Abstract
This paper describes a project carried out by the German National Library, the University and State Library Sachsen-Anhalt in Halle and Semantics GmbH Aachen to establish routines of persistent identification for individual pages of web publications in order to enable and facilitate reliable and long-term valid citation practices for the academic community. The project originated in a pilot project to digitise approximately 10,000 German imprints from the seventeenth century comprising altogether about 600,000 pages, which had to be completed within two years. The material of the ‘Ponickau Collection’ had been catalogued in the German national bibliography of seventeenth-century imprints (VD 17), which was enriched and turned into a virtual library by adding the digitised texts. This article investigates the means of presentation and indexing of digitised imprints in order to ensure their usability. It also sketches the workflow among the various partners involved in the process. The article 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 by the regional cataloguing cooperative Gemeinsamer Bibliotheksverbund (GBV). Special emphasis is given to questions of quality management; the quality is guaranteed by a combination of automated tools and intellectual control at various stages of the digitisation process.
Highlights
The project originated in a pilot project to digitise approximately 10,000 German imprints from the seventeenth century comprising altogether about 600,000 pages, which had to be completed within two years
The necessity to deal with this issue arose during the course of the work on the Ponickau project, which is one of the first four mass digitisation projects which was supported by the German Research Foundation within the VD16/VD17 programme line
The snid 1 stands for the digitised volumes of the Ponickau collection and other retrodigitisation projects, regional deposit literature receives snid 2, snid 3 is assigned to materials originating from in-house digitisation on demand, snid 4 denotes electronic dissertations and snid 5 marks documents digitised for the National Middle East and North Africa collection at the University and State Library Halle
Summary
A major challenge facing libraries in the years is the creation of an integrated information environment by facilitating access to digitised materials. In his book Information Foraging Theory Peter Pirolli, who researches human-computer interaction in order to assess how information environments can best be shaped for people, addressed one of the pitfalls of the interaction with information through technology when he said: ‘In an information-rich world, the real design problem to be solved is not so much how to collect and distribute more information but rather how to increase the rate at which persons can find and attend to information that is truly of value to them.’[1] He states: ‘...people prefer information-seeking strategies that yield more useful information per unit...People prefer, and select, technology designs that improve returns on information foraging’.2 These two statements highlight the general context of the URN Granular Project. The collection contains original editions of Martin Luther and his contemporaries, resources about the history of the universities of Leipzig, Wittenberg, Jena, Halle etc., and a lot of other regional occasional literature
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