For the DFG project ‘Latin American Cultural Journals’, BiblioCopy digitised around 975,000 pages from journals published between 1860 and 1930 for the Ibero-American Institute's Digital Collections from 2017 to 2021.
Project period
2017–2021
Scope
Approx. 975,000 pages
Services
DFG-compliant scanning, Goobi import and pagination
Large-scale project with exacting quality requirements
The cultural journals come from numerous Latin American countries and are important sources for literary, cultural, social and media history. The high page volume required a stable production workflow and rigorous quality control.
- Image digitisation in accordance with the DFG practical guidelines
- Importing the image files into the IAI's Goobi instance
- Page-level structural metadata through pagination
- Standardised file naming and continuous quality control
Scalable workflow for almost a million pages
Direct integration with the Goobi workflow closely linked digitisation, structuring and publication. The collection is now searchable through the IAI's Digital Collections.