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Using Digital Technologies to unlock history for researchers.
Rose Holley – Manager Newspaper Digitisation Program
Australian Academy of the Humanities Symposium: Humanities Futures
16 November 2007, Griffith University, Brisbane
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Status of the ProgramNovember 2006 Minister for Arts and
Sports approval
Budget approval -$8 million for 3 million pages over 4 years
Signed contracts with digitisation suppliers
April 2007 program pilot phase commences
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Process in briefNational sourcing of selected newspaper microfilm masters.
Masters scanned by W & F Pascoe, Sydney to tiff files.
NLA perform quality assurance, add metadata.
Apex Publishing, India process tiff files - OCR, zoning, xml markup.
NLA QA files, ingest to system, create derivatives for delivery.
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Content and CoverageNational Content
Initially a title from each state
Focus on major titles from each state first
Anticipated that ‘regional’ titles may be contributed later
Coverage: published between 1803 – 1954
(out of copyright)
West Australian
Northern Territory Times
Courier Mail
Advertiser Sydney Gazette
Argus
Mercury
Canberra Times
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First Newspaper
• First page of first Australian newspaper ever published
The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser
Saturday March 5 1803
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Through 150 years
• Up to 1954 (when Copyright applies), and later if agreement with publishers.
The Argus 22 August 1945
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Progress
• IT Infrastructure implemented and software developed (NLA)
• Pilot phase ongoing: digitisation of newspapers and conversion into full text (Contractors)
• Development of search and delivery system (NLA)
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Digital Newspaper Searching
• Newspapers full text searchable
• Image captions searchable
• Search across multiple papers e.g. by persons name.
• Refine searching by:– Date– Newspaper title– State published
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Browsing and Viewing
• Browse papers page by page
• Zoom in and out of image – to read small text– to view context of article within page layout
• Print article or entire page or issue
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Zoom technology
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Refine search by categories
• News• Advertising• Birth Death Marriage notices• Obituaries• Editorial commentary and letters• Shipping News• Arts and leisure• Detailed lists, results, guides
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Search Illustrations
Categorised as:
• Photo
• Cartoon
• Map
• Graph
• Illustration
Captions searchable
Canberra Times 26 July 1928 page 6
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Other features
Possibilities under consideration:
• OCR correction by users
• Personal annotation of articles by users
• Tagging results
• Clustering results
• Searching across other relevant resources (paid subscription services, international resources, other digital resources)
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Relationship - ANPLANWebsite: http://www.nla.gov.au/anplan/
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National Help• NLA working with State and Territory
Libraries as part of ANPLAN.
• Libraries suggest titles and dates and provide microfilm for digitising.
• ANPLAN members and other stakeholders will provide feedback on the search and delivery prototype.
• Developing model for national contribution of regional newspapers.
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Keep Up to Date with Progress• Website: http://www.nla.gov.au/ndp/
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