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Digitizing Early Kingston Newspapers

Digitizing Early Kingston Newspapers. Digitizing Early Kingston Newspapers. Michael Vandenburg Database Librarian Kingston Frontenac Public Library January 24, 2007. Kingston Frontenac Public Library’s Experience. Michael Vandenburg January 23, 2007.

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Digitizing Early Kingston Newspapers

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  1. Digitizing Early Kingston Newspapers DigitizingEarly Kingston Newspapers Michael Vandenburg Database Librarian Kingston Frontenac Public Library January 24, 2007 Kingston Frontenac Public Library’s Experience Michael Vandenburg January 23, 2007

  2. Initial project of Digitial Kingston was digitization of KFPL’s index to Whig. • Goal was to both digitize the index and link resulting database records to images of the newspaper pages.

  3. First stage was digitizing the index. • The card catalogue index to the Whig from 1810-1849 contains approximately 130,000 cards like this…

  4. and this…

  5. Summer 2003 • 4 students hired to scan index cards. • Perform OCR on resulting .tif image files. • Perform limited proofreading. • Run macros against resulting text files to normalize data.

  6. Here’s a sample of final text file

  7. Stage 1 completed in Fall 2004 • Data loaded into VUBIS database • Made available online at www.digitalkingston.ca

  8. Stage 2 begun in October 2004 • Photographing pages of bound copies of newspapers housed in W.D. Jordan Library at Queen’s

  9. Used very high resolution cameras and copy stand • Several images taken of each page and merged into single image

  10. Intitial images in .tif format • Raw format from camera is lossless • 16 million colors • Average file size is 23 meg • Here’s a sample from 1810

  11. Here’s what it looks like at full zoom:

  12. Stitched images in .tif format • Merged using Canon’s Photostitch software • Average file size is 60 meg • Here’s a sample from 1845

  13. Here’s what it looks like at full zoom:

  14. Web published images in .pdf format • Reduced from stitched image using eyedrop process in Photoshop • Average file size is 1.5 meg • Here’s a sample from 1830

  15. Late 2006, completed photography of bound volumes from 1810-1848. • Early 2007, image processing complete. • .pdf files of newspaper pages loaded onto web server. • Available at: • http://www.digitalkingston.ca

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