Restoring and Digitizing the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster Municipality of Gjirokaster Aurora Lazaj The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013"
Restoring and Digitizing the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster The main deliverables of Gjirokastra Municipality as Lp2 during the implementation of the project has been: WP 6: Renovations and Equipment for Municipal Library Action 6.1.1 Library Renovation WP 5: Digital Content and Library Network Action 5.1.1 Digitization of 1000 selected books Action 5.2.2 Digital Content for Folk Music and Artifacts The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013"
Restoring and Digitizing the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster The Renovation consisted as follow: 5.2.1 Internal and external Construction works 5.2.2 Roof reconstruction and hydro/insulation works 5.2.3 Sanitation and hydraulic installation works 5.2.4 Electrical Installations The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013"
Restoring the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster The library situation before reconstruction was contrary to the standards set by Unesco for a museum city as Gjirokastra The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013"
Restoring the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster May 2015 The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013"
Restoring the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013" Balkaneana
Restoring the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013" Balkaneana
Restoring the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013" Balkaneana
Restoring the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013" Balkanean
Restoring the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013"
Restoring the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013" Balkanean
Restoring the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster The library after reconstruction November 2015 The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013" Balkanean
Restoring the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013" Balkanean
Restoring the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013" Balkanean
Restoring the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013" Balkanean
Restoring the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013"
Restoring the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013" Balkanean
Restoring the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013" Balkanean
Restoring the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013" Balkanean
Restoring the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013" Balkanean
Restoring the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013" Balkanean
Restoring the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013" Balkanea
Restoring the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013" Balkaneana
Digitizing the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster The Municipal Library of Gjirokaster consist of Over 120.000 titles Thousands of magazines and newspapers Until now no digital version of the library content existed in any form The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Balkaneana Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013" Info Day 20/07/2016
Digitizing the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster Objective of the Action Create a digital representation of the content of the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster fully compliant to the Balkaneana and Europeana standards. In the framework of the project 1.000 books, newspapers, magazines, etc. are digitized 50 hours of video, 50 hours of audio and 500 photos brought to a modern digital form The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013" Balkanean
Methodology of Digitalization • A lot of sources were gathered selecting the best available content. • Local authorities help was decisive during all the content selection procedure, from the contacts with local studios and photographers till the detailing of the records related with the content.
ETHNOMUSICOLOGY PANORAMA • The basic guide of the project is the study of ETHNOMUSICOLOGY PANORAMA OF GJIROKASTRA REGION, which is not just a study but the best expertise ever about the essence of the folk in our specific South region of Albania.
Photos • The basic sources about the photos are from: • local photographers • Institute of Culture Albums & • Internet. • All photos are in high quality jpeg format.
Photos Content • The majority of photos are from the Folk Festivals of Gjirokastra & from folk costumes of the South Albania. • There is a great number of gathered photos that couldn’t be included because of the low resolution
Audio • Audio has a good quality with AGO AGO YMER AGO small exceptions of old songs, where the audio processing target is to maintain their originality CAJUPI • Songs are archived in high quality mp3 files
Videos • Most of local videos are converted from DVD format, in Ne dy male me debore separated titles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yer_kkMOXxs • An important resource remains internet, especially high quality videos from YouTube. • There were not so much things to do with the quality of some important old videos.
Digitizing the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster To digitize the books and newspaper digitization equipment (scanner) were necessary The choice was made based on the (restricted) budget and the nature of the artifacts Two scanners has been purchased Fujitsu Image Scanner ScanSnap SV600 books Avision AV5400 newspapers, magazines The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013"
Digitizing the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster Fujitsu Image Scanner ScanSnap SV600 Quick – one button scan Auto book correction Page turn detection Post processing tools of scanned documents Etc… The Project is co-funded by the European Union and by National Funds of Greece and Albania under the IPA Cross-Border PROGRAMME "Greece - Albania 2007-2013" Balkanean
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