Report on Ongoing Digitisation and Information System Design for VTM
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The document discusses the ongoing digitization efforts at the Archivio di Stato in Italy. It reports speeds for digitizing different types of documents and notes that archival description is the bottleneck. It proposes prioritizing documents that are more closely connected, such as fiscal declarations, to build the information system and indexes in parallel with digitization. Graphs show estimated progress in digitizing testaments and property surveys to build the corresponding indexes.
Report on Ongoing Digitisation and Information System Design for VTM
- 1. On-going digitisation at the Archivio di Stato: figures and logistics Giovanni Colavizza, Fabio Bortoluzzi EPFL
- 2. Goals of first phase (started June 2014) Test digitisation and archival description speeds Find a way to prioritise digitisation to build the Information System in parallel
- 3. Digitisation speeds: the upper bound 0 0.65 1.3 1.95 2.6 Unbounded documents Normal registers Oversized registers Avg. pages per minute
- 4. Archival description: the bottleneck ! Basic description: on “container” Detailed description: on contents, allows for indexing and search
- 5. Indexes of an Information System
- 6. Way forward 1: golden set Not all documents are the same in connecting to each other. Fiscal declarations (for taxation) Personal acts (contracts, testaments, etc.) State machinery (office holding)
- 7. Way forward 2: indexes How Venetians indexed this information?
- 8. Way forward 2: indexes How Venetians sorted this information? Real estate surveys Fiscal declarations Testaments
- 10. Updated scenario Redecime Indexes Redecime Testaments Indexes Testaments 0 300000 600000 900000 1200000 Est. pages done Est. pages to do Redecime Indexes Redecime Testament Indexes Testaments 0 450 900 1350 1800 days of work
- 11. On-going digitisation at the Archivio di Stato: figures and logistics Thank you Giovanni Colavizza, Fabio Bortoluzzi EPFL