The document summarizes the Europeana Newspapers Project, which digitized 18 million newspaper pages from across Europe between the 17th-20th centuries. The project aims to improve search capabilities and access to these historical newspapers by applying optical character recognition (OCR) and extracting metadata on people, places and organizations mentioned in articles. A network of 12 content providers, technical partners and others collaborated on enrichment, aggregation and dissemination of the newspaper content so it can be explored through Europeana and other online interfaces.

1. Europeana Newspapers
Project: Overzicht
Den Haag, 28 oktober 2014
Lotte Wilms, Koninklijke Bibliotheek
@lottewilms

2. This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the
Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community
http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp
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Europeana Newspapers Project
18 miljoen
Europese
kranten-pagina’s

3. Verbeteren zoeken en vinden
This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the
Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community
http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp
•OCR
• Zoeken per artikel
• Named Entities
• Plaatsen
• Personen
• Organisaties

4. Best Practice project
• Verrijking
• Tools
• Metadata
This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the
Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community
http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp

5. This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the
Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community
http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp
Wie?
12 content
leveranciers
2 netwerk partners
4 technische
partners
1 aggregator

6. 11 Associated Partners
This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the
Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community
http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp

7. Netwerk Partners
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Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community
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8. Opbouw van het project
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Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community
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Coördinatie (SBB)
Verrijking
(KB)
Evaluatie
(USAL)
Aggregatie
(TEL)
Metadata
(UIBK)
Verspreiding
(LIBER)

9. Verrijking van gedigitaliseerde kranten
• Analyse en selectie dataset
• Eisenpakket krantendigitalisering
•Werkstroom voor verrijking
• Aanbevelingen voor best practice
This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the
Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community
http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp
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10. Verrijkingen
• OCR (ABBYY Finereader)
• 8 miljoen pagina’s: UIBK
• Zoeken per artikel
• 2 miljoen pagina’s: CCS
• Named Entities: KB
• Plaatsen
• Personen
• Organisaties
This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the
Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community
http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp

11. Europeana Newspapers data set
3 alfabetten
12 Europese bibliotheken
18 miljoen historische
krantenpagina’s
21 talen
17e – 20e eeuw
This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the
Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community
http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp

12. Selectiecriteria
• Selectie door bibliotheken
• Zoveel mogelijk vrij toegankelijk
• Metadata met CC-0 licentie voor Europeana
• Relevant voor de gebruikers
• Goede kwaliteit digitalisering
This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the
Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community
http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp
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13. Europeana Newsapers data set
This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the
Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community
http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp
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14. Aantallen
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Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community
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Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community
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Talen
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16. Lettertype voor de top 10 talen
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Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community
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17. Tijdlijn
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Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community
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18. Werkstroom voor verrijkingen
This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the
Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community
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19. Software ondersteuning voor bibliotheken
This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the
Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community
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1. BCT
Binarisation
and Colour
Reduction Tool

20. Software ondersteuning voor bibliotheken
This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the
Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community
http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp
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1. BCT
Binarisation
and Colour
Reduction Tool
2. FRT
File Rename
Tool

21. Software ondersteuning voor bibliotheken
This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the
Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community
http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp
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1. BCT
Binarisation
and Colour
Reduction Tool
2. FRT
File Rename
Tool
3. FAT
File Analyzer
Tool

22. Status verrijking
Totaal aantal pagina’s beoogd:
10.355.614 pagina’s
Momenteel verrijkt:
11.226.228 pagina’s
This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the
Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community
http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp
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23. Named Entity Recognition
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Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community
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Talen
• Nederlands
• Frans
• Duits/Oostenrijks
Software Partners:
• NER attestation tool
http://lab.kbresearch.nl/enhance/NER
• Nederlandse trainingsdata & classifier
http://lab.kbresearch.nl/static/html/eunews.html
• NER software (open source)
https://github.com/KBNLresearch/europeananp-ner
• Nieuw output formaat: ALTO 3.0

24. Evaluatie en kwaliteitscontrole
• Infrastructuur voor evaluatie en kwaliteitscontrole
• Tools
• Ground truth
• Documentatie: http://www.europeana-newspapers.eu/wp-content/
uploads/2014/08/D3.3-Evaluation-Tools-Final-
Versions.pdf
This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the
Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community
http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp
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25. Aggregatie en presentatie
• Overzicht gedigitaliseerde kranten in Europa
• Aggregeren van content
• Ontwikkelen van een zoekinterface
• Toegang via TEL browser:
http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/newspapers
This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the
Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community
http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp
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26. Metadata best practice voor kranten
• Overzicht modellen
• Een model voor kranten
• Tool voor het verrijken van model
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Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community
http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp
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27. Structify
This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the
Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community
http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp
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28. Verspreiding
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Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community
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• Delen van doelen,
resultaten en bevindingen
• Uitbreiden van het netwerk
Nationaal Archief: http://www.flickr.com/photos/29998366@N02/3280639091

29. Europeana Newspapers website
• Blog
• Interviews met
onderzoekers
• Updates over de
zoekinterface
• Uitlichten van nieuwe
content
• Promotiemateriaal
• Publicaties en presentaties
• Evenementen
This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the
Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community
http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp
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30. In gesprek met de onderzoekers
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Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community
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31. Publiek
Policy
makers
European
Library
community
Publishers
Teachers
Technology
experts
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Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community
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International
library
community
Research
community
EC
Museums projects
archives
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Informatiedagen, workshops, conferenties en online media:

32. Workshop Verrijking en kwaliteit
• 13 – 14 Juni, University Library Belgrade
• Blog: http://www.europeana-newspapers.eu/focus-on-newspaper-
refinement-quality-assessment-in-belgrade/
This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the
Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community
http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp
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33. “Newspapers in Europe & the Digital Agenda for
Europe”
Doel: Produceren van een roadmap voor het verbeteren van
toegang tot gedigitaliseerde kranten voor beleidsmakers
British Library,
29-30 September 2014
This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the
Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community
http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp

34. Closing weeks
Promotie van de browser aan eindgebruikers
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Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community
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1-23
DECEMBER
2014
• Drie weken met evenementen door
heel Europa
• Live demos
• Persberichten
• Social media
• Tentoonstellingen
• Etc.

35. Animatie
This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the
Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community
http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp
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36. Voor meer informatie:
http://www.europeana-new spapers.eu/