The New Library of Alexandria Overview
Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA)
Ø Center of excellence in the production and dissemination of knowledge
Ø Place of dialogue, learning and understanding between cultures and peoples
Ø The World’s Window on Egypt
Ø Egypt’s Window on the World Ø Instrument for Rising to the Challenges of
the Digital Age
Ø Center for Dialogue Between Peoples and Civilizations
Not just a Library of Books but rather a vast cultural and scientific complex
A library that can accommodate millions of books
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http://archive.bibalex.org
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http://descegy.bibalex.org
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http://lartarab.bibalex.org
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More than 230,000 Arabic books are freely available online for Arabic
readers worldwide
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http://suezcanal.bibalex.org
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http://naguib.bibalex.org/
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http://nasser.bibalex.org
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http://sadat.bibalex.org
Ø Project Overview Ø Collection Overview Ø Data Representation Ø System Workflow
� DAF (Digital Assets Factory) � Cataloguing � Website
§ Solr search Engine § Article Viewer
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Ø Centre for Economic, Judicial, and Social Study and Documentation (CEDEJ) collaborated with Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) for the digitization of its archive of massive press articles collection
Ø The project consists of multiple modules to: � Index the Press Archive Collection � Control data entry workflow � Digitize and process data � Catalogue and review Articles � Archive Web Publishing
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Ø Package of press archive � 800,000+ press clips varying between
§ Press § Reports
� 500+ publishers � 60,000+ writers and reporters � 200 Different subjects
§ Economic, politics, social life, etc… � Archive Languages:
§ Arabic, English and French � Date range from 1966 to 2009
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Ø Finished so far � 115,000 press clips varying between
§ Press § Reports
� 200 publishers � 14,000 writers and reporters � 100 Different subjects
§ Economic, politics, social life, etc… � Archive Languages:
§ Arabic, English and French � Date range from 1966 to 2009
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Ø A list of packaged press archive is submitted to
Bibliotheca Alexandrina to be scanned and catalogued
Ø Source of data is a collection of boxes Ø The box is organized on the following
hierarchy � Folder � File � Sub-File � Document
Ø Document represents a single page of press
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Article Creation
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Article Metadata
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Lookups Management
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Reports
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Ø Based on Apache Lucene project v4.1
Ø SolrNet API is used to connect to Solr server
Ø Features � Simple/Advanced search � Results Highlighting � Fields AutoComplete � Text search (Article Viewer)
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Ø Article viewer is used for previewing articles � It is one of multiple viewers developed at BA
Ø Architecture � Server Side: RESTful services � Client Side: JavaScript using JSONP
Ø Features � Image preview � Metadata preview � Text selection � Searching/highlighting � Zooming options: fit width/height
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Ø Viewer Web Services � Metadata Web Service:
§ Retrieve article catalogue metadata § Return technical information (width, height, page
count..) � Content Web Service:
§ Retrieve the image of each single page in the article applying scaling to custom width and height responsively
§ Return the selected text based on the user highlighted area
� Search Web Service: § Perform the search using Solr engine APIs in the
content of the articles § Highlight the matching phrases in the article image
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