A truck with archival materials in front of the new building of the Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin

Digitisation projects for the Alice Salomon Archive

Records, photographs, glass plates, card indexes and postcards digitised to DDF standards.

A truck with archival materials in front of the new building of the Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin
Archival material outside the new ASH Berlin building. © Alice Salomon Archive. Source: Alice Salomon University Berlin.

The Alice Salomon Archive documents the history of social work, education in the field and key figures. In 2022 and 2024, BiblioCopy digitised a range of historic materials in accordance with the standards of the German Digital Women's Archive (DDF).

Project period
2022 and 2024

Collections
Records, photographs, glass plates and card indexes

Services
Scan, metadata, ALTO-OCR

Varied archival collections from a single provider

  • Digitisation of a historical personnel file including metadata creation and ALTO-OCR
  • Digitisation of historical files, photographs and glass plates
  • Digitisation of the pupil card index of the Verein Jugendheim Charlottenburg
  • Digitisation of historical photographs and postcards

The different originals require tailored capture methods and precise quality control. Consistent metadata then ensures that the digital copies can be found and reused reliably in the DDF context.

Preparation in line with DDF standards

The DDF requirements combine technical quality with consistent cataloguing. This allows unique sources on the history of education, the women's movement and social work to be preserved for the long term and made accessible digitally.

Glossary

Briefly explained

Glossary

Technical terms from our digitisation projects briefly explained.

ALTO-XML

Standardised XML format for OCR results. It stores recognised text together with its position and page-layout information.

DFG practical guidelines

Quality and procedural recommendations issued by the German Research Foundation for digitising cultural heritage.

FID

Specialised information services provide individual academic disciplines with specialist literature and digital information resources.

Goobi

Open-source software for managing, documenting and quality-assuring complex digitisation workflows. Goobi and Kitodo originated in workflow software developed at Göttingen State and University Library from 2004 and have been developed as separate projects since 2016.

IIIF

Open standards for providing and displaying images and metadata from different collections in a consistent way.

Kitodo

Open-source software suite for producing, managing and presenting digital copies in libraries and archives. Kitodo and Goobi share their origins in workflow software developed at Göttingen State and University Library from 2004 and have been developed as separate projects since 2016.

Metadata

Structured information about a digital copy, such as its title, shelf mark, creator, date, rights, file format and page order.

OCR

Optical Character Recognition: automated recognition of printed text in image files for full-text search and further analysis.

Pagination

Capture and assignment of printed or handwritten page numbers to individual image files.

Structural metadata

Information about the internal structure of a work, such as chapters, articles, plates, supplements or page ranges.

TIFF

Lossless image format, often used for high-resolution master files and long-term archiving.

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