History in a digital world: helping communities access and explore their heritage through newspapers. Cathy Pilgrim – Director, Australian Newspaper Digitisation Program (ANDP) Queensland Public.
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History in a digital world:
helping communities access and
explore their heritage through
newspapers.
Cathy Pilgrim – Director, Australian Newspaper Digitisation Program (ANDP)
Queensland Public Library Association Conference
20 October 2008, State Library of Queensland
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Presentation outline
Comments on newspaper publishing in Australia
Australian Newspaper Plan (ANPlan)
Australian Newspaper Digitisation Program (ANDP)
objectives
ANDP workflow overview
Australian Newspapers beta service
Future directions
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Front page of the first
Australian newspaper
The Sydney Gazette and New South
Wales Advertiser, March 5, 1803
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Website: www.nla.gov.au/anplan
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History of ANPlan
Established in 1992 as the National Plan for
Australian Newspapers (NPLAN)
Name changed to Australian Newspaper Plan
(ANPlan) in 2006
An initiative of the Consortium of Australian State
Libraries (CASL) - now know as NSLA (National and
State Libraries Australasia)
Managed by the National Library since 2001
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Collecting
Partners are required to:
Collect hardcopies of all newspapers as published
Identify, locate and collect missing titles and issues
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Preservation
Partners are required to:
Retain one hardcopy of every newspaper title
Create an archival standard master reproduction
and a working copy of every title
Provide appropriate housing and management of
all copies
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Access
Partners are required to:
Catalogue all print and microfilm holdings of
newspapers into Libraries Australia catalogue
Provide easy access pathways to the content of each
title
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ANDP Objectives
Increase access to Australian newspapers
Build a national service that will provide free online
access from the first Australian newspaper published
in 1803 through to the end of 1954
Key Features of the service
Online access
Freely available
Full text searchable
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National Content
Initial focus on
major titles from
each state and
territory
Anticipate that
‘regional’ titles may
be contributed later
Northern
Territory
Times
Courier Mail
Sydney Morning Herald
West Australian
Advertiser
Coverage: published
between 1803 – 1954
(out of copyright)
Sydney Gazette
Canberra Times
Argus
Mercury
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$1 Million Grant from the Vincent Fairfax Family
Foundation to digitise The Sydney Morning Herald to 1954
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1. Identify and locate selected newspaper microfilm
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2. Digitisation
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3. Quality Assure digital images
Use 2 widescreen
monitors placed
vertically. Can view
complete page within
context of issue.
Add metadata, identify
missing and duplicate
pages within an issue.
Prepare batches to send
for OCR processing.
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Page verification
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4. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of pages and article zoning
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Article categories
News
Includes a wide range of subject matter such as
current affairs, law courts and crime, official
appointments and notices, commerce and business
news, sporting news and social news, etc.
Advertising
Display advertising and classified advertising
including items and services for sale, employment
notices, public and personal notices, etc.
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Article categories
Family Notices
Birth, death and marriage notices and related
announcements including weddings, anniversaries,
in memoriam, bereavement, birthdays,
congratulations, etc.
Detailed Lists, Results and Guides
Includes sporting results, radio and television
guides, weather forecasts, election results,
education results and courses, stock market lists,
crossword puzzles, word games, etc.
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Processing in India
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5. Quality Assurance
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Beta service: www.ndp.beta.nla.gov.au
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Clustering of results sets by:
Newspaper title
Article category
Illustrated
Date range
Article word count
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Correct electronically translated text
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Add note/comment to article
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Examples of comments:
The name Rudolph Membergle should read Rudolph
Mornberger
Typhus and Colonial Fever outbreak in Toowoomba
Hospital
The writer would appear to be Corporal John Heaney
No 91, 6th Bn, who was wounded in the left leg at
Gallipoli on 14 July 1915
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Add tags to articles
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Functionality and design
Derivative sizes and zoom technology testing
Search and Browse features
Display of results and refinement of results
User interaction with source (web 2.0)
Interface design
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Prototype wireframe
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Prototype service developed and tested with Australian state libraries
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Beta service: www.ndp.beta.nla.gov.au
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Libraries as content enablers:
Access imperative
Content in context
Ongoing access
Content description
Collaboration
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www.news.google.com.au/archivesearch
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http://www.nla.gov.au/ndp
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Questions
Australian Newspapers beta service
http://ndpbeta.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home
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Infrastructure and Storage
Online Storage – 70 TB:
Working space for images in processing 40TB for 1 million pages
Search and delivery derivatives 30TB for 3 million pages
XML files, database systems and indexes 1 TB
Offline Storage – unlimited for master images on tape.
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