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International Newspapers Conference, 22-24 February 2005. Overview. About the projectCreating the indexMaking it available onlineDemonstrationWhat's nextQuestions. International Newspapers Conference, 22-24 February 2005. The problem to be solved. No complete published newspaper index in any form for any major Australian daily newspaper.
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1. International Newspapers Conference, 22-24 February 2005 Argus Index Online: Historical Newspaper Indexing in a Digital Age Geraldine SuterChief Editor, Argus Index Project
Judith PearceNational Library of Australia
2. International Newspapers Conference, 22-24 February 2005
3. International Newspapers Conference, 22-24 February 2005 The problem to be solved No complete published newspaper index in any form for any major Australian daily newspaper
4. International Newspapers Conference, 22-24 February 2005 How we are solving it By producing the first complete index to an Australian National daily covering the second half of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century; and making this available online
5. International Newspapers Conference, 22-24 February 2005 Why the Argus? Quality
Coverage of the 19th century
Status as a primary historical research source
There are indexes for part of its run
6. International Newspapers Conference, 22-24 February 2005 The size of the task 1860-1869 in electronic form but needing review
1870-1879 completed and ready to go online
1880-1908 unindexed
Remaining years, in print form only and indexed to a range of standards
7. International Newspapers Conference, 22-24 February 2005 Administration ARC Infrastructure grant
Eight partners:
La Trobe, Curtin, ANU, Griffith, Melbourne and Monash Universities
State Library of Victoria
National Library of Australia
35 Readers
4 Indexers
8. International Newspapers Conference, 22-24 February 2005 Design Annual indexes
Content and arrangement
Scope
Controlled vocabulary
9. International Newspapers Conference, 22-24 February 2005 Process Reading
Indexing
Editing
Review
10. International Newspapers Conference, 22-24 February 2005 Making the index available online Aims
Challenges
Outcomes
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12. International Newspapers Conference, 22-24 February 2005 Demonstration http://www-test.nla.gov.au/apps/argus/ This is the prototype we have built as part of stage 1. It contains test data from the existing 1861, 1862 and 1865 indexes.
There are three primary access methods: Browse Index, Browse Headings and Search.
Browse Index is the function most like browsing the printed index.
I’ll bring up the same entry for Shipping that we saw in the print example.
As you can see, it is identical, but there are some differences.
These cross references are links that take you to the entry under the referenced heading (select ships)
Also, I can move easily between entries for each year (select next year).
The Browse Headings function allows me to browse a list of all the headings used across all the years that are available online. (enter Shipping.)
The difference between this screen and the Browse Index screen is that it gives me a report of the number of articles indexed under this heading for all the indexed years. Also, I can see the previous and next headings.This is the prototype we have built as part of stage 1. It contains test data from the existing 1861, 1862 and 1865 indexes.
There are three primary access methods: Browse Index, Browse Headings and Search.
Browse Index is the function most like browsing the printed index.
I’ll bring up the same entry for Shipping that we saw in the print example.
As you can see, it is identical, but there are some differences.
These cross references are links that take you to the entry under the referenced heading (select ships)
Also, I can move easily between entries for each year (select next year).
The Browse Headings function allows me to browse a list of all the headings used across all the years that are available online. (enter Shipping.)
The difference between this screen and the Browse Index screen is that it gives me a report of the number of articles indexed under this heading for all the indexed years. Also, I can see the previous and next headings.
13. International Newspapers Conference, 22-24 February 2005 What’s next The next decade (1880-1889)
The decade after that (1890-1899)
Review of 1860-1869
Digitisation of the existing indexes
Interoperability
Opportunities provided by other projects
14. International Newspapers Conference, 22-24 February 2005 Questions