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Moving Production In House Moving Production In House Family - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Moving Production In House Moving Production In House Family - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Moving Production In House Moving Production In House Family History Archive Collection Family History Archive Collection Jeri Jump March 15, 2007 Jeri Jump March 15, 2007 2 Introduction Introduction 3 Fully text
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Fully text searchable Fully text searchable
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The Present The Present
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Viewing the Family Histories Viewing the Family Histories www.familysearch.org
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Viewing the Family Histories Viewing the Family Histories www.familyhistoryarchive.byu.edu
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Challenges and Solutions Challenges and Solutions
1. Finding the tools 2. Feature implementation 3. Book Navigation 4. Production
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Phases of Production Phases of Production
Split & crop images
Photoshop
Convert books to digital images
RTIV Scan
Despeckle, apply contrasts
Photoshop
- 1. Preparing
the image- Add metadata
Vendor
Verify metadata
Vendor
Make digital book searchable
Vendor
- 2. Preparing
the text- Manually batch load files
- nto Internet into
Contentdm Generate/export internet files
Vendor
- 3. Preparing
the internet files- Archive and delete files
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1. 1. Finding the Software Tools Finding the Software Tools Tools belonged to BYU and the vendor Multiple tools to one tool
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Tool Solutions Tool Solutions 1. Kofax Ascent Capture software 2. Analysis 3. Robust
- ut of the box
and customizable by nature 4. The Solution
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- 2. Software Feature Challenges
- 2. Software Feature Challenges
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Scanning 2. Cropping/Splitting 3. Cleaning 4. Adding Metadata 5. Validating numbering 6. Creating text searchable files 7. Creating Contentdm files 8. Portability
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Software Feature Solutions Software Feature Solutions
- 1. Kofax Ascent Capture Software-Out of the box
Scanning Adding metadata Creating text searchable files Portability
- 2. Customized Modules
Book Cropper- Batch cropping/splitting files Image Processing- Batch cleaning files Page Numbering Validation-Validate numbering Custom Release Script- Creates Contentdm files
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- 3. Digital Book Navigation Challenges
- 3. Digital Book Navigation Challenges
Each hard copy of a book contains navigation information Digital navigation needs
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Digital Book Navigation Solutions Digital Book Navigation Solutions
The Digital Table of Contents (Menu)
- 1. Most time intensive
- 2. Manual process
- 3. Complexity of layout examples
Page heading Chapter heading Page number
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Digital TOC Pagination Worksheet Digital TOC Pagination Worksheet
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- 4. Production Challenges
- 4. Production Challenges
1. Many steps in the production process 2. Time and costs were too high 3. Complicated folder structure 4. Complicated tracking system
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Production Solutions Production Solutions 1. We reduced the steps by batch processing and increased automation 2. Missionaries will be producing books 3. Simplified the folder structure 4. Simplified the tracking system
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In House Production with Ascent Software In House Production with Ascent Software
Split & crop images Book Cropper Convert books to digital images Scan Despeckle, apply contrasts Image Processing
- 1. Preparing
the image Add metadata Validation Verify metadata Page Validation Make digital book searchable PDF Generator
- 2. Preparing
the text Manually batch load files
- nto Internet into
Contentdm Generate/export internet files, archive, delete files Custom Release Script
- 3. Preparing
the internet files
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Progress Report Progress Report
- 1. Custom modules
- 2. Remote sites
- 3. 10K books
- 4. Missionaries
- 5. 2 man hours/book
- 6. Orem Digital
Processing Center
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