Managing the work∞ow of massive feeding of digital libraries ?

Feeding a digital library requires a signiflcant efiort due to the cost of a massive digitization and processing of documents, specially when these documents are not in a good state of conservation. When a big group of people work together in this complex process, support tools are needed to manage the process work∞ow, to facilitate the work in each activity and thus, to reduce the cost and ensure the quality of the obtained results. This paper proposes a set of strategies to face the management of the work∞ow of the digital library building process and a general system architecture supporting them. The paper also presents a tool called DigiFlow developed following this architecture, and the results obtained from a real experience applying it in the digitization of a collection of 23,000 documents of the 19 th century.