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Digitization of the JDC Archives

Shachar Beer, Acting Director, JDC Jerusalem Archives

Mary Haberle, Digitization Project Manager, JDC Global Archives

Presentation Overview

DIGITIZATION OF THE JDC ARCHIVES

1. Institutional Context for Digitization

2. Goals of Digitization

3. Scope of Digitization

4. Digitization Program Workflow

5. Quality Assurance Tools

6. Partnership with Judaica Europeana

Mission and History of JDC

Global Reach

Treasures from the Archives

Use of JDC Archives

Goals of Digitization

Scope of Digitization at JDC

Textual Collections

o Digitized material spans 1914 to 1989

o Grant 1: 1.8 million pages

o Grant 2: 600,000 pages

Names Index

o Transmission Bureau records and other lists of

genealogical value

o ~500,000 names indexed

Photograph Collection

o 57,000+ digitized

Oral History Recordings

o 325 hours

Text Collections Workflow Overview

PRESENTATION TITLE

Workflow: Scanning Microfilm

Partner: The Crowley Company in the U.S.

Workflow: Digitization

Partner: Digital Divide Data (DDD) in Laos

Compounding Images into Documents

Metadata Creation

Metadata Quality Control

Import XML Creation

Workflow: Import and Export

Partner: IDEA-ALM in Israel

Quality Assurance Tools

Partnership with Judaica Europeana

Thank you and stay in touch with us!

JDC Global Archives

Website: http://archives.jdc.org/

Facebook: http://facebook.com/jdcarchives

Shachar Beer

Acting Director, JDC Jerusalem Archives

ShacharB@jdc.org.il

Mary Haberle

Digitization Project Manager

mary.haberle@jdcny.org

Twitter @littleclamator

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