University of Richmond Library: America at War

The America at War website is a joint creation of the Bibliographic Access Services department and Government Documents unit at the University of Richmond. It was established as part of the university’s Digital Initiative as a way to make valuable Government Documents resources held at the university available to a wider audience by placing them online.

The documents were scanned on a ScanPartner 620C using this process. The digital image was then processed with the Scansoft Omnipage Pro Optical Character Recognition (OCR) following this procedure.

Once the image was created and the OCR completed the files were saved to the external hard drive and the archival TIFF images burned to DVDs using this process.

The text produced from the OCR process was then inserted into the description field of the Encompass metadata record to enable full text searching of the documents.

	Process of Creating the Website	The America at War website is a joint creation of the Bibliographic Access Services department and Government Documents unit at the University of Richmond. It was established as part of the university’s Digital Initiative as a way to make valuable Government Documents resources held at the university available to a wider audience by placing them online. The documents were scanned on a ScanPartner 620C using this process. The digital image was then processed with the Scansoft Omnipage Pro Optical Character Recognition (OCR) following this procedure. Once the image was created and the OCR completed the files were saved to the external hard drive and the archival TIFF images burned to DVDs using this process. The text produced from the OCR process was then inserted into the description field of the Encompass metadata record to enable full text searching of the documents.

	Hardware Used	Scanner - Fujitsu ScanPartner 620C PC - Gateway E-4000 External Storage Device - Iomega 120GB Firewire drive

	Software Used	Scanning and image manipulation - Adobe Photoshop Optical Character Recognition - Scansoft Omnipage Pro 120 Image Display - Contribute 2 Flashpaper Digital Collection Management - Encompass by Endeavor

	Credits	Web design - Mark Burdette, Jeff Peil Content - Mark Burdette, Rachel Frick, Keith Weimer Metadata, Cataloging - Leigh McDonald Encompass Design and Content- Tom Campagnoli, Nancy Woodall Digital Scanning Assistants - Andrew Fulwider, Stanton Leddy, Jeff Peil, Cara Schmidt