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Case studies

Selected digitisation projects for libraries, archives, museums, foundations and cultural institutions.

A selection of institutions with which we have delivered complex digitisation projects in recent years. Each case study links to a project page with its scope, results and further information.

Planning a similar project? We can advise you on collection care, quality standards, OCR, metadata and delivery into your digitisation workflow.

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.

BiblioCopy

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