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

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How

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

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How

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

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How

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Metadata standardisation and recommendations

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How

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Building a content browser for newspapers

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How

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Share best practices via workshops and national information days

More information on our website

http://www.europeana-newspapers.eu/