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Europeana Newspapers Ulrike Kölsch Mail: [email protected] The Hague, September 26th, 2013 A Gateway to European Newspapers online

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Europeana Newspapers

Ulrike Kölsch

Mail: [email protected]

The Hague, September 26th, 2013

A Gateway to European Newspapers online

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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How

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

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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

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How

Image: HenrikS

Building a content browser for newspapers

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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

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How

Image: Ukenaut

Metadata standardisation and recommendations

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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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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

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How

Image: Australian National Maritime Museum

Share best practices via workshops and national information days

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More information on the website

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