Europeana Newspapers

…in a nutshell

French Information Day

Hans-Jörg Lieder, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin –

Preußischer Kulturbesitz

Copyright: Olmsted County Historical Society

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

Facts and Figures

• Europeana Newspapers – EU ICT-PSP Best Practice Network

• Start in February 2012, End in January 2015

• 18 partners, 11 associated partners, 22 networking partners from 28 countries

• Budget: € 5.16M – EC funding: € 4.12M

• Project coordination: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz

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

Europeana Newspapers Partners

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Red = Project Partner

Blue = AssociatedPartner

Green = NetworkingPartner

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

Image to Text

• 8 million pages OCR

• 2 million pages OLR / article separation

• Named Entity Recognition (NER) in 3 languages

(Dutch, German, French)

• Metadata for >18 million pages in Europeana

• Metadata for >28 million pages in ZDB (Union • Catalogue of Serials), incl. “born digital” newspapers

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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 5

Content

20 languages

ca. 950 titles

Country Partner TitelStartdate (overall)

Enddate (overall)

France BnF 80 1814 1944Germany SBB 6 1872 1940  SUB-HH 16 1721 1945Netherlands KB 203 1618 1900Italy LFT 15 1813 1949Estonia NLE 43 1852 1944Finland NLF 11 1900 1910Latvia NLL 117 1868 1955Poland NLP 118 1914 1939Turkey NLT 22 1818 1928Austria ONB 275 1686 1945Serbia UB 45 1830 1944

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

Text search

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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

Navigation by calendar

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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

Geographical browsing

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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

Navigation by title

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Presentation in Europeana

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

Metadata

• Europeana Newspapers METS/ALTO Profile (ENMAP)

• Contributions to ALTO v2.x, v3.0

• Captioning structural metadata with Structify

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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

Development of software

• Tools for the standard-based creation of images/ conversion

• Tools for quality prediction

• Tools for the analysis of OCR results

• …

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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

Media, News, Events

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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

Where we are

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Thank you!hans-joerg.lieder@sbb.spk-berlin.de

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