DIGITALIZATION OF THE STRUGGLE OF THE LEAGUE FOR THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN 1923-1989

Objective

The "Digitalization of the Struggle of the League for the Rights of woman 1923-1967" programme aims at converting the magazine's archives from analogue to digital form and storing its data in a high-tech data base accessible via the website of the Panteion University's centre for gender studies: (http://www.genderpanteion.gr).

Given that the balance of the programme depends on the provision of a wide variety of reliable information, considerable importance is attached to the digitalization initiative.

High-resolution digitalization (300 dpi tiff) has been carried out on the magazine with a view to upgrading article quality. The magazine has also been enriched with a range of additional information (metadata) in accordance with the Dublin Core Metadata Schema.

Cataloguing and indexing of articles followed the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules 2, with thematic indexing organized on the basis of the thematic headings of the Library of Congress as translated by the National Library of Greece. The purpose of selecting the specific models was that the programme should be oriented to both national and international trends in the field.

Readers - male or female - of an electronic text - are thus enabled to access specific information, entering combinations of words and phrases, rapidly and with very great accuracy, utilizing appropriate software. For example, if one clicks the arrow for the field Thematic headings, the list appears of the words that have emerged from processing of the digitalized articles in all numbers of the magazine. From this list you choose the thematic heading that interests you, click the "search" button and automatically there appear on your screen all the articles that are relevant to the thematic heading you have selected. A similar search procedure applies for the fields: Date, Number and Writer.

You can also do a combined search, choosing a specific date from the menu and typing the appropriate word in the "title" field. You can also type the keyword that interests you in the anywhere field and the search engine will seek out relevant entries in all metadata fields of the data base. For example if you write the word "Kazantzakis" in the field, the search engine will look for the word in question in the fields: title, writer, thematic heading, date and number.

Finally, you can save the text that interests you on your hard disc, print it out or combine it with other electronic texts.

The arrangement of the data base is user-friendly. The information search procedure is simple.

Working group

Aleka Boutzouvi, on behalf of the Gender's Studies Center Scientific Committee, is responsible for planning and co-ordination of the project.
Fotini Aravani: responsible for processing of digital texts.
Stavros Kokosioulis : responsible for Data Base planning.