The Bibliotheca Alexandrina （BA） has been developing and putting to use a workflow for tuming printed books into digital books as its contribution to the building of a Universal Digital Library. This workflow is a p...The Bibliotheca Alexandrina （BA） has been developing and putting to use a workflow for tuming printed books into digital books as its contribution to the building of a Universal Digital Library. This workflow is a process consisting of multiple phases, namely, scanning, image processing, OCR, digital archiving, document encoding, and publishing. Over the past couple of years, the BA has defined procedures and special techniques for the scanning, processing, OCR and publishing, especially of Arabic books. This workflow has been automated, allowing the governance of the different phases and making possible the production of 18000 books so far. The BA has also designed and implemented a framework for the encoding of digital books that allows publishing as well as a software system for managing the creation, maintenance, and publishing of the overall digital repository.展开更多
While the amount of book borrowing is overlooked in the calculation of book losing rate in a closed system, there are also other important overlooked elements, factors such as reader groups and the reading timetable i...While the amount of book borrowing is overlooked in the calculation of book losing rate in a closed system, there are also other important overlooked elements, factors such as reader groups and the reading timetable in open book stacks. On the basis of concrete evidence, this paper revised a new formula for book losing rate with the purpose of making the estimation in management more objective and more accurate.展开更多
文摘The Bibliotheca Alexandrina （BA） has been developing and putting to use a workflow for tuming printed books into digital books as its contribution to the building of a Universal Digital Library. This workflow is a process consisting of multiple phases, namely, scanning, image processing, OCR, digital archiving, document encoding, and publishing. Over the past couple of years, the BA has defined procedures and special techniques for the scanning, processing, OCR and publishing, especially of Arabic books. This workflow has been automated, allowing the governance of the different phases and making possible the production of 18000 books so far. The BA has also designed and implemented a framework for the encoding of digital books that allows publishing as well as a software system for managing the creation, maintenance, and publishing of the overall digital repository.
文摘While the amount of book borrowing is overlooked in the calculation of book losing rate in a closed system, there are also other important overlooked elements, factors such as reader groups and the reading timetable in open book stacks. On the basis of concrete evidence, this paper revised a new formula for book losing rate with the purpose of making the estimation in management more objective and more accurate.
