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