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International Atomic Energy Agency

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

2.3 Digital Preservation Activities

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Germain St-PierreDigital Preservation Technician

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Our Main Tasks

1. Process new incoming NCL2. Digitization of INIS Microfiche Collection3. Digitization of out of print IAEA Publications

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1. NCL Processing in 2012

• 10,512 new NCL available from INIS (Vol. 43/01 to 43/39)

• From 48 countries or organizations• Full-Texts contained in 7,678 PDF files

• Input mostly in PDF => Quality Control (QC)• NCL input in hard copy => Full Digitization(Digitization = Scanning + Image Enhancement + OCR +

PDF output + QC)

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2. Microfiche Digitization Project

Started in 2003• Digitize the INIS microfiche collection• Improve on-line access to full-texts • Ensure long-term preservation of the digital

collection• Done in close collaboration with INIS

Member States to prevent duplication of digitization efforts

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Microfiche Collection

• INIS Volume 1 to 27 (1970-1996)• All NCL distributed on microfiche• Whole collection:

• 312,000 NCL reports• Over 1,000,000 physical microfiches• 500,000 NCL bibliographic records• Estimated 17 million pages

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MF Digitization Project – 2012 only

• Jan – July 2012 (Progress and Activity Report) :• 20,434 PDF files added from digitized

microfiches• Over 843,000 pages of full-texts

• August – September 2012:• 4,250 more PDF files added from

digitized microfiches• Over 266,000 pages of full-texts

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MF Digitization Project – Status

• Since 2003:• 279,427 PDF files from digitized

microfiches• Over 13,7 million pages of full-

texts• 340 GB of data• 81% of the MF collection has been

digitized (Status 2012-09-25)

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Microfiche Digitization Statistics

Year Full-Texts from MF Digitized Pages Size in GBBefore 2004 566 49 574 3.7

2004 19 960 1 324 778 36.52005 36 935 1 577 365 32.12006 23 163 1 367 637 33.32007 9 313 668 769 16.32008 25 675 1 228 057 29.72009 81 223 3 940 250 77.32010 33 881 1 969 112 45.92011 24 027 511 997 16.2

2012 *) 24 684 1 109 598 49.7 Total: 279 427 13 747 137 340.8

*) Status 2012-09-25

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Cumulative Full-Texts from Microfiche

2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 20120

50,000

100,000

150,000

200,000

250,000

300,000 279,427 PDF *)

*) Status 2012-09-25

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Digitized Pages from Microfiche

2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 20120

500,000

1,000,000

1,500,000

2,000,000

2,500,000

3,000,000

3,500,000

4,000,000

1,109,598 *)

*) Status 2012-09-25

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Our Tools

• Scanning and Image Enhancement• PixEdit 7

• OCR• ABBYY FineReader 11

• NCL Collection Management System• Developed by SDSG• Very useful Reporting Tool• Over 466,000 full-texts

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3. Other Digitization Projects

• Completed projects:• IAEA Bulletin• IAEA General Conference• INDC• IAEA Technical Reports Series (TRS)

• On-going projects:• Out of Print IAEA Publications

• Proceedings Series• Safety Series (IAEA/NS)

• Photo Archival Project

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What comes next?

• Maintain and add value to the existing Digital Collection by:• Reprocessing (OCR) scanned images• Splitting PDF files to create 1 PDF file for each

analytic record

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For More Information

• For more details on the history of our activity and our technical infrastructure over the years, see:• Newsletter No. 13 September 2012

(available from INIS Members Area on the Web)

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Thank you!