Y sialensiau
The challenges
Martin Locock
CILIP Cymru 2008
Amserlen / Timescale
Start Jan 2007
End March 2009
Choose titles, seek consent, enhance catalogue
records, create detailed metadata, scan, create
XML, run OCR, generate TEI, create METS,
design website, create website, marketing
Swm / Scale
•600,000 pages
•90 titles
•Now 400,000 pages, 50 titles
Caniatâd / Permission
•Sought from publishers
•They make reasonable steps to contact rights
holders
•95%+ of titles say yes; 96% of authors say yes
•Takes a long time
•Takedown policy as fallback
Archaeologia Cambrensis, Barddas, Brycheiniog,
Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies,Cardiff Naturalists
Society, Cristion, Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru/Welsh
History Review, Cylchgrawn LlGC, Cymdeithas hanes
Ceredigion, Cymru, Efrydiau Athronyddol, Flintshire
Historical Society, Gwent Local History, Lleufur,
Montgomeryshire Collections, Morgannwg, Planet,
Poetry Wales, Presenting Monmouthshire, South Wales
Records Society, Studia Celtica, Trafodion Anrhydeddus
Gymdeithas y Cymmrodorion, Y Cofiadur, Y
Cymmrodor, Y Llyfr yng Nghymru, Y Traethodydd, Yr
Arloeswr
Cyflwyno / Presentation
•Free unrestricted access to all without
registration
•Word-searching full text or article titles
•Browsing by journal, issue
•Scanned image page-view and underlying TEI
level 2 text from OCR
•Scans are greyscale low resolution
Strwythur data / Data structure
Title > Issues > Articles
Articles > Divisions > Items (Images)
Pages (various orders)
Held as METS
Adnabod nodau gweledol / OCR
•Standard OCR programmes don’t support ŵ ŷ
•Low nominal character accuracy (99%)
•Checks against English and Welsh dictionaries
•No manual correction
•Fuzzy searching, ‘Did you mean?’
Gwe 2.0 / Web 2.0
•Planned to include blog, wiki, comments, user
notes area
•Legal and practical issues
•Virtual Learning Objects in Moodle/ Jorum
Amserlen / Timetable
Soft launch September 2008
Project completion March 2009
Budd / Usefulness
•Visible to users
•Clear content and navigation
•Maintained for the future
•Platform for more content
http://welshjournals.llgc.org.uk
http://cylchgronaucymru.llgc.org.uk
Ymholiad / Queries
martin.locock@llgc.org.uk