Managing the Digitization of Large Press Archives
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The Bibliotheca Alexandrina serves as a center for knowledge dissemination, cultural dialogue, and a digital age resource, housing millions of books and over 230,000 Arabic books online. The library collaborates with CEDEJ to digitize an extensive archive of press articles, comprising over 800,000 clips on various subjects in Arabic, English, and French. The ongoing project includes advanced indexing, data workflow control, and content access through features like a search engine and article viewer.
Managing the Digitization of Large Press Archives
- 2. The New Library of Alexandria Overview Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA)
- 3. Ø Center of excellence in the production and dissemination of knowledge Ø Place of dialogue, learning and understanding between cultures and peoples
- 4. Ø The World’s Window on Egypt Ø Egypt’s Window on the World Ø Instrument for Rising to the Challenges of the Digital Age Ø Center for Dialogue Between Peoples and Civilizations
- 5. Not just a Library of Books but rather a vast cultural and scientific complex
- 6. A library that can accommodate millions of books
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- 17. 17 More than 230,000 Arabic books are freely available online for Arabic readers worldwide
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- 24. Ø Project Overview Ø Collection Overview Ø Data Representation Ø System Workflow — DAF (Digital Assets Factory) — Cataloguing — Website § Solr search Engine § Article Viewer 24
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- 26. Ø Centre for Economic, Judicial, and Social Study and Documentation (CEDEJ) collaborated with Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) for the digitization of its archive of massive press articles collection Ø The project consists of multiple modules to: — Index the Press Archive Collection — Control data entry workflow — Digitize and process data — Catalogue and review Articles — Archive Web Publishing 26
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- 28. Ø Package of press archive — 800,000+ press clips varying between § Press § Reports — 500+ publishers — 60,000+ writers and reporters — 200 Different subjects § Economic, politics, social life, etc… — Archive Languages: § Arabic, English and French — Date range from 1966 to 2009 28
- 29. Ø Finished so far — 115,000 press clips varying between § Press § Reports — 200 publishers — 14,000 writers and reporters — 100 Different subjects § Economic, politics, social life, etc… — Archive Languages: § Arabic, English and French — Date range from 1966 to 2009 29
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- 31. Ø A list of packaged press archive is submitted to Bibliotheca Alexandrina to be scanned and catalogued Ø Source of data is a collection of boxes Ø The box is organized on the following hierarchy — Folder — File — Sub-File — Document Ø Document represents a single page of press 31
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- 46. Ø Based on Apache Lucene project v4.1 Ø SolrNet API is used to connect to Solr server Ø Features — Simple/Advanced search — Results Highlighting — Fields AutoComplete — Text search (Article Viewer) 46
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- 54. Ø Article viewer is used for previewing articles — It is one of multiple viewers developed at BA Ø Architecture — Server Side: RESTful services — Client Side: JavaScript using JSONP Ø Features — Image preview — Metadata preview — Text selection — Searching/highlighting — Zooming options: fit width/height 54
- 55. Ø Viewer Web Services — Metadata Web Service: § Retrieve article catalogue metadata § Return technical information (width, height, page count..) — Content Web Service: § Retrieve the image of each single page in the article applying scaling to custom width and height responsively § Return the selected text based on the user highlighted area — Search Web Service: § Perform the search using Solr engine APIs in the content of the articles § Highlight the matching phrases in the article image 55
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