Europeana Newspapers Project A Gateway to European Newspapers

Europeana Newspapers Project A Gateway to European Newspapers Online

Europeana Newspapers Project Best Practice Network that aims at aggregating 18 million digitised historic newspaper pages from 12 European libraries, drastically improving search and retrieve possibilities. Volume Cross European cultures Sharing best practices Improving accessibility Improving availability This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community http: //ec. europa. eu/ict_psp 2

Why Newspapers are an everyman’s source of information “Newspapers represent normal life in its own native locality” “the newspaper and the historian” Lucy Maynard Salmon (1923) Image: Nationaal Archief The Netherlands This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community http: //ec. europa. eu/ict_psp

The challenges…… Newspapers were not meant to be preserved… • frail and crumbly paper • missing edition • incomplete supplements • poorly bound • fading ink • different fonts • legal uncertainties with contemporary material This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community http: //ec. europa. eu/ict_psp

Who 4 technology providers 12 content providers 1 aggregator 2 networking partners This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community http: //ec. europa. eu/ict_psp

Who – associated partners This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community http: //ec. europa. eu/ict_psp

How Drastically improve search and retrieve possibilities through refinement • Optical Character Recognition • Optical Layout Recognition • Named Entity Recognition (persons, places and organisations) This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community http: //ec. europa. eu/ict_psp 7

How Evaluating quality and developing prediction tools for individual libraries to improve OCR results. This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community http: //ec. europa. eu/ict_psp 8

How Metadata standardisation and recommendations Image: Ukenaut This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community http: //ec. europa. eu/ict_psp 9

How Building a content browser for newspapers Image: Henrik. S This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community http: //ec. europa. eu/ict_psp 10

How Share best practices via workshops and national information days Image: Australian National Maritime Museum This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community http: //ec. europa. eu/ict_psp 11

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