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Europeana Newspapers Project A Gateway to European Newspapers Online

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.

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Europeana Newspapers Project A Gateway to European Newspapers Online

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  1. Europeana Newspapers ProjectA Gateway to European Newspapers Online

  2. 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 2

  3. Why Newspapers 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

  4. 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

  5. Who 4 technology providers 12 content providers 1 aggregator 2 networking partners

  6. Who – associated partners

  7. How Drastically improve search and retrieve possibilities through refinement Optical Character Recognition Optical Layout Recognition Named Entity Recognition (persons, places and organisations) 7

  8. How Evaluating quality and developing prediction tools for individual libraries to improve OCR results. 8

  9. How Metadata standardisation and recommendations Image: Ukenaut 9

  10. How Building a content browser for newspapers Image: HenrikS 10

  11. How Share best practices via workshops and national information days Image: Australian National Maritime Museum 11

  12. More information on our website http://www.europeana-newspapers.eu/

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