Nahaufnahme eines geöffneten historischen Buches mit sichtbarem Buchrücken und Seitenkanten

DFG project ‘Latin American Cultural Journals’

Around 975,000 pages with Goobi integration and pagination.

Exterior of the Ibero-American Institute in Berlin
The Ibero-American Institute in Berlin. Photo by Peter-Paul Weiler / IAI. Source: IAI press section.

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.

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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