1. A quick update on
Newspapers & Europeana
Clemens Neudecker (@cneudecker)
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Europeana Aggregator Forum Spring 2018, Berlin

2. A Little Bit of History
2012 – 2015: Europeana Newspapers
ICT-PSP Project (2012-2015)
31 Dec 2016: The European Library (TEL) closed
2017: DSI-2/3: Migration;
Newspapers Collection Plan
July 2018: Re-Launch of Europeana Newspapers
thematic collection

3. Europeana Newspapers
Thematic Collection

4. Use in Research

5. Use in Research
• Oceanic Exchanges (Digging Into Data, 2017-2019)
• impresso (Swiss National Fund, 2017 – 2020)
• NewsEye (EU H2020, 2018 – 2020)
• CLARIN (EU ERIC)
• Europeana Research, Interviews with Researchers
• At Scientific Conferences
– DAS, ICDAR: Europeana Newspapers Ground Truth
– LREC, ACL, ELRA: Europeana Newspapers NER Corpora

6. Oceanic Exchanges
(Digging Into Data, 2017-2019)

7. impresso
(Swiss National Fund, 2017 – 2020)

8. Use in Research
• Digital Humanities
– DHd AG Newspapers initiated at DHd 2018
– HacktheNews workshop at DHNord 2018
– Roundtable on newspapers at DHBenelux 2018
• At the Berlin State Library:
– University Regensburg
– Technical University Dortmund
– Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences

9. Other Activities
• Rise of Literacy Generic Services Projekt
• IIIF Newspaper Interest Group
– http://iiif.io/community/groups/newspapers/
– https://github.com/IIIF/awesome-iiif#newspapers
• TEI SIG Newspapers & Periodicals
– https://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/
SIG:Newspapers%26Periodicals

10. Creative Reuse

11. Berliner Schlagzeilen
• Created as part of Coding da Vinci Berlin 2017
• Twitterbot that tweets out daily about the
news from 100 years ago
• Source code available:
https://github.com/shoutrlabs/
berliner-schlagzeilen

14. Altpapier App
• Created as part of Coding da Vinci Berlin 2017
• Android (and soon also iOS) app that shows the
user newspaper articles with the possibility to
correct errors
• Available as source code
https://github.com/mariabecker/OldNews
and on the Play Store
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ol
dnews.de.oldnews

16. Visualizing European Newspapers
• Visualization prototype with large touch
interface composed of multiple screens
made by Sven Charleer of KU Leuven

18. State of the Archive
• Photo documentary by photographer
Elias Siebert about the transformation
of the analogue newspaper archive to
a digital collection
• Exhibited at f/stop festival for photography

23. Future Plans

24. The Situation in Germany
2012 – 2015:DFG Pilot Project
„Digitisation of historical newspapers“
Master Plan, Guidelines, etc.
2017: Relaunch of ZDB union catalog of serials
http://zdb-katalog.de/
2017: DFG Proposal (SBB, DDB involved)
„A national portal for digitised historical
newspapers at the Germany Digital Library“
2018: DFG Call for proposals
„Digitisation of historical newspapers“

25. Future Plans
• Draft a Newspaper Aggregation Strategy
for Europeana (many EU and associated
countries „in the pipeline“)
• Harmonise standards and data models and
publish recommendations for best practices
• Foster cooperation with researchers in the
digital humanities and social sciences
• Develop a roadmap for newspaper digitisation
in Europe

27. Let‘s make 2018 the year of historical newspapers!
Thank you for your attention.
Clemens Neudecker (@cneudecker)
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Europeana Aggregator Forum Spring 2018, Berlin