This document summarizes the Vermont Digital Newspaper Project (VTNDP) which works to digitize historic newspapers from Vermont by first microfilming papers and then digitizing the microfilm. The project receives funding from the National Digital Newspaper Project (NDNP) and works with in-state partners to microfilm and catalog newspaper titles, then sends duplicate microfilm reels and 500-word title essays to the Library of Congress. The project aims to digitize 10,000 pages per month by either contracting a vendor or doing the work in-house according to NDNP technical specifications and timelines. The document provides contact information for the VTNDP librarian.

1. Chronicling America:
paper → microfilm → digital
Managing United States historic newspapers
from the perspective of state projects
ERENST ANIP
VERMONT DIGITAL NEWSPAPER PROJECT (VTNDP)
UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT, USA
at AIFIS Knowledge Management Public Talk
November 2014

2. Paper: original form

3. Microfilm: preservation
+ State Partners
= USNP/ United States Newspaper Project

4. Digital: access

5. NDNP
National Digital Newspaper Project

6. Workflow

7. IN-STATE PARTNERSHIP

8. EQUIPMENT

9. DUPLICAT
E
MICROFIL
M
REELS
CATALOG
UPDATE
CATALOG
UPDATE
TITLE ESSAY @
500 WORDS
TITLE ESSAY @
500 WORDS
DUPLICAT
E
MICROFIL
M
REELS
100,000
PAGES
DIGITIZE
100,000
PAGES
DIGITIZE
D
D

10. REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP)
The search for a digitization vendor
OR
produce in-house
•Goal: 10,000 pages per months
•NDNP tech spec & timeline
•Some of the vendors ->

11. Metadata

12. Knowledge: managed

16. Knowledg
e: adding
value
http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/topics/

17. QUESTIONS?
Contact us:
library.uvm.edu/vtnp
Erenst Anip, Project Librarian
erenst.anip@uvm.edu
+1-802-656-0819