DACOROMANICA
Digital Library of Romania
Baja, July 2010
Bucharest Metropolitan Library
Ileana Serbanescu
Head of Digitization Office
Digital Library Department
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Bucharest Metropolitan Library,
with an encyclopedic collection
of about 1.500.000 documents
and with 34 branches all around
the capital city, is the oldest and
most prominent public library in
Romania.
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Beginning with 2007, Bucharest Metropolitan Library set up a
program for digitizing and integrating the documents, that aims :
manuscripts, early imprints and rare books from heritage collections
collections of documents that form the background of community memory
and history (postcards, posters, maps, microfilms, news journals, video and
audio documents related to the past and the present of Bucharest,
documents and bulletins published by the authorities, local communities,
statistics)
collections of periodical publications, newspapers and revues
collections of documents with historic value
documents for secondary school students, according to school
bibliographies requirements
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In December 2007, there was signed the most important partnership
agreement in the entire history of libraries in Romania, between:
Bucharest Metropolitan Library (the oldest and most important
library in Romania) and
Romanian Academy Library (keeper of the unique heritage of
written Romanian culture and, consequently, the only national library of
Romania)
having the aim of digitizing all the national collections that define the
image of Romania within cyberspace
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From 2008 to 2010 additional partnerships were signed with:
Romanian Literature Museum – for digitizing manuscripts
Armenian Church Library – for digitizing manuscripts and early
imprints
South-Eastern European Studies Institute – for digitizing
periodical publications and other documents
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In order to achieve these objectives and to ensure both
- quality of the digitized documents to the standards imposed by the
European Commission on digital scanning and processing
- compatibility with other libraries participating in the EUROPEANA
project, MLB started a program for purchasing performing equipment
and software:
BML set up a professional department for the digital library and started a
program for purchasing performing equipment and software
- professional scanners for bounded documents and large formats
computers and graphic stations
- servers and equipment for storage and archiving data (using UDO,
Ultra Density Optical technology)
- specialized programs for digital processing, restoration of the
scanned documents and OCR (such as i2S BookRestorer Adobe
Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat, Abby Fine Reader)
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5 Scanners i2S CopiBook (3 RGB and 2 HD)
for digitizing bound documents of formats up to DIN
A2/C with optical resolution ranging from 300 dpi up to
400 dpi
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1 Suprascan A0 for digitizing large
formats and bound documents
DIN A0/E format and beyond up to 870 mm (34.2”)
(h) x 1250 mm (49.2”) (w), with optical resolution
ranging from 150 dpi up to 800 dpi
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Suprascan A1 II for digitizing documents,
books and any type of bound works up to a
maximum of DIN A1/D (2×A2), with resolution ranging
from 200 dpi up to 800 dpi
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TIFF uncompressed files are processed with
professional applications
Uploaded files format are for now JPG, JP2
and PDF
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After a long and solid analysis, that took into account :
the standards imposed by the international community of digital libraries,
the good practice of it and compatibility with applications used by digital
libraries all over the world,
Bucharest Metropolitan Library chose Exlibris DigiTool digital assets
management system for Dacoromanica digital library project, joining
the large community of DigiTool users
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Some numbers about the project:
Start massive uploading in august 2009, in order cu celebrate September 20th,
a historic moment for Bucharest, the 550th anniversary since the city was first mentioned
in an official written source, in 1459, by Prince Vlad Tepes (The Impaler).
On September 20th 2009 we had online:
500 books titles, early imprints, uploaded in complex objects, aprox. 350.000 pages
800 postcards in a single itemized collection, in JP2 format and complex objects
10 titles, uploaded in searchable PDF format, aprox. 8.000 pages
End of December 2009 we had online:
720 books titles, early imprints, uploaded in complex objects, aprox. 680.000 pages
860 postcards in a single itemized collection, in JP2 format and complex objects
110 titles, upload in searchable pdf format, aprox.65.000 pages
End of June 2010, we had online:
1040 books titles, early imprints, uploaded in complex objects, aprox. 940.000
pages
860 postcards in a single itemized collection, in JP2 format and complex objects
2450 titles, upload in searchable pdf format, aprox.360.000 pages
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People working on this project
From August to September 2009
6 scanner operators in one shift
4 librarians for restoring and digital processing output file
3 librarians for metadata
2 system librarians for uploading
1 administrator
from Ex-Lh. team, a strong support and involvement into
preparation and upload process
From January to June 2010, under economical restrictions:
10 scanner operators in two shifts
5 librarians for restoring and digital processing output file
3 librarians for metadata
1 system librarians for uploading
1 administrator
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Today, DACOROMANICA contains 1.350.000 uploaded pages under 9
major collections and 110 sub-collections from 2.500.000 already
scanned
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Collections structure:
Early printed books - Romanian imprints between 1508 & 1830
Romanian cultural heritage , old books, in several languages, Romanian in Cyrillic and Latin
alphabet, Latin, Slavonic/Slavic, Hungarian, German, Greek, Russian and Arab.
Trajan's Column – the monument and era
Books and in future, pictures about History of Roman Empire, Dacia and Trajan's Dacian Wars
Images of Bucharest
with several thematic sub-collection, available only two,
Cişmigiu Garden
General Romanian Exhibition from 1906
School Literature
Texts according with secondary and high school mandatory bibliographies for Romanian literature.
Armenian cultural heritage
Early printed books - Armenian imprints between 1351 & 1830
Foreign Travelers thru Romanian land
Romanian and oriental romanity history
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Early printed books - Romanian imprints between 1508 & 1830 Collection
1069 objects online
Uploaded as complex objects, showing, page by page, in facsimile, the original photographic images faithfully
reproduced.
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Early printed books - Armenian imprints between 1351 & 1830 Collection
Uploaded as complex objects, showing, page by page, in facsimile, the original photographic
images faithfully reproduced.
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Romanian and oriental romanity history Collection – 82 objects online
Uploaded as searchable PDF files, reduced size, for faster display
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School Literature Collection – 2322 objects online
Uploaded as searchable PDF files, reduced size, for faster display
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Bucharest in images Collection - 124 objects online
JP2 file format for higher quality display
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DACOROMANICA use for now only Dublin Core Metadata Scheme
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Challenges and unresolved issues while learning and working
with DigiTool:
Uploading and managing large files in PDF format
Linking volumes
Provide metadata for separate items linked in a single complex object
Managing XML files and METS thru Meditor
Handling different manifestations for the same title
…….
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For this year, DACOROMANICA goals are:
Uploading 1.000.000 pages
Uploading old periodical publications
Uploading mp3 files from digitized old vinyl discs
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