Presentation about the Nevada Digital Newspaper Project workflow and social media strategic plan.

1. NVDNP Annual Meeting
Second cycle 2016-2018
April 17, 2017
Carson City, NV

2. Topics
• Project updates
• Project workflow
• Statistics
• Website
• Planned website additions
• Google Maps

3. Project updates
• New project staff
• Marina Georgieva, NDNP Project Manager
• Oscar Giurcovich, NDNP Project Technician
• New digitization vendor
• Apex CoVantage
• Secondary duplication vendor
• UC Berkeley Libraries
• Redesigned website
• www.nvdnp.wordpress.com
• Partially altered workflow
• Changes occurred to ensure efficient collaboration with Apex

4. Project workflow: overview
• Title selection
• Advisory board prioritized and selected titles for digitization
• Duplication
• NSLA and UC Berkeley duplicate reels based on approved Title List
• Collation
• Titles are collated based on Title List priority
• Titles are divided into 10 batches each one consisting of 10,000 pages
• Digitization
• Apex digitizes the images and encodes the metadata from the collation
• Quality review
• NVDNP team reviews data to ensure high quality product
• Submitting data to LC
• Data is submitted in 10 batches
• Depositing reels in LC
• Final step after all batches are accepted

5. • Collation
• New collation spreadsheets – same metadata
• Advantages: simplified workflow
• Fewer fields to fill
• Fewer spreadsheets to manage
• Simplified submission process: Basecamp vs. iArchives portal
• Digitization
• New vendor – new scanning process
• Reels shipped in 4 big batches instead of 10 small ones
• Advantages: saves time!
• Scanning ahead of collation
• Encoding data after receiving metadata spreadsheets
• Flexibility what’s included in each batch
Project workflow: what’s new

6. • Quality review
• Simplified QR process
• Simulates the user environment
• Allows us to interact with the data the same way as users do
• Allows more efficient data review
• Saves time
• Easier to catch errors
• Installing local instance of Chronicling America which replicates the
official project website
• Each batch is uploaded and reviewed separately
• All clumsy steps involved in using the iArchives portal are omitted
• QR feedback is simplified, too
Project workflow: what’s new

7. • Goal: 100,000 pages digitized by Aug. 2018
• Current collation numbers:
• Total pages collated: 25,016
• Total reels collated: 29
• Total batches collated: 2.5
• Reels prepared for collation: 77
• Reels shipped to Apex for scanning: 24
• Sample reel (584 pages)
• Pending acceptance by LC
• After acceptance will be reworked into production batch
Project statistics

8. Project statistics: graphic
• User-friendly graphic that precisely
represents the overall project progress
• How to read the graphic
• Project broken down into 11 batches
and 1 final step
• Each batch is further broken into
smaller steps
• Graphic is updated in the beginning of
the month to reflect all steps that were
completed during the previous month
• Each batch has a progress bar showing
how much is completed
• The overall progress bar summarizes
the data from the batches
• Progress bar percentage is accurate to
+/- 0.5%
https://nvdnp.wordpress.com/digitized-newspapers/second-cycle/progress-report/

9. • Complete redesign
• Improved information
architecture
• Improved navigation
Project website
www.nvdnp.wordpress.com
• Improved user
experience
• Rich content
• Updated monthly

10. • New top level category: NEVADA HISTORY
• Provide full text essays to digitized NV newspapers
• Provide quick access to all newspaper title changes
• Any other suggestions?
Planned website additions
NEVADA HISTORY
TITLE
CHANGE
GRAPHIC
TITLE
CHANGE
GRAPHIC
TITLE
CHANGE
GRAPHIC
TITLE
CHANGE
GRAPHIC
TITLE
CHANGE
GRAPHIC

11. • Interactive visual
representation of the NDNP
Master Title List
• Color-coded pins let users
easily distinguish among
• Digitized newspapers
• Currently being digitized titles
• Titles for digitizing in the future
• Details about newspapers
such as title changes and time
span
Google map:
Nevada Historic Newspapers
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1nJ-mm-JNjPX8nPcuPEauGgIBrIs&ll=39.35976982229496%2C-117.10951184999999&z=8

12. Second cycle 2016-2018
Marina Georgieva
NDNP Project Manager
Tel.: 702-895-2310
Email: marina.georgieva@unlv.edu
www.nvdnp.wordpress.com
Thank you!

13. NVDNP – Outreach and Publicity
• Social Media Presence
• Video Tutorials
• Working with the
Community
• Handouts Available
• Questions / Feedback /
Suggestions

14. Current Social Media Presence
• Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nvdnp
• Twitter @nvdnp - https://twitter.com/nvdnp
• Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/nvdnproject/
• Phasing Out in Near Future
• Investigating Instagram

15. NVDNP Social Media - Research
• Social Media Strategy
• Reviewing Engagement and Traffic
• Social Media Platform Metrics
• Post Views and Reach
• Assessing Engagement Through Likes, Comments etc.
• Strategies to Increase Interaction with Users
• Content Calendar
• Hashtags
• Content Marketing
• Using Interactive Tools Embedded in Social Media

16. Tutorials
• Hosted on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/chann
el/UCsP783pmhQLPK0mcjgsnjpA
• General Approach to Video Series
• Video 1: Finding Historic Nevada
Newspapers Online
• Video 2: Browsing Nevada
Newspapers in CA
• Future Videos: Search
Strategies/Tips with a Nevada
Focus

17. Working with the Community
• Genealogy Fair – July, 2016
• UNLV Libraries
• UNLV Libraries Communications
• Humanities Librarian / Liaisons
• Open House
• Possible Future Events
• Exploring Your Family's History -
Genealogy Series (Clark County
Library)
• 2nd Annual Genealogy Fair – June

18. Swag / Handouts Available
• Bookmarks
• Poster
• NDNP Handout
• NEW! Nevada
Handout
• Find NV Newspapers
in Chronicling
America
• Links to NDNP,
Chronicling America
and Other Awardees
of Interest

19. (Almost) The End!
• Target Audiences for Project
• UNLV Community – faculty, students
• K-12 – Partner with UNLV Education Library Staff
• Genealogists Through Public Library System
• Nevada Historical Societies
• Suggestions for Other Groups?

20. Thank You!
Oscar Giurcovich
Project Technician, NVDNP
(702) 895-2046
oscar.giurcovich@unlv.edu