Shachar Beer and Mary Haberle AJDC: The digitisation of the American Joint Distribution Committee Archive pdf file with the Presentation at the EVA/Minerva Jerusalem International Conference on Digitisation of Culture, Jerusalem, The Jerusalem Van Leer Institute, 12-13 November 2013 http://www.digital-heritage.org.il Presentations available at: http://2013.minervaisrael.org.il

1. Digitization of the JDC Archives
Shachar Beer, Acting Director, JDC Jerusalem Archives
Mary Haberle, Digitization Project Manager, JDC Global Archives

2. Presentation Overview
1. Institutional Context for Digitization
2. Goals of Digitization
3. Scope of Digitization
4. Digitization Program Workflow
5. Quality Assurance Tools
6. Partnership with Judaica Europeana
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3. Mission and History of JDC
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4. Mission and History of JDC
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5. Global Reach
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6. Global Reach
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7. Treasures from the Archives
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8. Use of JDC Archives
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9. Use of JDC Archives
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10. Goals of Digitization
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11. Scope of Digitization at JDC
Textual Collections
o Digitized material spans 1914 to 1989
o Grant 1: 1.8 million pages
o Grant 2: 600,000 pages
Names Index
o Transmission Bureau records and other lists of
genealogical value
o ~500,000 names indexed
Photograph Collection
o 57,000+ digitized
Oral History Recordings
o 325 hours
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12. Text Collections Workflow Overview
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13. Workflow: Scanning Microfilm
Partner: The Crowley Company in the U.S.
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14. Workflow: Digitization
Partner: Digital Divide Data (DDD) in Laos
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15. Workflow: Digitization
Compounding Images into Documents
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16. Workflow: Digitization
Metadata Creation
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17. Workflow: Digitization
Metadata Quality Control
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18. Workflow: Digitization
Import XML Creation
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19. Workflow: Import and Export
Partner: IDEA-ALM in Israel
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20. Quality Assurance Tools
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21. Partnership with Judaica Europeana
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22. Thank you and stay in touch with us!
JDC Global Archives
Website: http://archives.jdc.org/
Facebook: http://facebook.com/jdcarchives
Shachar Beer
Acting Director, JDC Jerusalem Archives
ShacharB@jdc.org.il
Mary Haberle
Digitization Project Manager
mary.haberle@jdcny.org
Twitter @littleclamator
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