Digitising historical publications

Claire Stent

Statistics New Zealand

Month Year

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Why digitise?

Preservation

Security

Efficiencies

Usage

National Enduring Statistical Resource

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What should we digitise?

New Zealand Official Yearbook

Census if any money left over

19th Century historical publications if possible

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Who is our audience?

Researchers

General public

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Why digitise?

Efficiency gains for Statistics New Zealand staff and researchers

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Planning: Outputs

PDFs

TIFF

XML

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Planning: Who will do it?

Too much to do in-house

RFP

NZMS

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Planning

Multiple outputs to ensure future-proof

Outsource to ensure work completed

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Process

Scan microfiche Create TIFFs Statistics NZ

Create PDFs

XML files

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Process

Scan microfiche Create TIFFs Statistics NZ

Create PDFs

XML files

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Process

Scan microfiche Create TIFFs Statistics NZ

XML files

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People

Familiarity with scanning historical documents• NZMS

XML expertise• Aptara• NZMS• Statistics New Zealand

Pragmatism/Innovation

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Demo

1894

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Questions

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Graphics from

David Armano, Visual thinking Archive

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7855449@N02/sets/72157606844282993/with/6351245432/

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