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The Heritage Approach to the Digitisation of Historical Periodicals: From Historical Periodicals to a Digital Collection of Contents
Maja Šojat- Bikić
Sažetak
International, national, regional and local heritage communities are putting considerable professional efforts and resources into facilitating access to heritage resources with the application of digitaltechnologies. A wide range of motivation involved: from the wish to comprehend various types of resources to diverse value criteria, the need to address different groups of users and make contributions to various social and economic objectives. It can be stated that, because of technical, financial, communicational and professional constraints, in the selection of material for digitisation, various kinds of lists (inventories, registers, catalogues, indices and so on) tend to be privileged. The digitisation of contents is thus to a certain extent relegated. Digital contents give improved functionality of digital sources, through a rich and powerful interactivity and multimediality, the possibility of commercial use, and stimulus to the development of the digital contents industry. Historical periodicals, a primary heritage source, are an enormous challenge to digitisation processes. The content of historical periodicals is attractive material
for a number of reasons (historical, sociological, cultural, economic) and it is a genuine art, in the face of the ever-present financial and professional constraints, to create usable and searchable, as well as valuable in market terms, digital contents, affording end users a sufficiently realistic insight into the richness of periodical
sources. The paper presents the heritage approach to the digitisation of historical periodicals by which a digital collection of selected press articles is linked with other digital heritage collections. The author presents a model for the migration
of historical papers onto a portable digital medium, capable of linking selected articles into a relational structure. Migration is performed not only technologically; the printed original has to be processed in terms of structure and content,
to produce a thematically coherent digital collection of contents. From historical periodicals, an analogue heritage source, it is not just a digital surrogate that is
produced; rather, the papers, as primary source, are integrated with other thematically linked heritage sources. Giving the example of her own project for the digitisation of historical periodicals – the illustrated review Svijet (Zagreb, 1926-1936), the author shows some of the possibilities of integrating historical periodicals with various other heritage sources, the objective being to create a high-quality digital collection of contents, meant for the end users.
Ključne riječi
heritage; historical periodicals; digitisation; digital collection; user
Hrčak ID:
22984
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Datum izdavanja:
1.12.2006.
Posjeta: 3.756 *