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Europeana Newspapers Project
A Gateway to European Newspapers Online
This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp 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 availability
Improving accessibility
This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp
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
This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp
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
This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp
Who
12 content providers
2 networking partners
4 technology providers
1 aggregator
This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp
Who – associated partners
This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp 7
How
Drastically improve search and retrieve possibilities through refinement• Optical Character Recognition• Optical Layout Recognition• Named Entity Recognition (persons, places and organisations)
This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp 8
How
Evaluating quality and developing prediction tools for individual libraries to improve OCR results.
This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp 9
How
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Metadata standardisation and recommendations
This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp 10
How
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Building a content browser for newspapers
This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp 11
How
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Share best practices via workshops and national information days
More information on our website
http://www.europeana-newspapers.eu/