Digitalization of Otto Encyclopaedia

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Authors

SOJKA Petr

Year of publication 2001
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Kritické edice hudebních památek IV
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Informatics

Citation
Web http://www.fi.muni.cz/usr/sojka/publ.html
Field Use of computers, robotics and its application
Keywords digitalization; Otto encyclopaedia; OCR; navigation
Description An experience from the process of adding logical markup to visually tagged scanned data is presented. Method of gradual markup enhancement is outlined. Methods of navigation in a~large hypertext document based on typesetting from logical markup are suggested---physical, logical and semantic user views. Their application on a~29,000 page digitization project to create an electronic encyclopaedia is described. Problems faced in applying Adobe's Acrobat technology for encyclopaedia publishing are discussed.
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