This document provides an overview of a digitization project between the Center for Jewish Art, National Library of Israel, and Harvard University via Dantec. The project aims to digitize around 180,000 items from the Center for Jewish Art collections, including negatives, slides, photos, blueprints, and research papers. To date, over 201,000 items have been digitized. The items come from various media and have been documented by researchers over many years using different methods and stored across multiple locations. Each digitized "object" is a library of scanned items on a particular topic accompanied by technical documentation in an Excel file. Around 42,000 images from the project have already been loaded into Harvard's system, with the remaining data

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DIGITIZATION OF CULTURAL
HERITAGE
CENTER FOR JEWISH ART
HEBREW UNIVERSITY
EVA / MINERVA 2013 Jerusalem

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Dantec and the Judaica
Division

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Dantec and the Judaica
Division
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Dantec was founded in 1986
Dantec is the vendor that executes Judaica
digitization and meta data projects on behalf of
Harvard’s Judaica division
Examples of projects:
 Kol Israel – Rashut Hashidur
 Central Zionist Archive (CZA)
 Galil Project - Beit Yigal Alon
 Jewish National Found (JNF)
and more

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CJA Digitization Project

5. Project Overview
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Joint Project of:
 Center
for Jewish Art
 National Library of Israel
 Harvard University (via Dantec)
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Volumes:
 Initial
estimation ~180,000 items
 To date ~ 201, 000 items (Jan-Aug 2013)
 Still to be digitized ~ 35,000 items (pending CJA)

6. Project Scope
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Negatives >>,
Slides, Photos,
Blueprints,
Information sheets
>>, Research
papers >>
Verity of
Medias
Items’
storage &
distribution
Raw
material
Documented by
many researches
along many years,
using different
documentation
methods
Unified Objects
Folders,
Boxes,
Envelops,
CDs
distributed in
many
locations

7. What is an Object?
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An object is a library of items
that belong to same topic
Scanning accompanied by
technical excel
Allows effective
documentation process
Special sorting software
program sorts the scanned
items to the relevant object
library
Scanning
TIF,
JPG
Technical
Documentation
Excel
Sort to objects
SW

8. Project status in Harvard
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~42,000 images already loaded to Harvard’s
system
The data will be loaded to Alef system in the
coming days

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Thank You

10. Negative
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11. Information Sheets
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12. Research Papers
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