This poster was designed to provide quick overview of the Nevada Digital Newspaper Project for the Genealogy Fair in Las Vegas, NV (June 2017). It summarizes the newspaper titles selected for digitization, some facts about the project and some fun facts from the backstage which demonstrate the complexity of the project.

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Digitized newspapers
Carson Daily Appeal
Ely Record
Tonopah Bonanza
Currently digitizing
Elko Independent
Eureka Sentinel
Goldfield News
Gold Hill Daily News
Central Nevadan
Fallon Standard
Gardnerville Record
Lovelock Tribune
Lyon County Times
The Silver State
Wadsworth Dispatch
Walker Lake Bulletin
Coming next
QUICK FACTS
Contributing to the largest
free online newspaper repository
www.chronliclingamerica.loc.gov
www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov
Nevada titles carefully
selected for digitization
based on:
Quality OCR ensures efficient
search in thousands of historic
pages!
Multiple applications:
 Genealogy research
 K-12 learning activities
 Student assignments
 Nevada history research
 Entertainment: Nevada perspective of historic events
Principle investigators
Jason Vaughan | Cory Lampert
Project staff
Marina Georgieva | Oscar Giurcovich
 historical significance
 research value
 image quality
 geographic representation
 diversity
102,577 historic newspaper pages
from Nevada available online!
100,000 more pages coming up by August 2018!
 Collation: 1,200 pages = 2 days
 Digitization: 10,000 pages = 2 months
 Project goal: 100,000 pages = 10 batches
 10 batches = 18 months
 1 batch ≈ 600GB
 Quality review: using 2 different
software tools ensures high quality
product for Chronicling America
users
 Data transfer: fastest way to trans-
fer this much data is on hard drives
Digitized newspapers back up:
 Library of Congress archives
the physical microfilm reels
 Life-expectancy of silver-
coated microfilm reels is 500
years!
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