1. DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania Bucharest Metropolitan Library
Baja, July 2010
Bucharest Metropolitan Library
Ileana Serbanescu
Head of Digitization Office
Digital Library Department

2. BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY
DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania
Bucharest Metropolitan Library, with an encyclopedic collection of about documents and with 34 branches all around the capital city, is the oldest and most prominent public library in Romania.

3. BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY
DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania
Beginning with 2007, Bucharest Metropolitan Library set up a program for digitizing and integrating the documents, that aims :
manuscripts, early imprints and rare books from heritage collections
collections of documents that form the background of community memory and history (postcards, posters, maps, microfilms, news journals, video and audio documents related to the past and the present of Bucharest, documents and bulletins published by the authorities, local communities, statistics)
collections of periodical publications, newspapers and revues
collections of documents with historic value
documents for secondary school students, according to school bibliographies requirements

4. BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY
DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania
In December 2007, there was signed the most important partnership agreement in the entire history of libraries in Romania, between:
Bucharest Metropolitan Library (the oldest and most important library in Romania) and
Romanian Academy Library (keeper of the unique heritage of written Romanian culture and, consequently, the only national library of Romania)
having the aim of digitizing all the national collections that define the image of Romania within cyberspace

5. From 2008 to 2010 additional partnerships were signed with:
BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY
DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania
From 2008 to 2010 additional partnerships were signed with:
Romanian Literature Museum – for digitizing manuscripts
Armenian Church Library – for digitizing manuscripts and early imprints
South-Eastern European Studies Institute – for digitizing periodical publications and other documents

6. In order to achieve these objectives and to ensure both
BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY
DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania
In order to achieve these objectives and to ensure both
- quality of the digitized documents to the standards imposed by the European Commission on digital scanning and processing
- compatibility with other libraries participating in the EUROPEANA project, MLB started a program for purchasing performing equipment and software:
BML set up a professional department for the digital library and started a program for purchasing performing equipment and software
- professional scanners for bounded documents and large formats
computers and graphic stations
- servers and equipment for storage and archiving data (using UDO, Ultra Density Optical technology)
- specialized programs for digital processing, restoration of the scanned documents and OCR (such as i2S BookRestorer Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat, Abby Fine Reader)

7. 5 Scanners i2S CopiBook (3 RGB and 2 HD)
BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY
DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania
5 Scanners i2S CopiBook (3 RGB and 2 HD)
for digitizing bound documents of formats up to DIN A2/C with optical resolution ranging from 300 dpi up to 400 dpi

8. 1 Suprascan A0 for digitizing large formats and bound documents
BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY
DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania
1 Suprascan A0 for digitizing large formats and bound documents
DIN A0/E format and beyond up to 870 mm (34.2”) (h) x 1250 mm (49.2”) (w), with optical resolution ranging from 150 dpi up to 800 dpi

9. BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY
DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania
Suprascan A1 II for digitizing documents, books and any type of bound works up to a maximum of DIN A1/D (2×A2), with resolution ranging from 200 dpi up to 800 dpi

10. TIFF uncompressed files are processed with professional applications
BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY
DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania
TIFF uncompressed files are processed with professional applications
Uploaded files format are for now JPG, JP2 and PDF

11. After a long and solid analysis, that took into account :
BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY
DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania
After a long and solid analysis, that took into account :
the standards imposed by the international community of digital libraries,
the good practice of it and compatibility with applications used by digital libraries all over the world,
Bucharest Metropolitan Library chose Exlibris DigiTool digital assets management system for Dacoromanica digital library project, joining the large community of DigiTool users

12. On September 20th 2009 we had online:
BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY
DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania
Some numbers about the project:
Start massive uploading in august 2009, in order cu celebrate September 20th, a historic moment for Bucharest, the 550th anniversary since the city was first mentioned in an official written source, in 1459, by Prince Vlad Tepes (The Impaler).
On September 20th we had online:
500 books titles, early imprints, uploaded in complex objects, aprox pages
postcards in a single itemized collection, in JP2 format and complex objects
10 titles, uploaded in searchable PDF format, aprox pages
End of December 2009 we had online:
720 books titles, early imprints, uploaded in complex objects, aprox pages
860 postcards in a single itemized collection, in JP2 format and complex objects
110 titles, upload in searchable pdf format, aprox pages
End of June 2010, we had online:
1040 books titles, early imprints, uploaded in complex objects, aprox pages
860 postcards in a single itemized collection, in JP2 format and complex objects
2450 titles, upload in searchable pdf format, aprox pages

13. People working on this project
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DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania
People working on this project
From August to September 2009
6 scanner operators in one shift
4 librarians for restoring and digital processing output file
3 librarians for metadata
2 system librarians for uploading
1 administrator
from Ex-Lh. team, a strong support and involvement into preparation and upload process
From January to June 2010, under economical restrictions:
10 scanner operators in two shifts
5 librarians for restoring and digital processing output file
1 system librarians for uploading

14. BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY
DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania
Today, DACOROMANICA contains uploaded pages under 9 major collections and 110 sub-collections from already scanned

15. Collections structure:
BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY
DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania
Collections structure:
Early printed books - Romanian imprints between 1508 & 1830
Romanian cultural heritage , old books, in several languages, Romanian in Cyrillic and Latin alphabet, Latin, Slavonic/Slavic, Hungarian, German, Greek, Russian and Arab.
Trajan's Column – the monument and era  
Books and in future, pictures about History of Roman Empire, Dacia and Trajan's Dacian Wars
Images of Bucharest
with several thematic sub-collection, available only two,
Cişmigiu Garden
General Romanian Exhibition from 1906
School Literature
Texts according with secondary and high school mandatory bibliographies for Romanian literature.
Armenian cultural heritage
Early printed books - Armenian imprints between 1351 & 1830
Foreign Travelers thru Romanian land
Romanian and oriental romanity history

16. BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY
DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania
Early printed books - Romanian imprints between 1508 & 1830 Collection 1069 objects online
Uploaded as complex objects, showing, page by page, in facsimile, the original photographic images faithfully reproduced.

17. BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY
DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania

18. BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY
DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania

19. BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY
DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania

20. Early printed books - Armenian imprints between 1351 & 1830 Collection
BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY
DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania
Early printed books - Armenian imprints between 1351 & 1830 Collection
Uploaded as complex objects, showing, page by page, in facsimile, the original photographic images faithfully reproduced.

21. BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY
DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania

22. BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY
DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania

23. BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY
DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania

24. BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY
DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania

25. Romanian and oriental romanity history Collection – 82 objects online
BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY
DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania
Romanian and oriental romanity history Collection – 82 objects online
Uploaded as searchable PDF files, reduced size, for faster display

26. BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY
DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania

27. School Literature Collection – 2322 objects online
BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY
DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania
School Literature Collection – 2322 objects online
Uploaded as searchable PDF files, reduced size, for faster display

28. BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY
DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania

29. Bucharest in images Collection - 124 objects online
BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY
DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania
Bucharest in images Collection objects online
JP2 file format for higher quality display

30. BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY
DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania

31. BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY
DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania

32. DACOROMANICA use for now only Dublin Core Metadata Scheme
BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY
DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania
DACOROMANICA use for now only Dublin Core Metadata Scheme

33. Uploading and managing large files in PDF format
BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY
DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania
Challenges and unresolved issues while learning and working with DigiTool:
Uploading and managing large files in PDF format
Linking volumes
Provide metadata for separate items linked in a single complex object
Managing XML files and METS thru Meditor
Handling different manifestations for the same title
…….

34. For this year, DACOROMANICA goals are:
BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY
DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania
For this year, DACOROMANICA goals are:
Uploading pages
Uploading old periodical publications
Uploading mp3 files from digitized old vinyl discs

35. www.dacoromanica.ro Köszönöm! Várjuk a oldalon!
BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY
DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania
Köszönöm!
Várjuk a
oldalon!