Supply Panel for Digitisation of Heritage Materials - Establishment of Category 3 - Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Related Services - SLNSW_2017006

The State Library is seeking to identify suitably qualified and experienced companies to provide optical character recognition (OCR) services for digitised from the Library’s collection.

As one part of the State Library's assessment process, respondents will be given a test batch of digitised items (the SOURCE IMAGES). The Respondent will be required to OCR all files in the test batch, deliver specified cropped SCREEN JPEG files, METS / ALTO and PDF/A files, as well as any administrative and technical metadata requested. Annexure F sets out the instructions for "OCR Pilot Test".

The OCR Services (the "Deliverables") required by the Libray include:

• The creation of cropped and de-skewed SCREEN JPEG's from SOURCE IMAGES that conform to the specifications provided by the SLNSW
• The creation of OCR from SCREEN JPEGs
• The creation of METS, Rosetta METS and ALTO that conforms to specified schemas and reference the SCREEN JPEGs
• Addition of specific metadata to the Rosetta METS, METS and ALTO files
• The creation of searchable PDF/A for each book/serial/item that conforms to the standards provided by the SLNSW for specific administrative metadata
• Quality Assurance of the Deliverables produced from the services described in Section 5 of this document
• File transfer of the Deliverables back to SLNSW
• Retention of a copy of the digitised files until the integrity and quality acceptance of the transferred files has been confirmed by SLNSW
• Project management for the term of the contract

For further information please refer to the RFT Documents

 

NSW Regions: South East Sydney

Open Tenders - An invitation to tender by public advertisement with no restriction placed on who may tender. Tenderers will normally be required to demonstrate in their tender that they have the necessary skills, resources, experience, financial capacity, and in some cases licences, accreditations, etc., to fulfil the tender requirements.

A mandatory RFT briefing will be held on the date, time, and place, indicated below. The contact officers/s of the Agency will be available at that time to answer any queries regarding this RFT and the RFT process generally. Names of persons attending the RFT briefing must be provided to the contact officer at least three working days prior to the date. No more than 2 persons from each Respondent will be permitted to attend the RFT briefing.

Location: Jean Garling Room, Maquarie Building, State Library of NSW, Macquarie St, Sydney

Date: 9 November

Time: 2pm

To register for the RFT briefing please contact Project Leader

Mr Raqib Sabur

Email: raqib.sabur@sl.nsw.gov.au

Phone: 02 9273 1799

 

Lodgement: https://tenders.nsw.gov.au/oeh/

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