Transcript New Life to Old Serials: Digitizing Back Volumes

New Life to Old Serials:
Digitizing Back Volumes
Wendy C. Robertson
The University of Iowa Libraries
http://ir.uiowa.edu/lib_pubs/78/
Introduction
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Are your institutions
digitizing text?
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What do you read on a screen?
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Why?
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As the traditional collectors and
preservers of content, libraries
should ensure their content
remains accessible to a wide
audience.
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Selection
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Do you have the rights
to digitize the item?
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http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm
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http://www.copyright.gov/records/
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http://collections.stanford.edu/copyrightrenewals/
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http://www.hathitrust.org/bib_rights_determination
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http://www.hathitrust.org/rights_database
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A serial may be partially in
the public domain.
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http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/cce/firstperiod.html
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/cce/
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Has the title already been digitized?
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http://www.oclc.org/digitalregistry/
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Does a digitized title have gaps?
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Assess your priorities to focus
digitization time appropriately.
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Seek partners so that an entire run
can be digitized.
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Scanning prioritized by book
condition can yield a motley
assortment of volumes.
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Scanning
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Digitization might be done for access
or preservation.
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Standards and best practices are
widely available.
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U Michigan naming
U Iowa naming
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Presentation
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Think about how content
will be used.
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Content is often presented as a
bound object, not as a logical unit
related to other materials.
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Creating PDFs
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Do the best OCR (Optical Character
Recognition) that you can afford.
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Consider accessibility and mobile
access when create PDFs.
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Not clearscan – text less crisp
Letters stretch when reflow chosen
Default OCR option
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Clearscan
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several "thousand dollars. [When]. Mother announced to her . her intentions of marrying father
after she came of age .'. . the stepmother skipped out with all the funds, simply vanished, and
mother was left penniless.,, 1 This itiformation was most welcome, for I had been able to say
very little, in my edition of Mattie's letters some years earlier, about her life before she married
into the Whitman family, and could only speculate on what was here confirmed: that she had
been an orphan whose connections with kin had been largely if not entirely severed. 2 The
interview in which this small but helpful revelation comes.is the most interesting part of the
little-noticed Fansler' Collection of Whitman materials at Northwestern University.3 The fortyeight page ha􀂍dwritten 'transcript, supplemented by a number of Miss Jessie's letters to the
Adding tags & soft hyphens
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http://trove.nla.gov.au/
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PDF reflow & soft-hyphens with Goodreader
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Examples
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Random selection of
volumes shown as
related (v.3, 17 & 38)
Google books
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Random items
not necessarily
in same series
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Contents may list articles
but has OCR problems
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Search may display more information
than book page
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HathiTrust - http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008162447
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http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000055609
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Internet Archive
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http://illinoisharvest.grainger.uiuc.edu/collections.asp?ctype=digibk
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http://welshjournals.llgc.org.uk/browse/
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CONTENTdm
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http://content.lib.utah.edu/u?/dialogue,45
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Digital Commons
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Open Journal Systems
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D-Space
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Unstructured web page
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A Few More Things…
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Split content into articles if feasible,
especially if an article is
the reading unit.
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Ensure the PDF can be cited in
isolation.
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Request an ISSN.
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Pay attention to title changes.
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Conclusion
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Be involved with your local
digitization to bring a serials
perspective.
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Resources
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• Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the
United States http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicd
omain.cfm
• U.S. Copyright Office http://www.copyright.gov/records/
• Stanford's Copyright Renewal Database http://collections.stanford.edu/copyrightrene
wals/bin/page?forward=home
• Automated Bibliographic Rights
Determination http://www.hathitrust.org/bib_rights_determi
nation
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• HathiTrust Rights Database http://www.hathitrust.org/rights_database
• Smith, Kevin. Copyright Risk and Reward in
Mass Digitization. Presented at ARL annual
meeting, May 2011.
http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/mm11sp-smith.pdf
• Ockerbloom, John Mark. The Next Mother
Lode for Large-scale Digitization? Historic
Serials, Copyrights, and Shared Knowledge.
Presneted at Digital Library Federation Spring
Forum. Apr. 2006.
http://works.bepress.com/john_mark_ockerbl
oom/5/
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• First copyright renewals for periodicals
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/cce/first
period.html
• Information about the Catalog of Copyright
Entries
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/cce/
• DLF/OCLC Registry of Digital Masters http://www.oclc.org/digitalregistry/
• Northeast Document Conservation Center.
Reformatting. Preservation and Selection for
Digitization http://www.nedcc.org/resources/leaflets/6Ref
ormatting/06PreservationAndSelection.php
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• PREMIS (Preservation Metadata Maintenance
Activity)
http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/
• NARA’s Technical Guidelines for Digitizing
Archival Materials for Electronic Access http://www.archives.gov/preservation/technic
al/guidelines.pdf
• DLF’s Benchmark for Faithful Digital
Reproductions of Monographs and Serials http://old.diglib.org/standards/bmarkfin.htm
• University of Michigan DLPS Digitization
specifications http://www.hathitrust.org/documents/UMDigi
tizationSpecs20100827.pdf
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• ABBYY FineReader
http://finereader.abbyy.com/
• Omnipage http://www.nuance.com/forbusiness/byproduct/omnipage/index.htm
• OCRopus
http://code.google.com/p/ocropus/
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Thank you!
Questions?
[email protected]
http://ir.uiowa.edu/lib_pubs/78/
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