Coronado public library digital newspapers workshop local partnerships [oct 2016]
Using digitized historical newspapers for genealogical research Brian Geiger, California Digital Newspaper Collection Frederick Zarndt, IFLA Governing Board 1. Introductory remarks: Who we are; focus on freely available collections and especially those that allow researchers to create accounts; numerous sites they can pay to access but we won’t spend much time on them 2. Only small percentage of surviving newspapers have been digitized 3. How newspapers are digitized. Focusing especially on OCR, if it’s not OCR’ed well it’s not discoverable 4. How Coronado newspapers were digitized. CDNC’s work with the public library, Coronado Public Library’s work with the publisher, the process of scanning the film and processing the images, etc. 5. Free vs. Pay. 2 kinds of digitized newspaper archives: 1) publicly funded and available for free, 2) commercial sites you pay to access. Dozens or even hundreds of public sites, from small institutional to national. 6. Google won’t always get you what you want 7. Basic search using Elephind: What elephind is. Search “Abraham Lincoln” and explain what they see. Described “facets” 8. CDNC advanced search 9. Collecting What You Find: Right-click features in the CDNC 10. Collecting What You Find: CDNC user accounts 11. Interacting with Content: CDNC 12. Interacting with Content: Tagging and commenting in CDNC
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Coronado public library digital newspapers workshop local partnerships [oct 2016]
- 1. CDNC and Local Partnerships Brian Geiger, Director IFLA 2016 News Media
- 4. Partnerships
- 5. 2005-11, 15-17: National Digital Newspaper Program § Project of the Library of Congress and National Endowment for the Humanities § Participating states send content to LC § CDNC produced 300,000 pages, available at CDNC and ChroniclingAmerica § Currently digitizing 100,000 pages of foreign-language & Gold-Rush-Era titles § Page-level in ChronAm, Article-level in CDNC Partnerships
- 6. § ≈ 1,000,000 pages § ≈ 3,000,000 embargoed pages § 1846-present § All content freely available § Embargoed content searchable but not viewable § Growing, contemporary newspaper PDF archive Partnerships
- 7. 2007-present: LSTA/CSL § Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grants § LSTA administered by the California State Librarian § 2007-2014 digitized roughly 50,000 pages/year § Produced over 350,000 pages before 2014 Partnerships
- 9. 2008-present: Local Institutions § Produced over 400,000 pages § Partnering institutions include § Sausalito Public Library § Coronado Public Library § Santa Monica Community College § Palm Springs Public Library § Tehama Public Library § Occidental College § Healdsburg Museum & Historical Society § San Bernardino County Historical Archives § Port of Los Angeles § Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation § Madera Public Library § Woodside High School § Los Medanos Community College Partnerships
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- 14. Ancestry.com/newspapers.com Overview § Ancestry digitizes film at their cost § Adhere to CDNC digitization standards § Provide copies of all data to CDNC § Available immediately at newspapers.com for a fee § After 3-year embargo available for free to everyone at CDNC § By end 2015 embargoed data searchable but not viewable in CDNC § Interested primarily in long runs, late 19th to early 21st century § To date have digitized San Bernardino Sun, Santa Cruz Sentinel, & Oakland Tribune Local Institution § Clears copyright by researching or working with copyright holder § Gets free access to titles at newspapers.com during embargo period Partnerships
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- 16. Local Institutions Outreach Efforts have been numerous, opportunistic, evolving Examples: • Webinars: https://infopeople.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=449 • Institutional visits • Local Libraries Directors meeting • California Library Association Annual Meeting • Referrals: • California State Library • Other local institutions • Newspapers.com • CDNC Visibility • Google searches
- 18. Local Institutions Standards What to scan: 1. Master negative film: best quality, low price 2. Local positive film: often poor quality, low price 3. Newsprint: great quality, expensive Library of Congress/NDNP Specification: • Tiff images • METS/ALTO XML • Article- or page-level data
- 26. Local Institutions Hard Work: Low-Cost Alternatives Mendocino Beacon: • Digireel = $15/reel + annual hosting fee • 109 reels x $15/reel = $1,635 + annual fee
- 27. Local Institutions Hard Work: Cost The Pitch Standards Rational: • Data useable across platforms and into the future • Preservation-quality TIFF images • Newspapers available to everyone, not limited by IP address • Best-quality OCR • Receive copies of all data • Charged our costs and receive copies of invoices • No annual hosting fee Overcoming Sticker Shock: • Check whether their titles are part of 5-Year Plan • Consider Ancestry.com option • Digitize in manageable chunks, rather than all at once
- 30. Local Institutions: Examples Tustin News Projected Costs 44,750 estimated pages of newsprint • Scanning @ $0.50/page = $22,375 • Processing page-level @ $0.21/page = $9,398 • Total = $31,772 • Conclusion: Too Expensive Option: Newspapers.com • Substantially less expensive per page newsprint costs • Follow NDNP page-level standards • Insured shipping • Access through newspapers.com during 3-year embargo period • Data delivered to CDNC immediately