Newspapers & IIIF

IIIF: Access to the World’s Images Ghent 2015

December 8

Karen Estlundkestlund@psu.edu

My Newspaper Project ExperienceStates:

● Pennsylvania● Oregon● Utah

Standard:

RAIS Image Server

https://github.com/uoregon-libraries/rais-image-server

Why Newspapers?

Small Sample of Openly Available Newspapers

Caribbean Newspaper Digital Library

201 titles

Chronicling America 10,184,006 pages

Europeana 3,666,594 issues

National Library of Finland 1,960,921 pages (open)

National Library of Wales 1,100,000 pages; 15,000,000 articles

National Library Singapore 200 titles

Trove 188,896,865 articles

Chronicling America - Library of Congresshttp://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045211/1921-05-24/ed-1/seq-19/

The European Library http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/newspapers/issue/3000115814555?hp=1&page=1

http://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten/view/index?identifier=ddd%3A011213512%3Ampeg21

National Library of Singaporehttp://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Page/straitschinherald18940503-1.1.1.aspx

Trove - National Library of Australiahttp://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article84865007

Mass Media

“I’m doing a happy dance. I was able to access the website today, and am having fun reading these

newspapers.”

Topaz Times. (01 Jan 1944), Vol. 6 (1). Utah Digital Newspapers.http://udn.lib.utah.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/topaz2/id/7787/rec/1

Klamath Tribune, (01 Nov 1956), Vol. 1 (1), http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/2004260350/1956-11-01/ed-1/seq-1/

Smoke Signals (01 Dec 2013) http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn93050714/2013-12-01/ed-1/seq-1/

Compared with Other Collections

IR: Institutional Repository

CHO: other Cultural Heritage Objects

Sample month - March 2014 PageViews from University of Oregon Libraries digital library collections

PageViews Further Compared

Organization Newspapers Other Digital Collections

Trove (2013 monthly averages) 6 1

Singapore(2013 monthly averages)

3.6 1

New Zealand(February 2014)

5 1

Zarndt, Frederick, “All about historic newspapers digitization,” 2014 International Digital Library Conference in Kuala Lumpur http://www.slideshare.net/cowboyMontana/20140408-digital-newspapers-collections-idlc-kuala-lumpur-33573362

Approximate ratio of PageViews for newspapers to PageViews for other digital collections

Why IIIF?

Zoom, Pan, & Clip

Evening public ledger. (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, May 20, 1921, Night Extra Closing Stock Prices, Page 27, Image 27, http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045211/1921-05-20/ed-1/seq-27/

Newspapers through Mirador

Chronicling America content with IIIF shim viewed through Mirador courtesy Rob Sanderson, Stanford University

Current Text Correction / Annotation Systems

California Digital Newspaper Collection - http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc

Klamath Tribune, (01 Nov 1956), Vol. 1 (1), http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/2004260350/1956-11-01/ed-1/seq-1/

Open Annotations

Toveritar. (Astoria, Or.), 08 Feb. 1916. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/2011260133/1916-02-08/ed-1/seq-1/>

What’s Next?

Possible IIIF MappingNewspapers IIIF

Title Collection

Issue Manifest

Edition Manifest

Article Range

Page Canvas

Image Image

Alto Annotations

Drafted at the Open-ONI meeting, Eugene, Oregon, U.S.A, July, 2015, https://github.com/open-oni

Manifest

Ghent University Library, http://shared.ugent.be/IIIF/archive.ugent.be:B0A2518C-1729-11E2-A8D9-5A520D0ED9C1/manifest

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87078082/issues/1912/

The daily Gate City. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, December 08, 1915, http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025182/1915-12-08/ed-1/seq-1/