digital library of spanish old newspapers and magazines national library of spain

Digital library of Spanish old newspapers and magazines

National Library of Spain

Introduction

The Newspapers Digital Library is the begining of the Biblioteca Digital Hispánica, which aims to disseminate through the Internet the Spanish Bibliographic Heritage preserved at the National Library

In this first stage, public access to the Digital Library of Spanish Old Newspapers is offered, with 143 titles, edited between 1772 and 1933, which means to be able to access 500.000 digitised pages.

Goals

1. To offer public access to the Spanish National Library old newspapers collection

2. To become a reference to research and consultation of the Spanish press

3. To open cooperation channels with other centers to complete and find collections

Technical Characteristics

Following the recommendations of UNESCO’s World Memory Programm :

Minimum resolution of 300 p.p.p. According to the characteristics of publications: RGB colour, grey

scales 256 levels or white and black The files format is TIFF Compression CCITT Group IV to white

and black and TIFF Compression JPEG to grey scales or colour. OCR reading of each digitised page. PDF files with hidden text and JBIG2 compression to disseminate

images on the web All PDF files will have miniatures

Old newspapers like historical resource Political Chronicle Biographic data and cultural activities Socioeconomic research Mean of transmission of literary text Technical and cientific evolution Study of the History of the press

Cronological scope

1772 1927

Subject scope: Political Newspapers: 46 titles

Subject scope: Satirical Newspapers: 16 titles

Subject scope: Cultural Press: 16 titles

Subject scope:

Pleasant Press (femenine): 12 titles

Subject scope: Literary Press: 7 titles

Subject scope: Humorous Press: 7 titles

Subject scope: Press of Events: 7 titles

Subject scope: Scientific reviews

Subject scope: Travel Magazines

Subject scope: Ilustrated magazines

Subject scope: Sport Press

Subject scope: Religious Press

Subject scope: Magazines for Children

Subject scope: Bullfighter magazines

Subject scope: Sensationalist Press

Subject scope: Free (of charge) Press

TITLE

PLACE OF PUBLICATION

YEAR

When you select a title, the place of publication and the year is updated in concordance to the

collection available

TITLE

PLACE OF PUBLICATION

CITY OF PUBLICATION

DATE OF PUBLICATION

DESCRIPTION

LINK TO BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Bibliographic record in the catalog of the

National Library of Spain

Link to the Digital Library

Link to paper items in the Library

Paper items in the Library

Paper items

Microfilmed items

Digitalized items

ITEMS IN DIGITAL LIBRARY

Go to digital items

Statistics

Month Visitors Volume Pages Files Access

April 13.416 362,56 GB 92.579 471.546 836.791

May 14.423 351,45 GB 107.749 545.374 893.893

June(1-15)5.489 112,54 GB 38.158 200.100 341.702

Total 33.328 826,56 GB 238.486 1.217.020 2.072.386

Statistics: average data per day

Month Access Files Pages Visitors

April 27.893 15.718 3.085 447

May 28.835 17.592 3.475 465

June (1-15) 22.089 13.022 2.458 345

Next future

To increase as much as possible the number of digitized titles and digitized pages: Between 2007-2008 we are going to invest more than

500.000 € to get more than 3 million of new digitized pages

To integrate this collection – at least at title level – in the OAI Server of Hispanic Digital Library

Thank you very much

Teresa Malo de Molina Technical Director

directora.tecnica@bne.es