{"id":525,"date":"2015-01-28T13:11:58","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T11:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.folklore.ee\/dh\/?page_id=525"},"modified":"2015-01-28T13:11:58","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T11:11:58","slug":"laak_mikkel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dh.org.ee\/en\/events\/dhe2014\/laak_mikkel\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooperation project of digitizing Estonian high literature digitization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Marin Laak, Marju Mikkel<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Estonian Cultural History Archives, Estonian Literary Museum<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Far-reaching and large-scale measures are being introduced to make cultural heritage available in Estonia within a longer temporal perspective. Ministries aim to mass digitize books, archival documents, photographs and films and present the material as open data in cloud. This may happen in the nearest or more distant future, but in any case it will take the digitization capacity of Estonian memory institutions to a new level. In the context of this medium-length perspective, the conceptual choices and content environments of the smaller projects, which have been implemented so far, may be viewed as tiny survey patches in a larger field.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, the Ministry of Culture launched a call for applications to digitize Estonian works of high literature, with an aim of making them freely available online. The programme resulted in converting the first Estonian classical novels into EPUB format in 2013 by Digira O\u00dc. In 2014, a continuation project was launched with Estonian National Library, Estonian Literary Museum and Digira O\u00dc as cooperation partners. As a result of the project, 87 high literature books, constituting a total of 13,000 original book pages, have been made available in EPUB format. The choice of the books was influenced by literature recommended in school curricula. When speaking of Estonian high literature, the authors mostly mean works not subject to copyright laws. By the second phase of the project, these resources had been exhausted and the term \u2018high literature\u2019 was given a broader meaning. In addition to works not subject to copyright laws, an initial selection of some authors\u2019 works which are protected with copyright (those by Tuglas, Alver, Ristikivi, Under and Adson) have also been made freely available online.<\/p>\n<p>How does the process of converting Estonian high literature into e-books\/EPUB format work and which stages does it entail? Preparing book files for conversion into EPUB files was highly laborious, including the choice of a book\u2019s copy, digitization and text processing. The latter proved the most time-consuming and problematic stage as the books represent the earliest literature and are written in the still evolving early literary language of the 19<sup>th<\/sup> and early 20<sup>th<\/sup> century. The digital library available through the portal \u2018Kreutzwald\u2019s Century\u2019 offers potential from the viewpoint of digital humanities and added value for readers.<\/p>\n<p>The books are available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digar.ee\">http:\/\/www.digar.ee<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/kreutzwald.kirmus.ee\">http:\/\/kreutzwald.kirmus.ee<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digira.ee\">http:\/\/www.digira.ee<\/a>. The e-books are prepared in the collaboration of Estonian National Library, Estonian Literary Museum and Digira O\u00dc, and are supported by the programme \u2018Estonian Literature\u2019 of the Ministry of Culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marin Laak, Marju Mikkel Estonian Cultural History Archives, Estonian Literary Museum Far-reaching and large-scale measures are being introduced to make cultural heritage available in Estonia within a longer temporal perspective. Ministries aim to mass digitize books, archival documents, photographs and films and present the material as open data in cloud. This may happen in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dh.org.ee\/en\/events\/dhe2014\/laak_mikkel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cooperation project of digitizing Estonian high literature digitization&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":516,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-525","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.org.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.org.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.org.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.org.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.org.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.org.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/525\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.org.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.org.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}