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DIGITIZATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE
CENTER FOR JEWISH ART
HEBREW UNIVERSITY
EVA / MINERVA 2013 Jerusalem
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Dantec and the Judaica Division 2
Dantec and the Judaica Division 3
Dantec was founded in 1986
Dantec is the vendor that executes Judaica digitization and meta data projects on behalf of Harvard’s Judaica division
Examples of projects:
Kol Israel – Rashut Hashidur
Central Zionist Archive (CZA)
Galil Project - Beit Yigal Alon
Jewish National Found (JNF)
and more
CJA Digitization Project 4
Project Overview 5
Joint Project of:
Center for Jewish Art
National Library of Israel
Harvard University (via Dantec)
Volumes:
Initial estimation ~180,000 items
To date ~ 201, 000 items (Jan-Aug 2013)
Still to be digitized ~ 35,000 items (pending CJA)
Project Scope 6
Raw material
Verity of Medias
Items’ storage & distribution
Negatives >>, Slides,
Photos, Blueprints,
Information sheets >>,
Research papers >>
Folders, Boxes,
Envelops, CDs
distributed in
many locations
Documented by
many researches
along many years,
using different
documentation
methods
Unified Objects
What is an Object? 7
An object is a library of items
that belong to same topic
Scanning accompanied by
technical excel
Allows effective documentation
process
Special sorting software
program sorts the scanned items
to the relevant object library
Scanning
Technical Documentation
Sort to objects
TIF,
JPG
Excel
SW
Project status in Harvard 8
~42,000 images already loaded to Harvard’s
system
The data will be loaded to Alef system in the
coming days
Thank You 9
Negative 10
Information Sheets 11
Research Papers 12
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