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Requirements And Characteristics Of A Preservation Quality Information Management System, Gabrielle Michalek
Requirements And Characteristics Of A Preservation Quality Information Management System, Gabrielle Michalek
Gabrielle Michalek
This paper focuses on the requirements of an information management system that is designed to ensure the long term preservation of the information managed and delivered by that system. It is not an all inclusive list or description, but rather, an overview of the approaches and methodologies that have been used by the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries as we have built, developed, and now, acquired, information management systems that have the onerous task of supporting collections we have promised to keep in perpetuity.
The Qatar Heritage Rare Book Project: Digitization And Online Publication Of Treasures From The Arabian Gulf, Gabrielle Michalek
The Qatar Heritage Rare Book Project: Digitization And Online Publication Of Treasures From The Arabian Gulf, Gabrielle Michalek
Gabrielle Michalek
Abstract -- In October, 2006 the Qatar Foundation in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University began a Pilot project to digitize the Qatar Heritage Book Collection and make the collection available to the world. The Pilot project will make available online 300 rare materials and 5000 books from the general collection from the Heritage Library by May, 2007. This paper will describe how the project will address the practical problems surrounding intellectual control of the collection, digitization workflow, OCR and management of the Arabic character set, and the configuration of the information management system for world-wide access to the digital library.