Naslov
Morepress – Students' experience with digitization of academic journals

Autori
Belcar, Dario ; Crnić, Ella ; Ćosić, Tina ; Đaković, Marin ; Pjanić, Valentina ; Šprljan, Josip ; Peša Pavlović, Nikolina

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, prošireni sažetak, ostalo

Izvornik
Proceedings of the XXVII Bobcatsss Symposium / Gašo, Gordana ; Gilman Ranogajec, Mirna ; Žilić, Jure ; Lundman, Madeleine (ur.). - Osijek : Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta Josipa Jurja Strossmayera u Osijeku, 2019

ISBN
978-3-95650-549-2

Skup
27th Bobcatsss Symposium Information and technology transforming lives: connection, interaction, innovation (Bobcatsss 2019)

Mjesto i datum
Osijek, Hrvatska, 22.01.2019. - 24.01.2019

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Poster

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Morepress, digital publishing, digitization, open journal system (OJS), optical character recognition (OCR)

Sažetak
Morepress is an online publishing platform created by University of Zadar Publishing office and Department of Information Sciences. The journal platform is based on Open Journal Systems (OJS). The main purpose of Morepress is to enhance the University’s publishing activities by using advanced digital technologies in the process of gathering, creation, editing, and transfer of open content. The goal of the project is digital curation and preservation systems for all publications at the University of Zadar (Morepress). The poster will present students’ work tasks in the Morepress project. Students’ engagement in the project Morepress started in 2015., as a part of the mandatory course Practical work. Until now, 22 students participated in preparing papers for digitization, and further editing for the goal of publishing academic journals on the digital platform Morepress. During this project, six academic journals were digitized and published on the platform. The procedures of the students’ engagement in the project consisted of several phases. First phase of the students’ tasks in this project was digitization of journals. After digitization process, the next phase was processing texts through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software, Abbyy Fine Reader 14. OCR is a process of converting handwritten, typed or printed text into machine-encoded text. The purpose of this assignment was to prepare documents so the text can be searchable for users. Students’ experiences with this project had many challenges, such as not being able to scan journals properly. This project represents a scientific value for academic community, but also has an important educational value for students. Students learned the process of digitization and using OCR software. As a result of students’ engagement in the Morepress project, digitized journals are now part of a digital collection that is available online in open access, which is important for the overall scientific community

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Informacijske i komunikacijske znanosti

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