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Production
Descriptions of OCR processing, TEI transformation, and metadata creation
Organization
How to keep hundreds of thousands of files organized.
Edition-Section System
File organization depends on two basic folder types
Print Edition Folder
Subdivisions of the print editions for digitization.

Production
Descriptions of OCR processing, TEI transformation, and metadata creation
- Organization
  How to keep hundreds of thousands of files organized.
  - Edition-Section System
    File organization depends on two basic folder types
    - Print Edition Folder
      Subdivisions of the print editions for digitization.
    - Section Folder
      The use and structure of section folders.
  - Folder names
    As the OCR workflow passes through its various stages, production moves into specific folders for each stage. Their names and contents are given below:
  - Repositories
    A guide to the different repositories used to store ocr-project data.
  - Setting Up the Repositories
    Create local copies of the remote repositories
- Page Files
  Explains the procedures we use to get the best quality OCR of each page.
- Entry Files
  Procedures for converting single pages into Encyclopedia entries.
- Master Files
  After creating entry files, we run an automated metadata generation process to add index terms to each entry.

Print Edition Folder

Subdivisions of the print editions for digitization.

The print edition folder names follow the convention: eb + edition-number. We work with four editions—the third, seventh, ninth, and eleventh—and our print edition folder names are thus: