Comments on: DLC involved in Greenstone pilot project in Southern Africa http://www.dlconsulting.com/blog/?p=10 News and articles about Digital Library Consulting, their products and services, including Veridian and Greenstone. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:47:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Stefan Boddie http://www.dlconsulting.com/blog/?p=10&cpage=1#comment-7 Stefan Boddie Mon, 08 Oct 2007 20:32:50 +0000 http://www.dlconsulting.com/blog/?p=10#comment-7 <p>The METS/ALTO data (for the Papers Past collection) was sub-contracted to a third party, who use the docWORKS software from CCS in Germany (http://www.ccs-gmbh.de/). We work with this third-party regularly, as well as a number of other data conversion companies.</p> <p>Unless you have an enormous amount of data to process (and even if you do) it probably makes sense for you to outsource the OCR work, rather than purchasing the software. Costs depend on the type and volume of materials, the accuracy required, and other factors. Generally speaking it doesn't cost significantly more to process data to METS/ALTO than any other format however.</p> The METS/ALTO data (for the Papers Past collection) was sub-contracted to a third party, who use the docWORKS software from CCS in Germany (http://www.ccs-gmbh.de/). We work with this third-party regularly, as well as a number of other data conversion companies.

Unless you have an enormous amount of data to process (and even if you do) it probably makes sense for you to outsource the OCR work, rather than purchasing the software. Costs depend on the type and volume of materials, the accuracy required, and other factors. Generally speaking it doesn’t cost significantly more to process data to METS/ALTO than any other format however.

]]> By: anson http://www.dlconsulting.com/blog/?p=10&cpage=1#comment-6 anson Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:06:31 +0000 http://www.dlconsulting.com/blog/?p=10#comment-6 what software did you use to create the mets/alto files? how much was the investment in third party software? what software did you use to create the mets/alto files? how much was the investment in third party software?

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