books are disassembled and sheet fed into a high speed scanner if they are the third copy the library holds and they are then thrown away. The pages are scanned to TIFF at 400 dpi, 24-bit colour. Docworks software from CCS is used to do the structural analysis and OCR'ing and the image is converted to JPEG2000 which is the preservation copy ingested into the digital repository. They do not create or store access copies on ingest. These are created on the fly. The TIFF image is thrown away. 1000 books per week are processed in this way. They are planning to seek additional copies from other libraries so they can process more books in this way (ie destroy the book). They hope to be able to digitise 50% of the national? collection this way.
They also have 6 I2S flatbed scanners used for intact books. There are 2 at Mo and 4 in Oslo. They are using manual page turning and average 10 volumes per scanner per day.
Their ultimate goal is to digitise their entire collection by 2018 with 60% done by 2010 - all formats including newspapers, handwritten manuscripts, posters and leaflets, radio, audio and film
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