Digitalisierung von Drucken des 17. Jahrhunderts an der Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Halle

Abstract

A major challenge facing libraries in the next years is the creation of an integrated information environment by facilitating the access to digitized materials. In order to safeguard broad information supply, institutions increasingly rely on methods of mass digitization. This paper will give an introduction to a pilot study carried out at the University and State Library Saxony-Anhalt in Halle and supported by the German Research Foundation. It deals with the digitization of approximately 10.000 German imprints of the seventeenth century containing altogether about 600.000 pages, which have to be digitized within two years. The material of the Collection Ponickau has been catalogued in the German national bibliography of se venteenth century imprints (VD 17), which shall thus be enriched and turned into a virtual library by adding the digitized texts. The paper discusses aspects of public-private partnership, It investigates the means of presentation and indexing of digitized imprints in order to ensure their usability. It also sketches the workflow among the various partners involved in the process. The paper highlights the application of Visual Library, which contains various tools for automated creation of metadata, the implementation of persistent identifiers (URN) and the automated enrichment of catalogue entries within the regional cataloguing cooperative Gemeinsamer Bibliotheksverbund (GBV). Special emphasis is given to questions of quality management, which is both guaranteed by a combination of automated tools and intellectual control at various stages of digitization and indexing processes.