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ELSE “ E-Learning and Software for Education” BUCHAREST

ELSE “ E-Learning and Software for Education” BUCHAREST. Dr: Emad El din Eid Literature Alzarka Academy for computer and business administration. Why Go Digital?. A digital library is a great way to make unique or hard to access materials available to a broader audience.

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ELSE “ E-Learning and Software for Education” BUCHAREST

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  1. ELSE “E-Learning and Software for Education”BUCHAREST Dr: Emad El din Eid Literature Alzarka Academy for computer and business administration

  2. Why Go Digital? • A digital library is a great way to make unique or hard to access materials available to a broader audience. • Historical photographs & documents • Rare manuscripts • Oversized items (maps, etc.) • Microfiche & Microfilm • It can provide a quick and efficient way to store and search large amounts of textual data • Conference papers • Legal documents • Technical reports

  3. Steps for creating a Digital Library Metadata Creation (Dublin Core+) Capture and Conversion Export to PDF, JPG, etc. Original Documents Data Migration Existing Electronic Files Ready To Search

  4. What are the components of the Horizon Digital Library Solution Digitization Service Lite- Scanning Horizon Web Editor Data Migration

  5. Data Migration What is it? • Conversion process that: • transfers digitized data to Horizon Digital Library Viewing format, PDF, DjVu, etc. • Links image and text files to metadata records Why is it important to customers? • Provides a method to consolidate existing digital information in to a single location • Creates the necessary Dublin Core metadata for each item • Can convert disparate file formats into standard formats for easy viewing

  6. Digitization Why is it important to customers? • Makes existing hardcopy materials available to a broader audience • Provides the ability to display rare or fragile materials • Provides the ability to easily search the text and images of material What is it? • Process that translates hardcopy data to a digital format. Steps may include: • Document preparation • Scanning • Image enhancement & OCR • Document types include not only photos but dissertations, rare manuscripts, local historical documents, oversized docs. microfiche etc.

  7. Web Editor Why is it important to customers? • Easy method to update or add information to the record • Provides the ability to enter data from a remote location What is it? • Provides the ability to complete or update Dublin Core Fields • Digital content is visible during the cataloging process

  8. Lite-Scanning OCR and Create Image/Text PDF Scan Load and Index Horizon Digital Library

  9. Batch Scanning and ConversionSoftware Integrated Production Digitization Solution

  10. Single Search Mechanism Why is it important to customers? • Increased patron satisfaction due to quicker results • Simple way to find the required information • Reduction in the patron’s reliance on library staff for help withsearches What is it? • Search is done through Horizon Information Portal • Patrons select the Digital Library in the same way they select other databases • A single search queries all selected databases and returns a results summary • Additional full-text searching of the digital documents is also available

  11. Full Text Searching Capabilities of Digital Documents • Adaptive PatternRecognition Processing • Fuzzy searching: fault tolerant • Specially enhanced for errors from OCR • No Cleanup of Documents • Most closely matching documents are returned first • Semantic Expansion • Matches users’ concepts to concepts in the full-text document database. • Natural language queries: easy-to-use • Semantic Networks can be tailored to vertical markets, subject domains • Alleviates tedious keyword indexing and abstracting of documents Query: moamar khadafiFinds: Moammar Kadhafi Moammar Gadhafi Moamer Kadhafi Moammar Qadaffi Query: Foreign TradeFinds: International Commerce External Business Business abroad Overseas markets

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