Project HISPRA (Historical Pragensia)
Supported by the European Economic Area (EEA) and Norwegian Financial Mechanisms
Metropolitan Libraries Section ConferencePragueJune 1-6, 2008
Rare and historical prints in the MLP
MLP owns a collection of about 20.000 items of rare and historical documents
Items are not in a good physical condition
Reasons:
low quality paper from the 19th century
environmental influences
damage caused by use
One of the books, that need to be repaired before digitization
Digitalization in the MLP
the four rare documents from the MPL book stock were digitalized thanks to the foundation of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic
digitalization was provided by the National Library and private sector
too slow and expensive
the MLP was contacted to propose the project within the European Economic Area (EEA) and Norwegian Financial Mechanisms Programme in its priority area – conservation of European culturalheritage
The map of Prague from 1938 and its e-copy on the DVD
Project HISPRA
Goals the establishment of a digitalization workplace the digitizing of the documents from MLP’s collection
The elaboration of the project included budget planning precise time schedule list of documents selected for the digitalization PR
The project was approvedin autumn 2006
MLP received € 403.552 = 80% of the eligible costs
Financing from the Norwegian Funds
3 particular „activities“ (budget headings) Project Management Support of Sub-projects Services
Costs are presented quarterly in the Project Interim Report Transfers of finance between the budget headings are allowed
(up to 15% of each item) Project HISPRA was approved in Euros
Budget Project HISPRA
Project Management: € 065,500 Support of Sub-projects: € 227,800 Support: € 211,140 Total costs: € 504,440
Project Staffing1 head of the Digitization Department10 employees (2 full-time and 8 part-time) for the digitalization processHired staff: preparation of material for digitalization, IT support, economy of the project, administration
A workstation with a Minolta scanner in the Digitization Department of MLP
Document digitalization process document scanning images editing and indexing OCR export to the XML format creating of the administrative metadata importing of the data to digital library
IT equipment HW: 8 PCs, 2 scanners (Minolta, A3,
full color scale, Zeutschel, A2. grey scale) 2 servers, 1 data storage SW: Sirius – editing, OCR, XML,
Kramerius – digital library
One operator is able to process 15 pages per hour The face-up scanner Minolta PS5000
Tasks and objectives of the section
350,000 digitalized pages Online digital library First results shall be available in October 2008
Project publicity
Information poster Leaflets CDs or DVDs International conference
in 2010
Director of the MLP and Norwegian Ambassador to the Czech Republic
Thank you for your attention
Contact: Eva Merinska, [email protected]
A view into the digitization workplace of the MLP