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National Digital Newspaper Program and Chronicling America

National Digital Newspaper Program and Chronicling America. Outline. National Digital Newspaper Program National Digital Newspaper Program in Ohio Newspaper Selection From Microfilm to Digital Images: The NDNP Process Chronicling America Project Contact. National Digital Newspaper Program.

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National Digital Newspaper Program and Chronicling America

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  1. National Digital Newspaper Programand Chronicling America

  2. Outline • National Digital Newspaper Program • National Digital Newspaper Program in Ohio • Newspaper Selection • From Microfilm to Digital Images: The NDNP Process • Chronicling America • Project Contact

  3. National Digital Newspaper Program • Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities • Managed by the Library of Congress • Goals • Preserve historic newspapers • Provide increased access to historic newspapers • Keyword searchable • Freely available • No need to visit a library or archives

  4. Why Digitize Newspapers? • Newspapers are the fundamentals of modern history! • Provide in-depth analysis on a variety of topics • Local, state, regional, national news • Social history • Business reports • Unique historical resource • Time-saving!

  5. National Digital Newspaper Program in Ohio • Ohio’s contribution to Chronicling America • First grant cycle: July 1, 2008 – June 30, 2010 • 14 papers from 11 counties • 1880-1922 • Almost 110,000 pages • Second grant cycle: July 1, 2010 – August 31, 2012 • 26 papers from 21 counties (3 papers overlap) • Focus on Civil War era content (1845-1894) • Over 100,000 pages

  6. Newspaper Selection • Advisory board • Librarians, educators, archivists, curators, historians, etc. • Selection criteria • Historical significance • Geographic coverage • Chronological coverage • At least one paper from each OHIOLHA region (10,000 pages per region) • Represent as many Ohio voices as possible

  7. Newspaper Selections: Northwest

  8. Newspaper Selections: Northeast

  9. Newspaper Selections: Central

  10. Newspaper Selections: Southwest

  11. Newspaper Selections: Southeast

  12. From Microfilm to Digital Images

  13. NDNP Process Overview • Selection and Analysis Preliminary selection (Advisory Board) NO Microfilm analysis No digitization YES Final selection

  14. NDNP Process Overview Review microfilm (collect reel and issue level metadata) Duplicate master microfilm (microfilm vendor) Scan microfilm (digitization vendor)

  15. NDNP Process Overview Receive hard drives Perform quality assurance on images and metadata Ship to LC for ingestion into Chronicling America

  16. Chronicling America • NDNP’s final product • Hosted by the Library of Congress • Contains over 4.5 million images • Over 700 papers • 27 states & D.C. • Updated on rolling basis

  17. NDNP Participants

  18. Chronicling America http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov or http://www.chroniclingamerica.org

  19. Chronicling America Home Page

  20. Search Bar Features • Search Pages (Basic Search) • Advanced Search • All Digitized Newspapers 1836-1922 • US Newspaper Directory

  21. Browsing:All Digitized Newspapers 1836-1922 • State • Newspaper • Browse Issues • No. of Issues • Earliest Issue • Latest Issue • More Info

  22. Browsing: Browse Issues (Calendar View) Hyperlinks to issues available digitally Can change year to view Link to view all front pages

  23. Browsing: Show all front pages

  24. Browsing: Earliest and Latest Issue

  25. More Info: Newspaper Directory Entry

  26. Recommended Topics • Topics widely reported upon by these newspapers • People, places, events, fads, etc. • Provides timeline, search terms/strategies, links to sample articles

  27. Recommended Topics Examples

  28. Search Pages (Basic Search) • Limit search by: • State • Year Range

  29. Advanced Search • Even more ways to limit search! • Can ask search engine to look for your terms in different ways • Can avoid results not relevant to your search

  30. Sample Search Results

  31. Search Results – List View

  32. Search Results – Show only front Pages

  33. Search Results – Newspaper Viewing Screen

  34. Viewing an Image • Navigation Bar • View Options (Text, PDF) • Download • Zoom • Toggle to Full Screen • Clip Image (Print)

  35. Viewing an Image: Full Screen View Toggle full screen button

  36. Printing an Image

  37. Using Chronicling America Podcast Series • Covering (almost) everything from basic searches to printing to advanced search tips • Available at Ohio Historical Society’s YouTube Channel • www.youtube.com/ohiohistory • For more information, visit: • www.ohiohistoryhost.org/ohiomemory/odnp/resources/podcasts

  38. For More Information… • NDNP-OH Project Wiki • www.ohiohistory.org/newspapers/ • Ohio Digital Newspaper Portal • www.ohiohistoryhost.org/ohiomemory/odnp • National Digital Newspaper Program • Library of Congress: www.loc.gov/ndnp • National Endowment for the Humanities: www.neh.gov/projects/ndnp.html

  39. Project Contact • Jenni Salamon, Project Coordinator, NDNP-OH • jsalamon@ohiohistory.org • 614-297-2579 • Kevin Latta, Quality Control Technician • klatta@ohiohistory.org • 614-297-2524

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