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Education on digitisation and Europeana for small memory institutions within the AccessIT Plus project
1. Education on digitisation and Europeana
for small memory institutions within
the AccessIT Plus project
Adam Dudczak
maneo@man.poznan.pl
ACCESS IT plus final project meeting
2. ACCESS IT plus
„The aim of the Access IT plus
(http://accessitplus.eu) project is to help small
memory institutions to develop their digital
libraries and connect them to Europeana”
– Develop e-learning courses and help to create pilot
digital libraries in target countries
– Project partners from Croatia, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Albania, Serbia, Greece and UK
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3. ACCESS IT courses
• Reference ACCESS IT
(http://dl.psnc.pl/moodle) e-Learning courses
– “Digital repositories for small memory
institutions”
– “Cooperation with Europeana”
• Created mainly for people who work in small
memory institutions
• Originally developed in English
• Based on Moodle platform
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4. ACCESS IT courses (2)
• First release of the courses in October 2010,
second in the beginning of July 2012.
• Result of our work with institutions from
Albania, B+H, Croatia, Greece, Poland, Serbia,
Turkey and UK
ACCESS IT workshop in Veria (Greece)
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5. ACCESS IT courses (3)
• Original (English version) available to anyone,
free of any charge
• Content released under the terms of Creative
Commons BY-SA-NC License
– Attribution, Share alike, Non-commercial
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6. Course translation and adoption
• Each partner prepared versions of the courses
– Adoption of courses content to local conditions
– Gathering local DL community in one place
• Courses are available in Albanian, Croatian,
Greek, Polish, Serbian and Turkish
• Deployed in 7 countries so far.
• More 1 300 people graduated!
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9. Basic assumptions
• Course should be:
– Practical – only necessary theory illustrated with
practical examples
– Non-technical - it is for librarians, not for
computer programmers!
• Simple recipes for complex problems?
– Not always possible
• Use of free (Open Source if possible) tools
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10. Digital Repositories for small
memory institutions
• It consists of 9 topics divided in 29 modules
• By the end of each topic there is a quiz
• Course participants should have basic
knowledge about computers and Internet
• Structure of the course is wrapped around the
general digitisation workflow
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11. Digital Repositories for small
memory institutions
• During the course you will learn how to:
– Organize digitisation workflow
– Describe objects in order to make them more
accessible
– Prepare digital content for web delivery
– Promote your objects in the Internet
– Assure objects availability in long term
– Evaluate usability and accessibility of digital library
website
– Cooperate with other portals i.e. Europeana
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12. Digital Repositories for small
memory institutions
• In the course there are practical instructions
showing ways to:
– Perform graphical post-processing of the images,
– Scan and deliver large images over the network
– Use Optical Character Recognition to capture text
from images in order to make it searchable
– Create PDF and DjVu documents to deliver textual
documents
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13. Digital Repositories for small
memory institutions
• In the course there are practical instructions
showing ways to:
– Prepare audio and video material for online
presentation
– Convert audio files between various formats
– Publish digital audio-visual content in digital
library
– Get access to digital library - is it necessary to
create DL on you own?
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14. Digital Repositories for small
memory institutions
• Course shows how to publish digital objects
using DSpace, Greenstone and dLibra
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15. Digital Repositories for small
memory institutions
• Things which are not in the course:
– How to install and configure digital library
software
• Too many technical problems potentially
involved – too technical issue.
• In case of problems with this kind of things
use course Forum, ask other participants or
email us.
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16. Cooperation with Europeana
• It is much shorter it consist of 2 topics divided
into 14 modules
– First module groups non-technical things related to
Europeana
– More technical things were described in second topic
• By the end of each topic there is a quiz
• Course is dedicated to both repository managers
and people just want to know how Europeanarelated things
• For second part some technical skills might be
necessary
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17. Cooperation with Europeana
• During the course you will learn:
– Why and how Europeana was built
– Is it worth to cooperate with Europeana
– What benefits Europeana offers to end-users
– What is metadata aggregation and why it is so
important
– Basics of Europeana Semantic Elements (ESE) and
Europeana Data Model (EDM)
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18. Cooperation with Europeana
• During the course you will learn:
– How to normalize and convert your metadata to
Europeana Semantic Elements?
– How to pass your resources to Europeana?
• Course features also a few additional modules
which gives more insight into:
– Some more advanced issues related to metadata
aggregation
– Political background of Europeana
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19. Cooperation with Europeana
• Things which are not in the course:
– Setting up a metadata aggregator
• In case of problems with this kind of things
take a look at list of aggregation software
presented in
– “What should I do when there is no aggregator
near me?”
• As far as we know this is quite unique
initiative – no similar courses available.
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21. • All tools necessary to implement digitisation
workflow on a pendrive
– http://digitlab.psnc.pl
• Dedicated Linux distribution, based on Ubuntu
12.04 (32bit/64bit)
• You just need a computer which will be able to
boot from a pendrive
• Some exemplary documents included
• It is possible to install DigitLab as a normal system
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22. • DigitLab offers access to quite a few wellknown and widely used FLOSS tools
– Scan Tailor, GIMP, magicktailor, DjVuLibre,
gScan2PDF, ImageMagick, Tesseract
• Three (DSpace, dLibra and Greenstone) digital
libraries framework installed and ready to use
• MINT as a metadata aggregation tool
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24. Summary
• ACCESS IT plus courses are a comperhensive,
constantly updated source of knowledge
about digitisation and digital libraries
• DigitLab helps to implement recipes from the
courses in practice and it is a perfect solution
for both trainings and day-to-day work
• We are waiting for your feedback!
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