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Europeana Newspapers9 June 2014 – London– Morning Edition

Published by Alastair Dunning, The European Library@alastairdunning, www.slideshare.net/alastairdunning

On 15th April 1912, the passenger ship Titanic, carrying over 2,000 passengers and crew, crashed into an iceberg on

its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York

Responses to the Titanic Disaster

http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=nzg&datum=19120417&seite=1&zoom=33

http://kranten.delpher.nl/nl/view/index?query=de+telegraaf+titanic&coll=ddd&image=ddd%3A110546692%3Ampeg21%3Aa0026&page=2&maxperpage=10&sortfield=date

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k289555z

http://hemerotecadigital.bne.es/details.vm?q=id:0000817544&s=0

News travels at different speeds, with importance

that diminishes at different rates.This is true now

as is was in 1912.(though the web changes things …)

The Europeana Newspapers project is making this kind of

investigation easier

A cross-searchable newspapers interface at The European Library

(with issue-level metadata forwarded to Europeana)

http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/newspapers

Currently: Search through full text of

around 2 million pages of full text

By 2015:

10m pages of full text, up to

2m issues

Searching by keyword, and organise by language, date, source library, title

Currently: Search through metadata records relating

to 1.12m issues – with links to source libraries

By 2015: Search through metadata records relating

to up to 4m issues - with links to source librariesBrowse by date or map

Full Text from following libraries

•Bibliotheque nationale de France / National Library France•Koninklijke Bibliotheek / National Library of the Netherlands•Landesbibliothek Dr. Friedrich Teßmann / Teßmann Library•Eesti Rahvusraamatukogu / Estonian National Library• Kansalliskirjasto / National Library of Finland• Latvijas Nacionala Biblioteka / National Library of Latvia•Biblioteka Narodowa / National Library of Poland•Milli Kutuphane Baskanligi / National Library of Turkey• Österreichische Nationalbibliothek / Austrian National Library•Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin / Berlin State Library•Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg / State and University Library• Univerzitet u Beogradu / University Library of Belgrade

Searching by title

Issue Level Records from following libraries

•National Library of Wales•St. Cyril and Methodius National Library / The National Library of Bulgaria•National Library of Czech Republic•National and University Library in Zagreb•Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België / Bibliothèque royale de Belgique•Narodna in univerzitetna knjinica / National and University Library of Slovenia•National Library of Portugal•National Library of Romania•Landsbókasafn Íslands - Háskólabókasafn / National and Univeristy Library of Iceland National Library of Spain•Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg / National Library of Luxembourg

Finding matching results in single or multiple issues

Highlighting search terms

So far, okay. Similar functionality to other national and regional digital

libraries of newspapers

See other archives via:https://www.google.com/maps/ms?msid=217164746645697066594.0004c3d764fcb71ed2314&msa=0

But what was the user response to an aggregation of European

newspaper libraries ?

Results of Usability Testing: http://www.europeana-newspapers.eu/wp-

content/uploads/2014/05/The-European-Library-Newspaper-Archive-Usability-testing-Report-

April-2014.pdf

“Aggregated view of content from many sources highly

valued.There was a strong positive

reaction to the availability of the archive.”

“Many saying they would be keen to return to the site as

the content expands.”

“Ability to search over geographic map was highly valued”

Plenty of quibbles about design

- positions of advanced options- re-order list of results- manipulating facets

Much greater expectations of functionality once logged in

For example,Saved searches

New content notification

“Much of the value of the site to participants was provided by the images of the documents.

Participants expected to be able to save a 'local' copy once they had located content of

relevance.

As no download facility is provided, this led to some frustration and undermined the overall

potential value of the site for some participants.”

Timetable for rest of projectNow – Protype version of interface shared with projectThroughout 2014 - Ongoing creation of OCR, and other related technical work (OLR, Named Entities)Throughout 2014 – Live version of website improved / usability testing / added contentAutumn 2014 - Final project conferenceLate 2014 - Newspaper browser completed with content and tools from project

More information athttp://www.europeana-newspapers.eu/

Interface at http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/newspapers/

Things the users didn’t say(but I thought they would)

Why can’t I edit the text ?

(Our sample was researchers/ maybe it is other communities interested in crowdsourcing?)

Note: If time permits, The European Library will develop some crowdsourcing feature

Can I download text for data mining?

Remember: Digital Humanists are still a small percentage of humanists and users

Note: Many of the texts are marked public domain, so this is feasible in legal terms

Number of digitised pages in interface: c.2m

Number of digitised pages in European libraries: c.130m

Number of physical pages in European libraries: 1.5bn+

Source: European Newspaper Survey Report http://www.europeana-newspapers.eu/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/D4.1-Europeana-newspapers-survey-report.pdf

The project digital library is only a fraction of the newspaper archive of the continent, indeed the world

As libraries, how should we represent that absence to users ?

Should such absence be represented in the interface itself ?

Vast white

spaces in the list of results ?

Provided standardised descriptions of digitised resources ?

Standardised information for every digital resource of presenting collections, content, licencing, re-use

Charts and graphs external to the interface ?

There are other issues too OCR quality varies Some pages (2m by 2015) have articles

segmentation Some library content has named entity

extraction effecting search results Different licensing statements from

different countries Date of copyright boundaries different in

each country

How should we allow users better ways to understand the digital

library ?

What role can the API play in this?

Can opening up the data in the digital library and allowing it to

explored in different ways ?

Traditional Model With an API

Interface(Created by Library)

Data(Published by Library)

Interface(Created by Third Party)

API – Application Programming Interfaces

Pioneering work of Trove API

Interface(Created by Library)

Data(Published by

Library)

Trove Newspapers site as published by National Library of

Australia, and based on data provided by Library

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper

Trove Newspapers statistics develolped by third party, based

on data provided by libraryhttp://wraggelabs.com/shed/trove/graphs/

Interface(Created by Third

Party)

Headline Roulette, developed by third party, based on data

provided by libraryhttp://wraggelabs.com/shed/headline-

roulette/

Party)

Word Count of Articles, developed by third party, based

on data provided by libraryhttp://dhistory.org/frontpages/53/words/

Party)

Sounds great !But … ?

How many people in this audience would now how to build an

interface on top of API?

How many users do you know who could build on top of an API ?

That is the problem I leave you to discuss

Thank you.

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