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Name of the Research Infrastructure (RI) |
Estonian e-Repository and Conservation of Collections |
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Acronym of the RI |
e-Varamu |
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Website of the RI |
Under construction, to be launched in 2015 |
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Location (address) of the RI |
Ülikooli 18 / 50090 Tartu |
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Scientific domain(s) of the RI |
Information Science and Technology |
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Type of RI |
Distributed |
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Research Services at the RI
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Mass deacidification; Mass deacidification of library and archival materials on acidic paper; Printer materials digitizing; Digitisation of cultural heritage (books, manuscripts, audio-visual materials ect); Database storage and data handling; Scientific databases for storing and handling of data; Software development; Developing thin-client access portals. |
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Equipment at the RI
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Automatic book scanner; Book scanner with automatic page turner. Documents (books, magazines, bound newspapers) max A1 format can be handled; Disk array; Disk storage system for digital archives; Mass-deacidification system; Treatment chamber(s); paper material precondiitioning (e.g drying) chamber(s); deacidificant fluid collector(s), deacidification, reagent/carrier fluid storage tank(s); Hard- and software for digitation of audio- (magnetic tape) and visualmaterials (VHS video recordings, photos). |
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Size
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Number of national users per year: NA Number of European users per year: NA Number of international users per year: NA |
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Year of start of operation (i.e. Status and Status Date) |
Status: Under construction Since: 2011 |
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Key words
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Library portal, information catalogue, search engine, semantic web, digital repository, digital library, data network, virtual infrastructure, mass digitizing, book scanning, digitizing centre, deacidificating, deacidification centre |
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Description of the RI
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The planned portal “E-varamu” is a semantics-based search engine, which allows for access to related information from all databases of Estonian “memory institutions” – librarys, archives, collections and other information relevant to the research community. The portal will use extensive cross-reference methods between several databases, connect the search items with (science) literature catalogues and allow for saving querys and user-preferences. In addition to the portal, the infrastructure will feature a mass deacidification centre for conservation, and a large mass deacidification centre for written literature. The infrastructure creates the capability to digitize holdings of memory institutions and make the data more accessible for end-users through portal. |
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Hosting Organisation |
University of Tartu |
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Contact email |
