Digitization in libraries:

Capturing, structuring, providing access/publishing, and preserving digital information

 

 

If  wishing to try also samples from the full presentations, please, note that some of them are special formats, such as DjVu, JP2, or MrSID - to open the files, you must install additional  plug-ins or ActiveX components. You will find them at the following URLs:

 

www.lizardtech.com (for DjVu and MrSID)

www.luratech.com (for JP2)

 

These formats and other new emerging formats can be used also in the IrfanView freeware viewer - but as to MrSID, you will not find there the full functionality as expected (you will only see the image without the opportunity to handle it in a more sophisticated manner.

 

 

1st Day

 

 Introduction

 

  1. Introduction - our digitization programmes as a case study - full presentation

  2. Digital documents and libraries - communication, presentation, and behaviour - full presentation

  3. Analogue and digital:  two complementary worlds and their interdependence, characteristics and differences of representative objects - full presentation

Data – digital image

  1. of which it consists - full presentation
  2. digital colour and colour depth - full presentation
  3. how to deliver the digital image using decisive parameters, such as space resolution, colour depth, or most used - full presentation
  4. compression schemes and their latest developments - full presentation

 

 

2nd Day

Data – digital image - continuation

  1. Image formats and their application areas - full presentation
  2. Summary of utilization of imaging solutions - full presentation
  3. Image capture – devices, their application, and processing of data - full presentation
  4. Data - audio and video - full presentation

For more information go to http://digit.nkp.cz              

 

Metadata

  1. Objects from libraries, museums, and archives... - full presentation
  2. Metadata added value- full presentation
  3. Metadata management- full presentation
  4. Case analysis - a manuscript- full presentation

3rd Day

Metadata - continuation

    XML presentation

    XML modelling - describing, structuring, providing access - full presentation

    [More XML practical work with special software will be demonstrated - for concrete DTDs and samples go to http://digit.nkp.cz and study the DTDs]

Preservation and access  

    Storage and preservation of digital information  (preservation and access dilemma - solutions - existing problems) - full presentation

    Building digital world – from local to universal - full presentation