Nahaufnahme eines geöffneten historischen Buches mit sichtbarem Buchrücken und Seitenkanten

DDF project for the archive of the Lette Association

Unique archival collections with metadata in accordance with DDF and i.d.a. requirements.

Title page of the 1916 commemorative publication marking 50 years of the Lette Association
‘50 Jahre Lette-Verein’, an anniversary publication from 1916. Public domain. Source: Digital German Women's Archive.

For the Lette-Verein archive, BiblioCopy digitised brochures, books, handwritten registers and unique archival documents in 2018/19. Cataloguing followed the requirements of the German Digital Women's Archive and the i.d.a. umbrella organisation.

Project period
2018/19

Collections
Brochures, books, registers and archival material

Services
Digitisation and DDF metadata

Sources on the history of education and women

The Lette-Verein is closely linked to the history of women's vocational education. Its archives document training, fields of work and institutional development since the 19th century.

  • Digitisation of a range of bound and loose originals
  • Detailed capture of handwritten registers
  • Metadata created in accordance with the DDF and i.d.a. specifications for service providers
  • Structured output for the portal and long-term archiving

Unique materials made discoverable online

Combining image digitisation with standardised metadata makes it possible to research individual documents in the context of the collection as a whole and present them through the DDF.

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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