LIFE-SHARE Project: Developing a Digitisation Strategy Toolkit

This poster will outline the Digitisation Strategy Toolkit created as part of the LIFE-SHARE project. The toolkit is based on the lifecycle model created by the LIFE project and explores the creation, acquisition, ingest, preservation (bit-stream and content) and access requirements for a digitisation strategy. This covers the policies and infrastructure required in libraries to establish successful practices. The toolkit also provides both internal and external resources to support the service. This poster will illustrate how the toolkit works effectively to support digitisation with examples from three case studies at the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York

Metabolic profiling of Arabidopsis thaliana epidermal cells

Metabolic phenotyping at cellular resolution may be considered one of the challenges in current plant physiology. A method is described which enables the cell type-specific metabolic analysis of epidermal cell types in Arabidopsis thaliana pavement, basal, and trichome cells. To achieve the required high spatial resolution, single cell sampling using microcapillaries was combined with routine gas chromatography-time of flight-mass spectrometry (GC-TOF-MS) based metabolite profiling. The identification and relative quantification of 117 mostly primary metabolites has been demonstrated. The majority, namely 90 compounds, were accessible without analytical background correction. Analyses were performed using cell type-specific pools of 200 microsampled individual cells. Moreover, among these identified metabolites, 38 exhibited differential pool sizes in trichomes, basal or pavement cells. The application of an independent component analysis confirmed the cell type-specific metabolic phenotypes. Significant pool size changes between individual cells were detectable within several classes of metabolites, namely amino acids, fatty acids and alcohols, alkanes, lipids, N-compounds, organic acids and polyhydroxy acids, polyols, sugars, sugar conjugates and phenylpropanoids. It is demonstrated here that the combination of microsampling and GC-MS based metabolite profiling provides a method to investigate the cellular metabolism of fully differentiated plant cell types in vivo

Optical Music Recognition in der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek

Die Bayerische Staatsbibliothek hat im Sommer 2016 ein Projekt zur automatischen Notenerkennung (Optical Music Recognition, OMR) gestartet. Dieser Beitrag beschreibt zunächst die Funktionsweise und die Qualität von OMR-Programmen und geht dann auf die bisherigen Erfahrungen der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek mit OMR ein. Anschließend werden die Anwendungsszenarien skizziert, die die Bayerische Staatsbibliothek aufsetzend auf den OMR-Daten entwickeln wird.In the summer of 2016, the Bavarian State Library has started a project on optical music recognition (OMR). This paper first describes the functionality and quality of OMR-programs and then depicts the OMR-experiences of the Bavarian State Library. Finally, the use case scenarios are outlined that the Bavarian State Library will implement on top of the OMR data

Aufbau einer verteilten digitalen Bibliothek für nichttextuelle Dokumente - Ansatz und Erfahrungen des PROBADO Projekts

Das PROBADO Projekt ist ein von der DFG gefördertes Leistungszentrum für Forschungsinformation mit dem Ziel des prototypischen Aufbaus und Betriebs einer verteilten digitalen Bibliothek für heterogene, nicht-textuelle Dokumente. Betrachtet werden in diesem Projekt alle Schritte der bibliothekarischen Verwertungskette vom Bestandsaufbau über semi-automatische Inhaltserschließung, bis hin zu visuellinteraktiver Suche und Präsentation sowie Betriebsaspekten. In diesem Beitrag werden der gewählte Ansatz beschrieben und die bislang im Projekt gemachten praktischen und konzeptionellen Erfahrungen systematisiert und eingeordnet. The PROBADO project ls a collaborative research effort aiming at prototypical development and operation of a distributed digital library system for heterogeneous, nontextual documents. The project considers all steps of the processing chaln in libraries ranging from repository compilation, semi-automatic, content-based indexing, to visual- interactive search and presentation, and operational aspects. In this paper, we describe the chosen approach, specifically detailing on experiences and lessons learned up to now in the course of this project

The PROBADO project - approach and lessons learned in building a digital library system for heterogeneous non-textual documents

The PROBADO project is a research effort to develop and operate advanced Digital Library support for non-textual documents. The main goal is to contribute to all parts of the Digital Library work flow from content acquisition over indexing to search and presentation. While not limited in terms of supported document types, reference support is developed for classical digital music and 3D architectural models. In this paper, we review the overall goals, approaches taken, and lessons learned so far in a highly integrated effort of university researchers and library experts. We address the problem of technology transfer, aspects of repository compilation, and the problem of inter-domain retrieval. The experiences are relevant for other project efforts in the non-textual Digital Library domain