Preparing digital versions of cultural heritage objects

In this practical session we will try to scan and prepare for publication a short book. After scanning allpages we will try to post-process them and prepare for Optical character recognition. With theoutcomes of scanning and OCR we will prepare web delivery version which will be published indigital library based on DSpace and dLibra. We will show capabilities of both software packagesin terms of metadata creation and full-text search. After having object online we will think aboutits preservation in a longer term. We will create checksums and discuss about possiblesolutions for archiving this objects. We will also show how to publish objects in a very high resolution using tools like Zoomify orOpenLayers viewer. We will show both paid and free software packages