SOLUTIONS / DATA DELIVERY & MANAGEMENT
Global Geography Library+
Global Geography Library+ (GGL+) is a fully customizable platform solution for customers wanting to digitize and platformize their own materials, with the option to add any of East View’s pre-built GGL collections.
Endless Possibilities
GGL+ can accommodate a wide variety of materials and formats, including PDFs, high-resolution IIIF image files, and zip files. While most GGL collections are map focused, customers can host virtually any content, including data, handbooks, and other internal documents.
GGL+ provides your organization with 24/7 access to critical materials and can accommodate multiple access models (IP authentication and/or username/password), with the ability to restrict access to certain materials for different users.
GGL+: More than Just a Scanning Operation
GGL+ is a full service solution and can accommodate everything from a straightforward digitization and hosting project, to one involving georeferencing, feature extraction, cataloging, and more. Whatever your needs, East View will work with you to make sure our solutions maximize your organization’s resources.
Proven Track Record
East View has worked with a variety of institutions on digital conversion/hosting projects, including university libraries, academic consortiums, corporate libraries, and large organizations such as state archives, publishers and foundations. Original primary documents are treated with the utmost care to make sure that rare, fragile or one-of-a-kind items are preserved intact wherever possible.
Case Study
Digitization & Platformization for Academic Library
Overview:
Contracted with the John Miller Burnam Classics Library at the University of Cincinnati to create a digital version of the library’s entire collection of paper maps and charts relating to Greece and the surrounding region.
Solution:
- Received over 650 print maps and charts; inventoried and organized items into thematic groups
- Digitized all print materials and conducted OCR (in Greek and English) for items with heavy textual elements
- Mounted maps to GGL+, East View’s secure digital library platform, to facilitate discovery via browsing and search, including faceted search
- Created item-level metadata, including permanent URLs
- Created index maps and geomosaics for all map series in the collection
