UBKINSNK02 Digitization and long-term protection of collections 1

Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Winter 2023
Extent and Intensity
10/4/2. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Taught partially online.
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Dušan Katuščák, PhD. (seminar tutor)
prof. PhDr. Dušan Katuščák, PhD. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Dušan Katuščák, PhD.
Institute of The Czech Language and Library Science – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Prerequisites
The condition for registration is the successful acquisition of knowledge about the field within the compulsory subjects of previous studies
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 course introduces students to the issue of digitization of books and partially digitization of audio and video recordings. On the one hand, the author of the teaching text relies on his own long-term experience in the field of digitization and, on the other hand, on the most important European recommendations and best practices. Large digitalization projects began to develop in the world in the late 1990s and immediately after 2000. At that time, manuals and practical recommendations were created, which were applied in many digitization projects. The main sources used include experience and findings from the copy of the large national project Digital Library and Digital Archive, which was financed from structural funds and whose author is also the author of this text. Students will get to know the message of the Comité des sages of the Europeana project. Practical standard recommendations are presented in accordance with the rules that were developed in the Minerva project. Attention is paid to individual phases of the digitization project, infrastructure, metadata, key technological operations such as material selection, scanning, data formats, conservation procedures, sterilization, deacidification, freeze-drying, issues of digital repositories Islandora, DSpace, Invenio, Grenstone, as well as financial and legal issues of making digital content available. Emphasis is placed on the process of planning and implementation of the digitization process. Important Czech digitization projects (Manuscriptorium, Kramerius) are also analyzed. In the second part, students are introduced to the issue of long-term preservation of digitization results with an emphasis on the issue of migration of digital contents to new carriers. The exercises are focused on practical testing of the entire digitization process, starting with the assessment of the quality of the documents, through scanning, OCR and error correction, to storage on the carrier. The subject also includes an excursion to an important Digitization workplace.
Learning outcomes
The student is able to scan written documents using a scanning device - has knowledge of the basic formats of captured images - acquire basic knowledge about digitalization projects in Europe - is able to use the Czech Digital Library and Europeana - has practical skills with working with some digital repository (Kramerius, Tainacan...) - understand the basic methods of long-term archiving of digital content and document protection
Syllabus
  • CContents 1 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE DIGITALIZATION PROCESS IN THE FIELD OF LIBRARIES 1.1 DEFINITION OF DIGITALIZATION AND BASIC TERMS 1.2 COMPLEXITY OF DIGITALIZATION 1.3 BASIC CONCEPTS 1.4 SIGNIFICANCE OF DIGITALIZATION 1.5 BENEFITS OF DIGITALIZATION IN PRACTICE 1.6 DIGITALIZATION POLICY, PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS. EUROPE AND THE WORLD 2 STRATEGIC ASPECTS OF THE DIGITALIZATION PROCESS 2.1 GENERAL GOALS OF THE DIGITALIZATION STRATEGY. MINERVA 2.1.1 Europeana (Comité des Sages). The position of the European Union. 2.1.2 Ensuring broad access to digitized publicly available materials and their use 2.1.3 Digitization incentives 2.1.4 The role of Europeana 2.1.5 Guaranteeing the sustainability of digitized resources 2.1.6 Sustainability 2.1.7 PPP projects 3 PLANNING AND PREPARATION OF THE DIGITALIZATION PROCESS 3.1 DIGITALIZATION INTERNALLY OR EXTERNALLY 3.2 PLANNING AND PREPARATION OF THE DIGITALIZATION PROCESS IN THE LIBRARY 3.3 PRACTICAL RECOMMENDATIONS 3.4 THE MINERVA PROJECT AND THE LUND PRINCIPLES 3.5 LUND PRINCIPLES 3.6 MANAGERIAL PLANNING OF THE DIGITALIZATION PROJECT 3.7 JUSTIFICATION OF THE PROJECT 3.8 HUMAN RESOURCES 3.9 RESEARCH 3.10 THREATS. RISKS 3.11 SELECTION OF SOURCE MATERIAL FOR DIGITIZATION 3.12 DETERMINATION OF SELECTION CRITERIA 3.12.1 Selection according to criteria 3.12.2 Preparation for digitization 3.13 HARDWARE 3.13.1 Scanners 3.13.2 Types of scanners 3.14 SOFTWARE 3.15 DIGITALIZATION PROCESS 3.15.1 Use of Scanners 3.15.2 Use of digital cameras/cameras 3.15.3 Software applications for optical character recognition (OCR) 3.16 METADATA (METADATA) 3.16.1 Metadata used to describe the subject (descriptive metadata) 3.17 COMPLIANCE STANDARDS FOR METADATA 3.17.1 Disclosure 3.18 IMAGE PROCESSING 3.18.1 Three-dimensional materials and virtual reality 3.19 ONLINE DISCLOSURE 4 TECHNOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF THE DIGITALIZATION PROCESS 4.1.1 Conversion 4.1.2 Source document attributes 4.1.3 Image quality 4.1.4 Resolution 4.1.5 Bit depth 4.1.6 Image enhancement processes 4.1.7 Compression 4.1.8 Used equipment and its performance 4.1.9 Operator quality 4.1.10 Recommendations for scanning (conversion, conversion) 4.2 CREATING A WORKING ENVIRONMENT FOR A DIGITAL IMAGING PROJECT 4.3 NAME AND IDENTIFICATION CONVENTIONS 4.4 EXAMPLES OF AVAILABLE OPEN-SOURCE REPOSITS FOR DIGITAL LIBRARIES 4.4.1 Islandora 8 4.4.2 DSpace 4.4.3 Invenio (CERN) 4.4.4 Greenstone 5 DIGITIZATION OF OLD PRINTS 6 LEGAL ASPECTS OF THE DIGITALIZATION PROCESS 6.1 LEGAL ASPECTS 6.2 COPYRIGHTS 6.3 PUBLISHING AND LICENSE AGREEMENTS 6.4 COPYRIGHT IN THE LIBRARY UNDER US AND AUSTRALIAN LAW 6.4.1 Practical example 6.4.2 Dispensation with formal permission 6.4.3 Creation of copyright 6.4.4 Copyright protection 7 PROCESSES BEFORE AND AFTER DIGITALIZATION (MAINTENANCE, PROTECTION) 7.1 CONSERVATION OF DOCUMENTS (CONSERVATION) 7.2 RESTORATION 7.3 INTEGRATION OF PRESERVATION AND DIGITALIZATION 7.3.1 Sterilization 7.3.2 Deacidification 7.3.3 Lyophilization 8 OPTICAL PATTERN RECOGNITION AND ERROR CORRECTION 8.1 OCR SOFTWARE 9 ACCESS TO DIGITALIZED WORKS 9.1 ISLANDORA 8 9.2 DSPACE 9.2.1 Invenio (CERN) 9.2.2 Greenstone 10 STRATEGIC PLANNING OF THE LONG-TERM PRESERVATION PROCESS OF DIGITAL WORKS 10.1 STORAGE AND ARCHIVING OF DATA 10.2 LONG-TERM ARCHIVING 10.3 SELECTION OF MEDIA 10.4 TYPES OF MEDIA 11 PROBLEMS TO BE SOLVED 11.1 MAIN BARRIERS IDENTIFIED IN EUROPE 12 KNOWN PROCEDURES FOR LONG-TERM PRESERVATION OF DIGITAL WORKS 12.1 SELECTION OF MEDIA 12.2 MIGRATION STRATEGIES 13 WORKING WITH ORIGINAL DIGITAL DOCUMENTS 13.1 HANDLING AND WORKING WITH ORIGINALS 13.2 MOVEMENT AND HANDLING OF ORIGINALS
Literature
Teaching methods
Lectures, exercises, illustrations, illustrative examples of best practice, student's own activities - scanning, conversions
Assessment methods
A written test consisting of 200 questions in the school's information system (is.slu.cz)
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught: every week.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 16 hod/sem.
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2021, Winter 2022, Winter 2024.
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