Library solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that the DigiTool digital asset management solution has gone live at the National Library of Luxembourg. Using the DigiTool platform, the National Library - which also runs the Ex Libris Aleph integrated library system, MetaLib gateway and metasearch portal, and SFX OpenURL link resolver - has made the nation’s 160-year-old newspaper archive available online at www.eluxemburgensia.lu.
The archive contains over 800,000 historical news reports, analyses, articles, advertisements and pictures from 100,000 newspaper pages, including items in German, French, and Luxembourgish. The National Library of Luxembourg utilises DigiTool to manage digitised daily newspapers and make them publicly available. The National Library also plans to digitise its entire printed archive of over six million documents in the coming years.
The compliance of DigiTool with METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard) and the product’s incorporation of ALTO (analysed layout and text object) technology were important factors in the National Library’s selection of this Ex Libris solution. METS and ALTO enable DigiTool to perform a full-text search and to display results at the article level and page level, with the item from the search highlighted in the display of the results.
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