Book-length publications: As we researched our own campus for the MTSU Memory project, we frequently consulted The First Fifty Years, a campus history written by alumnus Homer Pittard, that covered the period 1911-1961. Because MTSU held the copyright for the book we decided to digitize the entire volume. This initiated an intensive learning experience about the pros and cons of compound objects and ultimately the process of creating complex PDF files. The process of scanning the pages and doing OCR through the Abbyy Fine software was quite straightforward. A definite learning curve was encountered in figuring out how to structure a compound object from the hundreds of page images. However, once the book was loaded into the MTSU Memory collection, we were dissatisfied with the results, largely because queries could return dozens of individual pages intermingled with other materials. In addition, when we figured out the compound object expense in terms of licensed objects used, we rethought our original approach. In brief, a 200 page book exacts a
cost of 201 objects utilized, 200 for the images and one for the combined record. By comparison, a book imported as a PDF made from the same original image files costs only one licensed object. While this may seem an arcane concern, with a licensing level of only 10,000 items we could envision our capacity diminishing quickly if we continued to do book-length items. So, The First Fifty Years was reloaded as a PDF as was our second book, The Raider Forties, and a thesis. Smaller multi-page items continue to be treated as compound objects
Book-length publications: As we researched our own campus for the MTSU Memory project, we frequently consulted The First Fifty Years, a campus history written by alumnus Homer Pittard, that covered the period 1911-1961. Because MTSU held the copyright for the book we decided to digitize the entire volume. This initiated an intensive learning experience about the pros and cons of compound objects and ultimately the process of creating complex PDF files. The process of scanning the pages and doing OCR through the Abbyy Fine software was quite straightforward. A definite learning curve was encountered in figuring out how to structure a compound object from the hundreds of page images. However, once the book was loaded into the MTSU Memory collection, we were dissatisfied with the results, largely because queries could return dozens of individual pages intermingled with other materials. In addition, when we figured out the compound object expense in terms of licensed objects used, we rethought our original approach. In brief, a 200 page book exacts a
cost of 201 objects utilized, 200 for the images and one for the combined record. By comparison, a book imported as a PDF made from the same original image files costs only one licensed object. While this may seem an arcane concern, with a licensing level of only 10,000 items we could envision our capacity diminishing quickly if we continued to do book-length items. So, The First Fifty Years was reloaded as a PDF as was our second book, The Raider Forties, and a thesis. Smaller multi-page items continue to be treated as compound objects
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