Newspapers & IIIF
IIIF: Access to the World’s Images
Ghent 2015
December 8
Karen Estlund
kestlund@psu.edu

My Newspaper Project Experience
States:
● 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 Congress
http://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 Singapore
http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Page/straitschinherald18940503-1.1.1.aspx

Trove - National Library of Australia
http://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 Mapping
Newspapers 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/