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Assessment FR
1. Finding Opportunities and Selection
2. Cataloguing and Digitization
3. Processing and Quality Control
4. Collaboration and Support
Assessment - DPE
1. Finding Opportunities and Selection
2. Cataloguing and Digitization
3. Processing and Quality Control
4. Collaboration and Support

Assessment - FR

1. Finding Opportunities and Selection

BDRC & BUDA

  • What is the mission statement of BDRC?
  • Does BDRC sell books?
  • What is BRRC?
  • What is BUDA?
  • Where are the BRRC and BUDA offices located?
  • Who is leading the BUDA project?
  • Is BUDA a religious or an academic project?
  • What is the Harvard Library Preservation Program?
  • What are the academic fields that will benefit from BUDA?
  • What kind of books are included in BUDA?
  • How are books made available to academic researchers and to the wider public?
  • Why should people let you and your team digitize their books?
  • Is it legal to scan books owned by other people?

Libraries and books

  • What is the unit used for cataloguing? Collection, book, volume, or text?
  • Are all the copies of the Derge woodblock Kangyur the same?
  • Will BDRC accept a copy of a book that has the same content, but a new cover?
  • What if it's the same content, but a different input?
  • What is the difference between a reprint and a new edition? Which one does BDRC need?
  • Can two books have the same cover, but different content? When does BDRC need a copy of such a book?
  • Does BDRC accept incomplete books (100/500pages)? Incomplete collections (10/15vol.)?
  • Is it true that BDRC doesn’t accept any photocopied books at all?

BDRC Lib App

  • Where are the different titles of a book found? The name of the author?
  • What should you do if you don’t find a title in the app?
  • What should you do if the publication information isn't there?

Practice Test

  • The FR pretends they are having a conversation with the owner of a collection, where they:
    • explain why digitization is important
    • they are asked if they do this job for money
    • they are given 5 titles to search in the app and decide whether or not they should be digitized

2. Cataloguing and Digitization

Prep

  • What type of text doesn’t need to be organized according to page number?
  • What do you do if a page is missing?

Files

  • What is "digitization?"
  • How are images represented by 0s and 1s?
  • What are file extensions? Why are they used?
  • What's the difference between different image formats?
  • What format do we need? What's its extension?
  • What is resolution? DPI? PPI?
  • How is it that the same image can be stored in a large file and in a small file?
  • What's the difference between "lossy" and "lossless" compression?
  • Which one is used for web-images? Why?
  • What is the difference between archive formats and access formats (web images)?
  • What is the difference between the 3 color modes? What are they used for?
  • Can a 1-bit image display colors?
  • What is the difference between JPEG and JPEG 2000?
  • Do web images have to be black and white?

Metadata

  • When should the DPE create a work folder? Where should they save it?
  • How should they name it?
  • What metadata is collected when scanning?
  • What are the 3 parts of an Accession Number?
  • Should image files be renamed?
  • What is the difference between an Accession Number and a Work Number?
  • What are the 2 things the DPE should add to a work folder? The 1 thing the FR should add?

Practice Test

  • The FR sets up the Fujitsu scanner on a new machine
  • The FR selects a work and fills in a biblio info sheet
  • The FR does the digitization prep
  • The FR digitizes the work and saves it
  • Troubleshooting, the FR deals with the following cases:
    • What should be done when two pages are scanned together?
    • What should be done is a page is missing in the original?
    • What should be done if a page is missing in the scanned images? If pages are mixed up?
    • What should be done if images are scanned with a different DPI? With different width?

3. Processing and Quality Control

Postprocessing

  • What is image processing?
  • Which image processing step loses data? What is lost?
  • Does rotating an image incur the loss of data?
  • Is an image that was compressed and de-compressed as good as an uncompressed image?
  • What is the problem if images don’t have the same width?
  • Why do we resize the height of the image, and the canvas for the width?

Backup

  • What should be backed up? Why?
  • How many Hard-Drives should the DPE use? How many should the FR use?
  • Is it safe to keep all your files on your computer?
  • Should the different states of each file be backed up?
  • How long should the DPE keep backup images? The FR?

QC1 & QC2

  • How many QC do we need to have? Are they different?
  • What are the different steps of QC1 and QC2? When does each happen?
  • What happens if the images don’t pass the test?

Practice Test

  • The FR performs the QC2 on the test work, backs it up, and prepares to submit it to the DPM
  • The FR shows a DPE how to perform the QC1
  • The FR deals appropriately with images having the following issues:
    • Skewing
    • Mixed up order
    • Borders
    • Noise
    • Wrong folder structure
    • Uneven DPI
    • Uneven width
    • Wrong format
    • Incomplete metadata

4. Collaboration and Support

Tools

  • What is the difference between the scanner software program and the scanner driver?
  • What do you do when the scanner’s CD isn’t available?
  • What can I do to help a colleague who has trouble with his computer, but is in a different location?

Practice Test

  • The FR creates a Weiyun account
  • The FR submits a work to the DPM on Weiyun
  • The FR does a remote support session on QQ to show a DPE how to adjust the data quality in the scanning software
  • The FR searches for the meaning of a technical term in Baidu
  • The FR finds a forum or discussion about the Fujitsu fi-7160 in Baidu

Assessment - DPE

1. Finding Opportunities and Selection

BDRC & BUDA

  • What is the mission statement of BDRC?
  • Does BDRC sell books?
  • What is BRRC?
  • What is BUDA?
  • Where are the BRRC and BUDA offices located?
  • Who is leading the BUDA project?
  • Is BUDA a religious or an academic project?
  • What is the Harvard Library Preservation program?
  • What are the academic fields that will benefit from BUDA?
  • What kind of books are included in BUDA?
  • How are books made available to academic researchers and to the wider public?
  • Why should people let you and your team digitize their books?
  • Is it legal to scan books owned by other people?

Libraries and books

  • What is the unit used for cataloguing? Collection, book, volume, or text?
  • Are all the copies of the Derge woodblock Kangyur the same?
  • Will BDRC accept a copy of a book that has the same content, but a new cover?
  • What if it's the same content, but a different input?
  • What is the difference between a reprint and a new edition? Which one does BDRC need?
  • Can two books have the same cover, but different content? When does BDRC need a copy of such a book?
  • Does BDRC accept incomplete books (100/500pages)? Incomplete collections (10/15vol.)?
  • Is it true that BDRC doesn’t accept any photocopied books at all?

BDRC Lib App

  • Where are the different titles of a book found? The name of the author?
  • What should you do if you don’t find a title in the app?
  • What should you do if the publication information isn't there?

Practice Test

  • The DPE pretends they are having a conversation with the owner of a collection, where they:
    • explain why digitization is important
    • they are asked if they do this job for money
    • they are given 5 titles to search in the app and decide whether or not they should be digitized

2. Cataloguing and Digitization

Prep

  • What type of text doesn’t need to be organized according to page number?
  • What do you do if a page is missing?

Metadata

  • When should you create a work folder?
  • Where should you save it?
  • How should you name it?
  • What metadata is collected at scanning-time?
  • What are the 3 parts of an Accession Number?
  • What are the 2 things you should include in the work folder?

Practice Test

  • The DPE sets up the Fujitsu scanner on a new machine
  • The DPE selects a work and fills out a biblio info sheet
  • The DPE does the digitization prep
  • The DPE digitizes the work and saves it
  • Troubleshooting. The DPE deals with the following cases:
    • What should you do if two pages get scanned together?
    • What should you do if a page is missing in the original?
    • What should you do if a page is missing in the scanned images? If pages are mixed up?

3. Processing and Quality Control

Backup

  • What should be backed up? Why?
  • How many Hard-Drives should you use?
  • Is it safe to keep all of your files on your computer?
  • How long should you keep backup images?

Quality Control

  • What are the different Quality Control steps?
  • What happens if the images don’t pass the test?

Practice Test

  • The DPE performs the QC1 on the scanned images
  • The DPE deals appropriately with images having the following issues:
    • Skewing
    • Mixed up order
    • Borders
    • Noise
    • Wrong folder structure
    • Uneven DPI
    • Uneven width
    • Wrong format
    • Incomplete metadata

4. Collaboration and Support

Practice Test

  • The DPE asks the FR to show him how to adjust the data quality in the scanning software using QQ remote assistance.
  • The DPE searches for the meaning of a technical term in Baidu.

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