Europeana.au and
The European Library have been involved in an historic cultural project, from the
Europeana-Newspapers.au website, here is an explanation of the project;
Our project is:
- Funded under the European Commission’s CIP 2007 – 2013 programme;
- A three-year project, running until January 2015;
- Aggregating 18 million historic newspaper pages for Europeana and The European Library;
- Converting 10 million newspaper pages to full text. This will help users quickly search for specific articles, people and locations mentioned within the newspaper;
- Creating a special content viewer to improve online newspaper browsing.Try the prototype;
- Building tools that will allow professionals to better assess the quality of newspaper digitisation in relation to level of detail, speed and costs.
On the 22-23 January 2015 an international meeting was held in the
National Library of Estonia which concluded the pan-European newspaper digitalization project. About 40 specialists of digital libraries from 23 countries were expected to participate. Here is an outline of what the project accomplished from the
National Library of Estonia:
As part of the Europeana Newspapers project, The European Library developed a historic newspapers browser that enables users to perform full-text searches in millions of historic newspaper pages. The browser contains around 30 million newspaper pages from 25 libraries in 23 European countries. Users are able to search:
- full text of more than 10 million historic newspaper pages
- named entity recognition in Dutch, German and French to enable searches of names of people and geographic places
- metadata records of over 20 million historic newspaper pages.
You can see the results of the project on
The European Library's Historic Newspaper Browser.
I am continually amazed at the huge number of digitalization projects going on around the world almost continually.
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I'm listening to your YouTube webinar called "I Read it in the Newspaper" You mentioned that you had made a list of digital newspaper sites - and that the list was on your blog.
ReplyDeleteI'm trying to find it. I see a list of tags, but the newspaper tag has only 1 entry, and it is for European newspapers. How do I find your list, and how do I search your blog?
Here is the link to the series:
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You can always find one of my topics by searching for my name and the topic, i.e. James Tanner digital newspapers.
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