NDF 2011: Digitising the New Zealand Official Yearbooks
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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Familiarity with scanning historical documents• NZMS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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Questions
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David Armano, Visual thinking Archive
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