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The Europeana Newspapers Project held a workshop in Amsterdam in September 2013. This presentation from Örn Hrafnkelsson shows the work of the National Library of Iceland to present an online version of historical newspapers and periodicals from the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.
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www.timarit.is digital library of historical newspapers and periodicals from the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st centuries Örn Hrafnkelsson Director for National Collections and Digital Conversion National and University Library of Iceland September 2013
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Page 1: Timarit: Iceland's historic newspapers online.

www.timarit.is digital library of historical newspapers and periodicals from the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st centuries Örn Hrafnkelsson

Director for National Collections and Digital Conversion

National and University Library of Iceland

September 2013

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www.timarit.is

• All historical Icelandic newspapers and periodicals

• Selection of material • All published titles up to 1940

• All published newspapers in Iceland up till today

• Requests and suggestions from users and library staff

• Requests from publishers

• Fixed price for each page

• Agreements about copyrights

• 4,5 million pages in total and is growing

• 811 titles are available today

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Second version of timarit.is in English from 2007

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Screenshot of the third version in English from 2008

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Newest version 2011 – opening page

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Icelandic is a language with inflection

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Connecting databases

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Mobile version opened 2014

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