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e-Content for Armenia. How to enrich it?

Tigran Zargaryan National Library of Armenia. e-Content for Armenia. How to enrich it?. First Armenian book , “The Friday Book”, was published in Venice in 1512 by Jacob the sinful . During 1512-1513 Jacob published 4 more books.

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e-Content for Armenia. How to enrich it?

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  1. Tigran Zargaryan National Library of Armenia e-Content for Armenia. How to enrich it?

  2. First Armenian book , “The Friday Book”, was published in Venice in 1512 by Jacob the sinful . During 1512-1513 Jacob published 4 more books. 500 anniversary of Armenian book printing was celebrated in 2012 . e-Content for Armenia. How to enrich it?

  3. How many Armenian book titles are printed during past 500 years? ??? e-Content for Armenia. How to enrich it?

  4. The first Armenian periodical “Azdarar” (“The Heralds” ) was published in 1794 in Madras, by Father Shmavonyan. None of Armenian libraries is having the full bibliography of Armenian periodicals preserved in their collections with relevant holdings data. Paper based versions of the union catalogues of periodicals are outdated. e-Content for Armenia. How to enrich it?

  5. Digitization is a key for solving many of accumulated problems having relation to e-Content and also is a solution for long term preservation of written heritage. e-Content for Armenia. How to enrich it?

  6. Who are the biggest producers of e-Content for Armenia Publishers Armenian libraries (digitizing printed materials) Mass media (born digital, paper and hybrid) NGOs (Wikimedia Armenia, ...) National libraries worldwide Private sector (HathiTrust, ...) Bloggers? Social Network members? e-Content for Armenia. How to enrich it?

  7. Armenian Libraries Union catalogue . More than 800,000 bibliographic records in Armenian, Cyrillic and Latin scripts. Union catalogue of Armenian periodicals. About 1,080 bibliographic entries are created. Holdings data for the NLA and the FSL are being catalogued. Creation of the bibliographic database “Armenian Book” is in process e-Content for Armenia. Current state

  8. About 1 million digitized pages (academic books, academic journals, rare and early printed Armenian books) are in the National Academy of Sciences Open Access domain, under the “Creative Commons” license agreement. Digitization is done by NLA and FSL and these materials are freely available to the users to read and to download. e-Content for Armenia. Current state

  9. In Armenian Wikipedia currently 78,000 articles are present (for the English Wikipedia this number is 4,300,000). “Wikimedia Armenia” Foundation through various projects is encouraging the growth, development and distribution of encyclopedic e-Content. Libraries can support Foundation for adding Content. e-Content for Armenia. Current state

  10. e-Content for Armenia. How to enrich it? • Digitization is the challenge of the 21st century . And Armenian libraries should be amongst the leaders for digitizing of “Written Heritage” and making that content available to all.

  11. e-Content for Armenia. How to enrich it? • 4 most fatal digitization myths are: • Digitization does not need government attention • Digitization is cheap to do and does not cost a lot. • You do it once and that is it. • A whole library can be digitized easily.

  12. e-Content for Armenia. How to enrich it? Myth 1: Digitization does not need government attention . • Three decisions of Armenian Government will help to bypass the “Myth 1”. • “Developing Armenian Libraries union catalogue”. Approval date: 29 Nov., 2012 • “Exalting documents, and including them in the National Library Collection. Approval date: 10 Jan., 2013 • “Organization and Coordination of the digital version of the Armenian script library”. Approval date: 4 Feb., 2013

  13. e-Content for Armenia. How to enrich it? Myth 2: Digitization is cheap to do and does not cost a lot • It is cheap if just photos of the pages are taken. In this case the image quality is low, the photographing speed is slow. • Professional digitizing equipment costs between 50,000 – 60,000 USD. • During one shot the image is passing several processes: cropping, adjustment, sequential numbering, saving in TIFF format, etc. • Trained staff should be involved in this.

  14. e-Content for Armenia. How to enrich it? Myth 3: You do it once and that is it. • For each digitized material relevant metadata must be provided (in MARC21, or in Doublin Core etc formats). • If possible, digitized copies should pass OCR • All solutions (machine readable data exchange, data export/import protocols, data search, retrieval and mining etc) must be based on ISO approved standards in Information Science, Computer Science, Library Science.

  15. e-Content for Armenia. How to enrich it? Myth 4: A whole library can be digitized. • Collections of the National Library of Armenia consist of: • Several million newspaper pages • 4 million book titles (280 million pages???)

  16. e-Content for Armenia. How to enrich it? Problems to be solved • Presenting multilingual content (non Latin scripts) on the Web. • Developing multilingual authority records, multilingual subject heading, geo. locations. • Organizing multilingual search • Preparing indexes of named entities • Developing ‘nice looking’ Web Based UNICODE fonts for Armenian content • Producing content for mobile devices.

  17. e-Content for Armenia. How to enrich it? Tasks to be done • Including Armenian e-Contnet in European networks, such as: • The Europeana • The European Library (TEL) • Europeana Newspapers • Directory of Open Access Books • Directory of Open Access Journals • Promoting multilingualism for International Standard Name Identifiers (ISO 27729).

  18. ISNI: 0000 0001 0001 8559 • Name: Armenian S.S.R. Erevan State University • Armenian S.S.R. Erevani Petakan Hamalsaran • Armenian S.S.R. Petakan Hamalsaran • Armenian S.S.R. State University • Dānishgāh-i Dawlatī-i Yirivān • EGU • Erevan State University • Erevani Hamalsaran • Erevani Petakan Hamalsaran • Erevani Pethamalsaran • Erevanskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ universitet • Erevanskij Gosudarstvennyj Universitet 1991 - • Erewani Petakan Hamalsaran • Gosudarstvennyj Universitet Erevan, 1991 - • Kratikon Panepistēmion tou Erevan • Staatliche Universität Jerewan • State University Erevan, 1991 - • Uniwersytet Państwowy w Erewaniu

  19. e-Content for Armenia. How to enrich it? Armenian content in HathiTrust • Number of digitized Armenian titles - 9,155 • Number of digitized Armenian titles in public domain – 2,063 • Veratsnutʻiwn Hayastani / gretsʻ V. Pōttō; ṛuserēnitsʻ tʻargmanetsʻ P.P. by Potto, V. A. 1836-1911. Published 1904

  20. »«رهس لا~لاله)»» . Conversion by HathiTrust to the plain text which is in Arabic. . سعيه صهرهجست-سد ععط»لإم سرهق٠هع ةيط .~رع ميهق ، ة-هبي قجعرقحس ططل-ص ءلب ، مهم-ه-ع يعمل-ج لم-تااؤسس ، هو~ءسلم سطل-لسع المح-تا همته-هم لقعر~حله~عروقوس ط-هه س عاق . سجلا سلإط هعمم بهسء طلي-بهرهةرهسجعع،٠ة اههععو~.- قعجتهه~وسع وو . س ٠لعبهمءه« سجليلإمظس مم-لنمر~. ءلب سديه طم،سهعسع ههمرلم٠سعول لم اهسرط٠لإ ءصوته عرج٠ة هعملله صولا منه ظءهقج سره~.. ع~ه~.~ر. مللم بله همها تجه٠هسههلإيجع بله وتهسعبم٠ط جمله. ساسرسر«ليرجلةع٠س ل ققه». هس-لا تهلهسعس ةجهعهم٠. وسع».»«سه هاس-سناج »سهتهسري هسسسح فقهله لارس.«~«ه-قس~. لسجج همس-ولن- و»ل-به٠ ا هسو ملي صومنا~ليه مم«سملمح~عربوقال»~. همسهبهي .~اع»٠للليه٠م سا-يهوه . اهعط~) هلي ته-رقته ممهوتنعسس~.، ابها-انا» ممسرمه لام تل~ع-ته~عم مه- . س٠سهقتجاهله يم»طته اسس بك ههعههسس امس~)- ءسلا-متنه. معه-هر مم،لهم،ر ل-مل «ءلحمه «رووه، وله-نا ممسربه سهسج ع-لا والم~. «قعععسسلا٠ه لهم ءلعق همهتثمجع لها-جرع وهجتهي الموسم بل »هسه~س.لمس-آ~. )~يسهم» «للاكل لر،« ممسرعج س،لهسج لا-لا وع»وس-للى هعسليم وفيول. يخ م لاح هءه»عرس يوس-حمق لا-تهم

  21. e-Content for Armenia. How to enrich it? Armenian content in HathiTrust Main Author: Lamennais, Félicité Robert de, 1782-1854. Other Authors: Achemean, M. Language(s): Armenian Published: K. Pōlis : Tpagrutʻiwn Kʻirishchean Ew Ěnk, 1870. Series: Azgayin Zhoghovrdakan Matenadarn Subjects: Authority.Liberty.Freedom of religion. Physical Description: 144 p. ; 17 cm.

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  23. e-Content for Armenia. How to enrich it? Bloggosphere. Is this an e-Content for enriching? Wikimedia. What about the archival copies (mandatory copy for the National Library of Armenia?). Social networks. How we should evaluate this content? New domain name .հայ is in a process of discussions. Will Armenian script domain names help to enrich the e-Content?

  24. e-Content for Armenia. How to enrich it? Granish - Open community of writers, critics, publishers and translators. Born digital literary content is produced. http://granish.org/ Archiving Internet (am zone). Who is in charge? Most of Armenian newspapers besides paper versions are producing e-versions as well. Who is in charge for preserving the archival copies? News agencies producing born digital content. 7or.am, blog.7or.am, a1plus.am etc

  25. e-Content for Armenia. How to enrich it? Thank you.

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