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DIGITISATION Journals

Piql is the best choice for restoring, digitising and safeguard- ing your irreplaceable data. As a specialist provider of journal digitisation, Piql can offer a complete solution ensuring high resolution capture, secure long-term storage and guaranteed accessibility.

BENEFITS

• Enhanced search and retrieval

• Restoration of journals in poor condition

THE CHALLENGE

• Highly accessible and securely stored on piqlFilm, preventing loss in the event of any disaster

Journals hold large amounts of research, articles and critical data that can have relevance for decades after publishing. Scholars, researchers, professionals and the general public access journals regularly, driving the need for digitisation of older print journals. Digitisation not only provides increased access, but also creates opportunities for reuse and repurposing of the data and content. However, the sheer volume of print journals, often in various languages, can prove challenging for digitisa- tion. Fragile and torn pages, missing or blurred text, speckles and overprints add to these challenges.

• Advanced searchability

• Digitised content can be repurposed and monetised for new channels • Unlocks precious real estate occupied by paper journal archives

USECASE

We provided journal digitisation services for a digital library that had an old paper archive of 250 research journal titles, amounting to 20 million pages. As many of the journals were fragile and damaged, we prepared them for digitisation with the utmost care. We addressed the defects and damages through a digital clean-up and reconstruction process after the items were professionally prepared and scanned.

High quality capture and metadata extraction ensured enhanced searchability and accessibility, before being ingested into the library’s digital catalogue.