UBKKBK0052 Digitization in librarianship

Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Summer 2024
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Bc. Jindra Planková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor), prof. PhDr. Dušan Katuščák, PhD. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Bc. Jindra Planková, Ph.D.
Institute of The Czech Language and Library Science – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the theoretical and practical aspects of the digitization process. The course describes and practically demonstrates procedures in the creation and long-term preservation of digital collections, digitization technologies, standards, procedures for securing digital collections and the creation or retrieval of metadata of digital copies of documents.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, the student will be able to:
- identify and summarize important features of the main digitization methods;
- identify and describe current trends;
- practically process a digitized document.
Syllabus
  • Terminology
  • Digitization - definition and basic terminology, OCR technology, digitization as a process, data formats and their use in document digitization, metadata description.
  • Suitable image formats - traditional documents versus electronic documents, reasons for digitization, technical aspects of digital documents: resolution, color depth, compression, document storage technology
  • Standards, use and interpretation of metadata, basic formats of museum, archival and bibliographic description.
  • Quality control and evaluation - mechanisms ensuring the availability and readability of products
  • Creation of projects for digitization of cultural heritage, national and transnational strategies for digitization of cultural content, legislation regulating the processes of digitization and use of digitized documents, economics of digitization projects.
  • Digital libraries and their operation, software and hardware tools enabling the digitization process, examples of good practice in the Czech Republic and in the world.
  • Definitions of terms in the field of use
  • Protective reformatting
  • Possibilities of presentation of written cultural heritage
  • Copyright and digitization
  • User interface, User model
Literature
    required literature
  • Konvit, Milan. Digitalizace a veřejné knihovny. Opava, 2011. info
  • VOGELSANG, Michael. Contributions to economics: digitalization in open economies, theory and policy implications. Online. Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 2010. info
  • VOGELSANG, Michael. Digitalization in open economies: theory and policy implications. Online. Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 2010. info
    recommended literature
  • PUKANSKÁ, Katarína. 3D visualisation of cultural heritage: by using laser scanning and digital photogrammetry. Ostrava: Vysoká škola báňská - Technická univerzita, 2012, 107 pp. ISBN 978-80-248-3214-2. info
  • Business planning for digital libraries: international approaches. Online. Leuven: Universitaire Pers Leuven, 2010. info
Teaching methods
Theoretical preparation Seminar exercises Individual work
Assessment methods
Seminar work
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 8 hod/sem.
The course is also listed under the following terms Summer 2022, Summer 2023, Summer 2025.
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