newspapers & iiif
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My Newspaper Project ExperienceStates:
● Pennsylvania● Oregon● Utah
Standard:
RAIS Image Server
https://github.com/uoregon-libraries/rais-image-server
Why Newspapers?
Small Sample of Openly Available Newspapers
Caribbean Newspaper Digital Library
201 titles
Chronicling America 10,184,006 pages
Europeana 3,666,594 issues
National Library of Finland 1,960,921 pages (open)
National Library of Wales 1,100,000 pages; 15,000,000 articles
National Library Singapore 200 titles
Trove 188,896,865 articles
Chronicling America - Library of Congresshttp://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045211/1921-05-24/ed-1/seq-19/
The European Library http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/newspapers/issue/3000115814555?hp=1&page=1
http://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten/view/index?identifier=ddd%3A011213512%3Ampeg21
National Library of Singaporehttp://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Page/straitschinherald18940503-1.1.1.aspx
Trove - National Library of Australiahttp://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article84865007
Mass Media
“I’m doing a happy dance. I was able to access the website today, and am having fun reading these
newspapers.”
Topaz Times. (01 Jan 1944), Vol. 6 (1). Utah Digital Newspapers.http://udn.lib.utah.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/topaz2/id/7787/rec/1
Klamath Tribune, (01 Nov 1956), Vol. 1 (1), http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/2004260350/1956-11-01/ed-1/seq-1/
Smoke Signals (01 Dec 2013) http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn93050714/2013-12-01/ed-1/seq-1/
Compared with Other Collections
IR: Institutional Repository
CHO: other Cultural Heritage Objects
Sample month - March 2014 PageViews from University of Oregon Libraries digital library collections
PageViews Further Compared
Organization Newspapers Other Digital Collections
Trove (2013 monthly averages) 6 1
Singapore(2013 monthly averages)
3.6 1
New Zealand(February 2014)
5 1
Zarndt, Frederick, “All about historic newspapers digitization,” 2014 International Digital Library Conference in Kuala Lumpur http://www.slideshare.net/cowboyMontana/20140408-digital-newspapers-collections-idlc-kuala-lumpur-33573362
Approximate ratio of PageViews for newspapers to PageViews for other digital collections
Why IIIF?
Zoom, Pan, & Clip
Evening public ledger. (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, May 20, 1921, Night Extra Closing Stock Prices, Page 27, Image 27, http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045211/1921-05-20/ed-1/seq-27/
Newspapers through Mirador
Chronicling America content with IIIF shim viewed through Mirador courtesy Rob Sanderson, Stanford University
Current Text Correction / Annotation Systems
California Digital Newspaper Collection - http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc
Klamath Tribune, (01 Nov 1956), Vol. 1 (1), http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/2004260350/1956-11-01/ed-1/seq-1/
Open Annotations
Toveritar. (Astoria, Or.), 08 Feb. 1916. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/2011260133/1916-02-08/ed-1/seq-1/>
What’s Next?
Possible IIIF MappingNewspapers IIIF
Title Collection
Issue Manifest
Edition Manifest
Article Range
Page Canvas
Image Image
Alto Annotations
Drafted at the Open-ONI meeting, Eugene, Oregon, U.S.A, July, 2015, https://github.com/open-oni
Manifest
Ghent University Library, http://shared.ugent.be/IIIF/archive.ugent.be:B0A2518C-1729-11E2-A8D9-5A520D0ED9C1/manifest
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87078082/issues/1912/
The daily Gate City. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, December 08, 1915, http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025182/1915-12-08/ed-1/seq-1/