Document and Archive Digitization

Service Post Business Solutions: Archive Digitization

Industry: Higher Education

The Klagenfurt University Library is the academic information center of the University of Klagenfurt and the largest library in Carinthia. With approximately one million printed books and valuable historical collections, it supports research, teaching, and continuing education, and makes academic knowledge accessible to the general public.

Challenge and Solution

An overview of the initial situation at the Klagenfurt University Library and our approach to solving it.

Challenge Solution

Other than books, the Karl Popper Collection includes about 7,000 pages of documents, some of them folded, stapled, or bound. Many of these documents are in poor condition, which is why they need to be handled with extra care. In addition, they include many handwritten comments and corrections in different colours. Digital versions must be true to the original to allow scientists to study the texts.

Our in-house courier service picked up the collection. For all documents, our document and archive digitisation solution was used. We employed the reflected light process, which is a widely used and safe method for especially sensitive documents. The LED light used was as gentle as possible and the mechanical stress was kept to a minimum.
Afterwards, all digital scans were checked for readability and the original historical books and documents were subsequently returned to the university library.
They are now accessible to researchers worldwide in a quick and straightforward process.

Result

Global availability, regardless of location or time
Faithful reproduction of the original
Maximum data security and operations in Austria

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