Iconographic and archive digitization

General description of the service:

Scanning of all publications ever published by the Publications Office on behalf of European Union institutions to achieve a digital library available freely.

Context

The European publications office is the biggest editor in the world. Projects EUbookshop and PODL aim at creating a digital library that gives citizens access to EU publication produced since 1952. This represents 130,000 publications, 13 millions pages and 4 km shelves. After the follow-up of the EU-Bookshop project in the beginning of the 2008 year, for whom we processed 6 100 publications for a total amount of 1,1 million pages, Diadeis has been entrust for the Publications Office Digital Library.

General description of the service:

Scanning and processing of 600,000 silver-based photos and other iconographic documents.

Context

The tender issued by HFM was for digitization of part of its archives consisting of 7 publications (Télé 7 Jours, Paris Match, Elle, Elle à table, France Sunday, First & Ici Paris). The project includes the operations of scanning and image processing. The nature of the originals (film negative / positive, B & W or colour prints) and formats (from 24x36 to 13x18 or beyond) are very variable, even within the same batch of scanning. The finished quality of images must compare favourably with what can be routinely obtained from digital professional cameras (resolutions of 12 to 20 megapixels).

General description of the service:

Scanning and back-capture of catalogues

Context

The National Archives mission is to conserve and classify the documents produced by the Government and the Departments of State of France. Their main tasks include:
• The conservation of national documents at both sites - Paris and Fontainebleau.
• The access to this heritage to the public and researchers.
• The purpose of this project is to provide readers easier access to the 23,000 catalogues dating back two hundred years, that are stored on both sites at Paris and Fontainebleau, by scanning and data capturing these documents in XML format.

General description of the service:

Dematerialization of the Belgian press collections of the Royal Library of Belgium (KBR).

Context

Within the Context of the computerization of their archives, The Royal Library of Belgium and the CEGES-SOMA, have decided to approach professionals in order to proceed with the valorization and digital preservation of their historical collection of the Belgian press. The archives are composed of more than 3000 volumes, which are very heterogeneous in terms of age (the most ancient volumes date back to the nineteenth century), paper quality, languages (French, Dutch, German) and typology (up to 54cm wide and 75cm high for the largest formats). The processing must enable the delivery, at the rate of 10.000 pages a day, of TIFF and PDF images (300 DPI non-compressed), but also the OCR in XML-Alto format as well as METS metadata.

General description of the service:

Scanning and back-capture of Alsace-Moselle Land Registers (8,000,000 pages)

Context

Alsace-Moselle is an eastern region of France that was governed under German Law at the beginning of 20th century. As a consequence, the legislative framework for land registration in this region (3 departments) is different from the system in place in the rest of France. Up to now, land registration was still based on a manual procedure involving handwritten transcriptions and inscriptions on A2-sized register books, thus creating a serious bottleneck in the administration of land transactions. The goal of the AMALFI project is to replace the 40,000 register books, stored in 46 Land Registries and totalling 8,000,000 double A2 pages, by a computerized land registration system.

General description of the service:

Production of IGN BD Parcellaire ImageTM

Context

In 2001, the French Government enforced a strong cooperation between two public entities: the Direction Générale des Impôts (Ministry of Finance) in charge of the French Cadastral Map, and IGN (the French Geographic Institute), with the goal of being able to produce a unified, assembled, georeferenced digital cadastral map covering the whole national territory before 2008. This assembled cadastral map is meant to become a major component of the French RGE (Référentiel à Grande Echelle). Considering the limited geographic coverage of existing vectorised parcel boundaries, IGN decided in a first step to produce an assembled cadastral map in raster format, to be commercially distributed under the form of image tiles, under the brand name “BD Parcellaire ImageTM”. DIADEIS was the main IGN contractor for this production of the BD Parcellaire Image, with the mission to cover 38 departments within 2,5 years.