Collection Creation

The America at War website was originally a joint creation of the Bibliographic Access Services department and Government Documents unit at the University of Richmond. It was established in 2003 as part of the University’s Digital Initiatives as a way to make valuable Government Documents resources held at the university available to a wider audience by placing them online.

The documents were scanned on a ScanPartner 620C using this process. The digital image was then processed with the Scansoft Omnipage Pro Optical Character Recognition (OCR) following this procedure. Once the image was created and the OCR completed the files were saved to the external hard drive and the archival TIFF images burned to DVDs using this process. The original collection was built using Endeavor's Encompass for Digital Collections.

The collection was identified as a candidate for migration to DLXS in the spring of 2007. Using the original OCR files and TIFF images, a team created TEI encoded XML documents, and derivative page images in the JPEG 2000 format. After ingesting the XML into DLXS for online delivery, the original TIFF images were uploaded to the University’s Data Center for archival purposes.

Hardware Used

Scanner - Fujitsu ScanPartner 620C

PC - Gateway E-400, IBM ThinkCentre

External Storage Device - Iomega 120GB Firewire drive

Software Used

Optical Character Recognition - Scansoft Omnipage Pro 120

Image Display - Contribute 2 Flashpaper

Digital Repository - Encompass by Endeavor, DLXS

Project Personnel

Content

Mark Burdette, Rachel Frick, Keith Weimer

Web Design

Mark Burdette, Chris Kemp, Jeff Peil

Metadata, Cataloging

Chris Kemp, Leigh McDonald

Encompass Design and Content

Tom Campagnoli, Nancy Woodall

DLXS Design and Content

Chris Kemp

Scanning and OCR

Andrew Fulwider, Stanton Leddy, Jeff Peil, Cara Schmidt

TEI XML Markup

Grant Dickie, Craig Green, Kate Nguyen, Gleb Shmatko