Small Scale Retrodigitization

Doob, Michael

  • Towards Digital Mathematics Library. Birmingham, United Kingdom, July 27th, 2008, Publisher: Masaryk University(Brno), page 103-113

Abstract

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The digitization of papers born in the print-only era is vital for the health of the mathematical record. Many large scale retrodigitization projects are underway and, at this point, probably more that half of the mathematical history has been finished. Many smaller journals and books remain to be done. This paper gives a framework within which these may also be completed. It uses the digitization of the Canadian Journal of Mathematics (53,000 pages), completed as a one-man project over a few months, as the working example. The project described herein not only may be used as a model for similar efforts but also indicates some interesting problems yet to be solved.

How to cite

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Doob, Michael. "Small Scale Retrodigitization." Towards Digital Mathematics Library. Birmingham, United Kingdom, July 27th, 2008. Brno: Masaryk University, 2008. 103-113. <http://eudml.org/doc/220476>.

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References

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  1. [unknown], The home web site for ArXiv is http://arxiv.org/ and is hosted by the Cornell University Library. The history of ArXiv is given in the article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArXiv. 
  2. [unknown], http://www.ceic.math.ca/Publications/retro_bestpractices.pdf. 
  3. Dennis, Keith, [unknown], has had some encouraging results using Perl scripts developed by his working group at Cornell. His software has only been circulated informally. Zbl0527.16007
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  6. [unknown], The project location is http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr. 
  7. [unknown], Described at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract_(software)and announced at http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2006/08/announcing-tesseract-ocr.html. 
  8. [unknown], The main site is at http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php. 
  9. [unknown], A full description of this project is at http://minidml.mathdoc.fr/. 
  10. NUMDAM 
  11. [unknown], See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCRopus. 
  12. [unknown], The home page for this software is http://www.pdfhacks.com/pdftk/. 
  13. [unknown], Documentation for the hyperref package can be found both at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Packages/Hyperref and at http://www.tug.org/applications/hyperref/. 
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  15. [unknown], http://www.unicode.org/charts contains a list of the standard character names. 

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