We'll be at the American Library Association's Midwinter meeting at the Dallas Convention Center beginning 20 January 2012. Frederick Zarndt and Jay Park will have Veridian and User Text Correction available for demonstration, and will be on site to answer questions about Veridian and your digitization plans. We'll also be giving away a new ...
Having been built on Greenstone, Veridian shares many of its capabilities. But it’s own unique development also makes it significantly different from Greenstone. This article explores the technical differences between Greenstone and Veridian, making it easier to decide which software better suits your digital collection.
When we released Veridian 3.0 in June, we also released the User Text Correction add-on module that empowers the users of a newspaper collection to correct poor OCR. The University of California Riverside was the first customer to install UTC on a live newspaper collection on August 22nd. We've monitored the collection closely ...
I just came across this video made by Sally Pewhairangi, a library project manager here in New Zealand. We're proud of our Kiwi culture, both the libraries and the rugby! Sally's original blog post is at Finding Heroes, and contains more information about the video... she can also be ...
When the National Library of New Zealand first put its collection of digitized newspapers online, it did so as images alone, without full text searchability. The site was popular, but not perfect. Wanting to improve the site, NLNZ further processed its collection to include OCR processing, which attempts to extract the letters, and words, ...
Selecting materials to digitize is not always cut and dry. There are rules, but the rules are not firm, and not everyone selects materials the same way.”~Jill Hurst-Wahl
Even though there’s no set formula or equation to follow in making decisions about how to select materials from your collections to digitize, there are some general ...
In my meanderings on the web this morning, I ran into this definition of the sometimes elusive digital library.
A digital library is a library in which collections are stored in digital formats (as opposed to print, microform or other media) and accessible by computers. Library content may be stored locally, or accessed remotely via ...
The California Digital Newspaper Collection produced another excellent tutorial explaining how to correct poor OCR text in the CDNC.
Regardless of whether you’re digitizing historic newspapers or a collection of born-digital illustrations, building a digital library involves three essential components. Matched well, these 3 components provide access to your collection and deliver value to your library patrons.
The California Digital Newspaper Collection has produced and published some excellent guides on how to use Veridian. All the guides, including searching and now text-correction, can be seen on the CNDC Help page.
In this video, Steve Anderson shows how to navigate Veridian.
Today, I ran across an announcement on the University of Houston Downtown Library’s blog stating that patrons will need to register at the University’s ARTstor Digital Library before being allowed to download any of the images in the collection.