1. Europeana Newspapers
Europeana Transcribathon Campus Berlin 2017
Clemens Neudecker (@cneudecker)
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

2. Background
• EU-Project „A Gateway to European
Newspapers Online“ (2012 – 2015)
• 13 Libraries, 2 Universities,
2 European Organisations, 1 SME
• www.europeana-newspapers.eu

3. Goals
• Aggregation of 18 million pages of digitised
historical newspapers for Europeana
• OCR-Processing of 10 million pages
digitised historical newspapers
• Development of Recommendation and
Best Practices for newspaper digitisation

4. Europeana Newspapers Collection
• Volume:
– 21 million pages(!) available via Europeana;
12 million pages fully searchable
– 3,3 million issues of roundabout 1,000 newspaper
titles
• Timeframe: 1618 – 2016
• 40 languages , 4 alphabets

5. Results
• Open Data, Open Access, Open Source
• Data:
research.europeana.eu/itemtype/newspapers
• Tools:
github.com/EuropeanaNewspapers

6. http://europeananewspapers.github.io/

7. Portal
• Currently hosted by The European Library (TEL)
• www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/newspapers

8. Full-text search

9. Title search

10. Calender search

11. Viewer

12. Europeana Newspapers & 1914-1918

13. Research
• Oceanic Exchanges (Digging Into Data)

14. Research
• Data Mining Europeana Newspapers (BnF)

15. Research
• Visualising European Newspapers

16. Education
• iTunes U Course World War I

17. Outlook
• 2018: Re-launch of Europeana Newspapers
as a „thematic collection“
• Virtual exhibitions, storys, asf.
• Alternative browse entry points
• Collaboration with researchers

19. Follow us for updates
• Twitter
twitter.com/eurnews
• Facebook:
facebook.com/EuropeanaNewspapers
• Slideshare:
slideshare.net/Europeana_Newspapers
• Flickr:
flickr.com/photos/enewspapers/

20. Thank you for your attention!
Europeana Transcribathon Campus Berlin 2017
Clemens Neudecker (@cneudecker)
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin