Title :
The processing of digitized works
Author :
Borbinha, José ; Gil, João ; Pedrosa, Gilberto ; Penas, João
Abstract :
This paper describes the processing of digitised works at the National Library of Portugal, as done in the scope of the National digital library initiate (BND). This comprises the normalization of the names of the images, the creation of technical metadata, image processing, OCR, indexing, and the creation of derived copies for preservation and copies for access in PNG, JPG, GIF, and PDF. The structural descriptions of all the objects are done in METS
Keywords :
digital libraries; indexing; meta data; optical character recognition; METS; OCR; digital library; digitized work; image processing; indexing; meta data; optical character recognition; IP networks; Image processing; Indexing; Optical character recognition software; Process control; Software libraries; Standards organizations; User interfaces; Workstations; XML; METS; OCR; best practices; digital publishing; digitization; image processing; structural metadata;
Conference_Titel :
Digital Libraries, 2006. JCDL '06. Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chapel Hill, NC
Print_ISBN :
1-59593-354-9
DOI :
10.1145/1141753.1141772