Dear Caroline
There are a number of solutions available that would achieve your aims - the choice is of which is the best fit to your digitisation workflow and cataloguing. Work is being done by TNA and Wellcome in this area, and David showed you
an early doors use of the Wellcome Player by ESCC. Chiefly, it starts with the digitisation process, and how you will store the multipage document structure, and whether you go down the route of standards such as METS / ALTO to build beyond
a simple file structure of a folder of pages within a volume.
This area is becoming critical within the Digital Preservation arena too, and TNA have documentation on their approach. One question is whether to store the indexable OCR’d data within, or without, the
imaged pages package; NLW’s Welsh Newspapers is a nice example of a IIIF approach with separate searchable text: http://newspapers.library.wales
PDFs produced from images that were of a high enough resolution to lower noise for OCR tend to be huge in size, so sub optimal for web delivery without post processing down in resolution the digital surrogate.
Also, have a look at some of the workflow overviews of https://www.intranda.com/en/digiverso/goobi/goobi-overview/ [1]
All the best
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James Grimster
Orangeleaf Systems Ltd
[1] I have no relationship with this company; Wellcome and a few others are using this system.
> On 21 Sep 2016, at 14:10, Jones, Caroline <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Well… kind of like that. But that is not linked from a catalogue search. For instance, I want to be able to search a catalogue of all your holdings to find that you have the Eastbourne Gazette for a certain date; then, from that catalogue, to link straight to the Gazette for that date.
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> Or, to give an example from our own holdings. A search of our online catalogue for ‘Wellingtonian’ [the school magazine] will, for instance, reveal that we have the Wellingtonian for 1990. However, there is no indication that this has been digitised. To find and search the digitised Wellingtonian for 1990, you have to go to a different part of the website and browse or search there.
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> I’m guessing that a search of, say, most university library catalogues would bring up books or articles which could then be directly accessed online, from those search results. So why don’t we do this for archives?
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> Sorry to keep banging on about this! My context is this: at present our cataloguing software and our digitisation programme are all owned/run by the same company. Our website does not deliver the ‘joined-up’ approach which I have described. I don’t know whether this software is capable of it, but at least if talking to the company, they would have full knowledge of both ‘sides’ of the material. However I am considering switching to a different software package for cataloguing, from a different provider, and would like to know whether this would have any effect on the ability to provide this kind of service some time in the future?
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> Thanks for your forbearance and all help!
>
> Caroline Jones
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> From: David Myers [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 21 September 2016 13:55
> To: Jones, Caroline <[log in to unmask]>; [log in to unmask]
> Subject: RE: 'Joined-up' websites: catalogue search results linked to digitised records
>
> Hi Caroline,
>
> Like this? - http://www.eastsussexww1.org.uk/eastbourne-gazette/
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>
> David Myers
> Systems Officer
> T: 01273 336446
> E: [log in to unmask]
> Archive Service - Monday, Tuesday alternative Wednesdays
> Record Management Service - Thursday, Friday alternative Wednesdays
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> Intranet:
> http://intranet.escc.gov.uk/helping/dataandrecords/recordsmanagement/Pages/centre.aspx
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> Internet:
> http://www.thekeep.info
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> http://www.eastsussex.gov.uk/leisureandtourism/localandfamilyhistory/esro/thekeep/default.htm
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> http://www.eastsussex.gov.uk/yourcouncil/about/keydocuments/recordsmgt/default.htm
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