DDD Success Story: Tufts University

When Tufts University's Perseus Digital Library needs Classics texts digitized they turn to Digital Divide Data for help. DDD provides them a range of services tailored to the needs of the specific project.

After scanning to TIF images, some documents are converted to text using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. DDD then transforms the documents into accurate and user friendly sources by spell checking, adding tags, and checking for accurate character recognition. Using custom tags defined by Tufts, DDD adds tags to text output to enable use by Perseus' databases. Some of the content brought online in this way include:

For more complex, or lower quality original documents or if higher accuracy is needed, DDD's double keying work provides the highest quality output. DDD was able to help Tufts University's Digital Library complete a Graphic Information System (GIS) project that brought online the Boston City Directories from the 19th century. DDD helped Tufts to link old pictures to phonebook records. Researchers, students and the public are now able to access the names, addresses and professions of 19th century Bostonians, previously available only in the furthest corners of the library's stacks.