2024-08-28   Full text digitization (Koninklijke Bibliotheek)
The assignment includes data conversion within the digitization process of KB’s and other entities’ primary information resources, and pertains to full text digitization of Dutch publications (titles). At present, the KB is mainly having Dutch books and periodicals digitized that are published after the year 1800. Source files before 1800 are usually more difficult to convert due to the poorer quality of the files, owing to the script and characters. This material requires the Contracting Party to adopt … Bekijk de aanbesteding »
2019-11-28   Selective European Tendering Procedure Digitization of Dutch Literary Titles ('DBNL-compliant full text XML') (Koninklijke Bibliotheek)
The production process currently used by KB primarily focuses on the quality of correctly displayed text and images from the source. Scans of the source, largely in Latin script, are converted into an XML file using OCR, in accordance with the TEI standard (http://www.tei-c.org). The result is a valid 99,995 % correct full text in TEI-XML, that is enriched with metadata. The images from the scan are supplied as PNG files. These files will be presented now and in the future through services such as the … Bekijk de aanbesteding »