report on ongoing digitisation and information system design for vtm
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On-going digitisation at the Archivio di Stato: figures and logistics
Giovanni Colavizza, Fabio Bortoluzzi EPFL
Goals of first phase (started June 2014)
Test digitisation and archival description speeds
Find a way to prioritise digitisation to build the Information System in parallel
Digitisation speeds: the upper bound
0
0.65
1.3
1.95
2.6
Unbounded documents Normal registers Oversized registers
Avg. pages per minute
Archival description: the bottleneck
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Basic description: on “container” Detailed description: on contents, allows for indexing and search
Way forward 1: golden set
Not all documents are the same in connecting to each other.
Fiscal declarations (for taxation)
Personal acts (contracts, testaments, etc.)
State machinery (office holding)
Way forward 2: indexes
How Venetians sorted this information?
Real estate surveysFiscal declarations
Testaments
Updated scenario
Redecime Indexes
Redecime
Testaments Indexes
Testaments
0 300000 600000 900000 1200000
Est. pages done Est. pages to do
Redecime Indexes
Redecime
Testament Indexes
Testaments
0 450 900 1350 1800
days of work