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Restoring and Digitizing the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster Municipality of Gjirokaster Aurora Lazaj The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece

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Restoring and Digitizing the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster

Municipality of Gjirokaster Aurora Lazaj

The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013"

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Restoring and Digitizing the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster

The main deliverables of Gjirokastra Municipality as Lp2 during the implementation of the project has been:

WP 6: Renovations and Equipment for Municipal Library

Action 6.1.1 Library Renovation

WP 5: Digital Content and Library Network

Action 5.1.1 Digitization of 1000 selected books Action 5.2.2 Digital Content for Folk Music and Artifacts

The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013"

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Restoring and Digitizing the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster

  • The Renovation consisted as follow:
  • 5.2.1 Internal and external Construction works
  • 5.2.2 Roof reconstruction and hydro/insulation works
  • 5.2.3 Sanitation and hydraulic installation works
  • 5.2.4 Electrical Installations

The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013"

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Restoring the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster

The library situation before reconstruction was contrary to the standards set by Unesco for a museum city as Gjirokastra

The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013"

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Restoring the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster May 2015

The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013"

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Restoring the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster

Balkaneana The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013"

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Restoring the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster

Balkaneana The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013"

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Restoring the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster

Balkaneana The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013"

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Restoring the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster

Balkanean The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013"

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Restoring the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster

The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013"

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Restoring the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster

Balkanean The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013"

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Restoring the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster

The library after reconstruction November 2015

Balkanean The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013"

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Restoring the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster

Balkanean The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013"

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Restoring the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster

Balkanean The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013"

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Restoring the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster

Balkanean The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013"

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Restoring the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster

The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013"

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Restoring the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster

Balkanean The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013"

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Restoring the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster

Balkanean The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013"

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Restoring the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster

Balkanean The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013"

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Restoring the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster

Balkanean The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013"

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Restoring the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster

Balkanean The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013"

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Restoring the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster

Balkanea The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013"

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Restoring the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster

Balkaneana The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013"

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Digitizing the Municipal Library

  • f Gjirokaster

The Municipal Library of Gjirokaster consist of

Over 120.000 titles Thousands of magazines and newspapers

Until now no digital version of the library content existed in any form

Balkaneana Info Day 20/07/2016 The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013"

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Digitizing the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster

Objective of the Action

Create a digital representation of the content of the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster fully compliant to the Balkaneana and Europeana standards.

In the framework of the project

1.000 books, newspapers, magazines, etc. are digitized 50 hours of video, 50 hours of audio and 500 photos brought to a modern digital form

Balkanean The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013"

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Methodology of Digitalization

  • A lot of sources were gathered

selecting the best available content.

  • Local authorities help was

decisive during all the content selection procedure, from the contacts with local studios and photographers till the detailing

  • f the records related with the

content.

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ETHNOMUSICOLOGY PANORAMA

  • The basic guide of the project is

the study of ETHNOMUSICOLOGY PANORAMA OF GJIROKASTRA REGION, which is not just a study but the best expertise ever about the essence of the folk in our specific South region

  • f Albania.
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Photos

  • The basic sources about the

photos are from:

  • local photographers
  • Institute of Culture Albums &
  • Internet.
  • All photos are in high quality

jpeg format.

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Photos Content

  • The majority of photos are

from the Folk Festivals of Gjirokastra & from folk costumes of the South Albania.

  • There is a great number of

gathered photos that couldn’t be included because of the low resolution

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Audio

  • Audio has a good quality with

small exceptions of old songs, where the audio processing target is to maintain their

  • riginality
  • Songs are archived in high

quality mp3 files

AGO AGO YMER AGO CAJUPI

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Videos

  • Most of local videos are

converted from DVD format, in separated titles.

  • An important resource remains

internet, especially high quality videos from YouTube.

  • There were not so much things

to do with the quality of some important old videos.

Ne dy male me debore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yer_kkMOXxs

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Digitizing the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster To digitize the books and newspaper digitization equipment (scanner) were necessary

The choice was made based on the (restricted) budget and the nature of the artifacts Two scanners has been purchased

Fujitsu Image Scanner ScanSnap SV600  books Avision AV5400  newspapers, magazines

The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013"

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Digitizing the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster Fujitsu Image Scanner ScanSnap SV600

Quick – one button scan Auto book correction Page turn detection Post processing tools of scanned documents Etc…

Balkanean The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013"

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Digitizing the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster Avision AV5400

Fast duplex scanning of A3 documents 50-page auto document feeder Complete bundled software applications Etc…

Balkanean The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013"

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Digitizing the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster

1000 books were digitized Definition of taxonomies (controlled vocabulary with a hierarchical structure ) for the selected books

Balkanean The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013"

Albanian Literature Antholog y Biography Novelette Memories History Short Poem Folklore … Depiction Sketch Skits Satire Fairytales Selected Humorous

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Digitizing the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster

Definition of semantics and metadata

Definition of metadata so that they match both the Europeana (EDM) and Balkaneana requirements.

Provider Type Language Title Creator Publisher Place Date ….

Balkanean The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013"

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Digitizing the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster

The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013"

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Digitizing the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster

Balkanean The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013"

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Conclusions

  • Balkaneana is a great chance

for the establishment of our

  • wn folk, literature and

artefacts database which will be managed and expanded by

  • ur library with more

multimedia content that will be found and offered to our citizens as their own treasure.

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Digitizing the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster

THANK YOU

Balkanean The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013"