Overview

The National Library of Luxembourg (Bibliothèque nationale du Luxembourg) has been digitizing its national heritage collections since the early 2000’s. After a few years of image-only digitization projects, the library switched to a METS/ALTO output with multiple manifestations, gaining with the years a great expertise in creating digitized content enriched with both Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Optical Layout Recognition (OLR). In 2020 the eLmA (eLuxemburgensia meets AI) project was born: correcting the full-text (ALTO files) of more than 6,000,000 articles on the eluxemburgensia.lu site. These articles have a varying quality for their OCR text, due to one or more reasons: the language of the text in which the text is written (German and French, to a lesser extent in Luxembourgish and English), the typography used (Gothic or Latin characters) or the quality of the digitization. This presentation will have a more in-depth look at the eLmA project, as well as its impact on the digital preservation of METS/ALTO content.

Speakers

Roxana Maurer, Bibliothèque nationale du Luxembourg, Coordinator Digital Preservation
Ralph Marschall, Bibliothèque nationale du Luxembourg, Project Manager Digitisation

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