A Metadata Generation System for Scanned Scientific Volumes

Xiaonan Lu (1), Brewster Kahle (2), James Z. Wang (1), and C. Lee Giles (1)
(1) The Pennsylvania State University
(2) Internet Archive
Abstract:

Large scale digitization projects have been conducted at digital libraries to preserve cultural artifacts and to provide permanent access. The increasing amount of digitized resources, including scanned books and scientific publications, requires development of tools and methods that will efficiently analyze and manage large collections of digitized resources. In this work, we tackle the problem of extracting metadata from scanned volumes of journals. Our goal is to extract information describing internal structures and content of scanned volumes, which is necessary for providing effective content access functionalities to digital library users. We propose methods for automatically generating volume level, issue level, and article level metadata based on format and text features extracted from OCRed text. We show the performance of our system on scanned bound historical documents nearly two centuries old. We have developed the system and integrated it into an operational digital library, the Internet Archive, for real-world usage.


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Citation: Xiaonan Lu, Brewster Kahle, James Z. Wang, and C. Lee Giles, ``A Metadata Generation System for Scanned Scientific Volumes,'' Proceedings of the Joint ACM/IEEE Conference on Digital Libraries, pp. 167-176, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 2008.

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