WARN - Count in xref table is 0 at offset 1871099 Europeana Newspapers Workshop Marieke Willems, LIBER Mail: marieke.willems@kb.nl LIBER2013, Munich, June 26th, 2013 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 making 18 million digitised historical newspaper pages available via one aggregator. 10 million of these pages will be fully searchable and retrievable. Values: European cultures & sharing best practices Adding value: improving accessibility & availability 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 Recently associated 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 ment 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 7 How Vast amount of digitised historical newspaper pages from 12 European libraries with different cultures and languages. 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 8 How Drastically improve search and retrieve possibilities: • OCR • Search per article • Search Named Entities - Places - Persons - Organisations Image: KB 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 9 How Quality assessment and evaluation tools for individual libraries to improve OCR 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 10 How Metadata alignment & recommendations Image: Ukenaut 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 11 How Building a content browser for newspapers Image: HenrikS 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 12 How Share Best Practices via 1. www.europeana-newspapers.eu 2. Social Media 3. Workshops and national information days Image: Australian National Maritime Museum 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 13 Join us at…. Workshop Aggregation and Presentation Joint conference The European Library, Europeana Newspapers, ARROW, CENDARI, Europeana Collections 1914-1918 16-17th of September 2013, Amsterdam Workshop Newspapers in Europe and the digital agenda for Europe. 29-30 September 2014, British Library, London Latvian Information Day 22 August 2013, Riga 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 1. Europeana Newspapers shares with you: • The extent of newspaper digitisation in European Libraries • Refinement • Quality Assessment • Metadata 2. You share with your neighbour during the Buzz 3. We all share best practices, ideas and challenges during the panel discussion Best Practice Sharing at this Workshop Image from Library of Congress 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 What is this Buzz-thing? At the very end of the project presentations: 1. Look at one of your neighbours (preferably one you do not know yet) 2. Take 3 minutes to discuss what you’ve just heard 3. Take your post-it and write down 1 question for the discussion panel (2 if you are very fast) 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 Ready to share? Post your questions on the flipchart Image from Gene Hunt Thank you for your attention! http://www.europeana-newspapers.eu/ @eurnews, #eurnewsWS Share your Best Practices with us via: And sign up for our newsletter!