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Europeana Newspapers - the Gateway to European Newspapers Online
IFLA 2013 Satellite Meeting on Newspaper & Genloc Sections, Science Centre Singapore, 14-15 August 2013, Singapore.
This document summarizes a workshop on the Europeana Newspapers Project. The project aims to digitize 18 million newspaper pages from 18 partners in 12 European countries. It will refine optical character recognition (OCR) and other metadata for 10 million pages and article segmentation for 2 million pages. The goals are to spread best practices for newspaper digitization, aggregate content for Europeana and The European Library, and encourage more libraries to contribute newspaper content to Europeana. Future work includes processing more content, addressing copyright issues for 20th century papers, and improving accessibility through full text search.
The challenges of making Europe's newspapers available onlineLIBER Europe
tPresentation from WLIC2013. Reports on a survey conducted by the Europeana Newspaper project of digitised newspaper collections in LIBER (European research) libraries.
The document summarizes the Europeana Newspapers Workshop. The workshop aimed to aggregate 18 million digitized historic newspaper pages from 12 European libraries to improve search capabilities. It discussed aggregating and presenting newspaper content across cultures while sharing best practices to improve availability and accessibility. The project involves 12 content providers, 2 networking partners, 4 technology providers, and 1 aggregator working to refine search through optical character recognition, layout recognition, and entity recognition.
The Europeana Newspapers project aims to aggregate 18 million digitized historic newspaper pages from 12 European libraries to improve search capabilities. It seeks to drastically improve search and retrieval by refining optical character recognition, optical layout recognition, and named entity recognition. The project also evaluates OCR quality, builds a content browser, standardizes metadata, and shares best practices through workshops to make newspapers more accessible to a wide audience.
The document discusses the development of a metadata model for digitized newspaper articles. It aims to gather existing metadata models, design a comprehensive new model called ENMAP based on standards like METS and MODS, and manage feedback on the format. The model will include a data dictionary defining structural elements and text types found in newspapers. Elements may include titles, headlines, advertisements, illustrations, and page numbers. Text types could be breaking news, reviews, obituaries, advertisements, weather forecasts, and more. The objectives are to provide clear definitions and examples to help libraries apply the metadata and tools can use it for search and crowd-based services. Feedback is sought on defining elements and how they interact with readers.
This document outlines an agenda for a workshop on the Europeana Newspapers Project. The workshop will include introductions and icebreakers like "Meet & Greet" and "Democracy Wall" where attendees can share one unique thing about themselves or something they discovered. There will also be presentations on topics like dissemination and quality assessment from organizations like the National Library of Scotland and US National Archive. Upcoming related events are listed and attendees are encouraged to share information through social media tags and accounts.
This document summarizes a workshop on refining digitized newspaper collections. It discusses analyzing newspaper collections from project partners to identify subsets suitable for refinement. The objectives are to coordinate processing 10 million digitized newspaper pages using refinement technologies and provide recommendations on best practices. Challenges include balancing processing quality and speed given the large volumes of diverse content. The refinement workflow involves binarization, file renaming, analysis, optical character recognition to extract text, optical layout recognition to separate articles and columns, and named entity recognition to identify people, locations and organizations.
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tPresentation from WLIC2013. Reports on a survey conducted by the Europeana Newspaper project of digitised newspaper collections in LIBER (European research) libraries.
The document summarizes the Europeana Newspapers Workshop. The workshop aimed to aggregate 18 million digitized historic newspaper pages from 12 European libraries to improve search capabilities. It discussed aggregating and presenting newspaper content across cultures while sharing best practices to improve availability and accessibility. The project involves 12 content providers, 2 networking partners, 4 technology providers, and 1 aggregator working to refine search through optical character recognition, layout recognition, and entity recognition.
The Europeana Newspapers project aims to aggregate 18 million digitized historic newspaper pages from 12 European libraries to improve search capabilities. It seeks to drastically improve search and retrieval by refining optical character recognition, optical layout recognition, and named entity recognition. The project also evaluates OCR quality, builds a content browser, standardizes metadata, and shares best practices through workshops to make newspapers more accessible to a wide audience.
The document discusses the development of a metadata model for digitized newspaper articles. It aims to gather existing metadata models, design a comprehensive new model called ENMAP based on standards like METS and MODS, and manage feedback on the format. The model will include a data dictionary defining structural elements and text types found in newspapers. Elements may include titles, headlines, advertisements, illustrations, and page numbers. Text types could be breaking news, reviews, obituaries, advertisements, weather forecasts, and more. The objectives are to provide clear definitions and examples to help libraries apply the metadata and tools can use it for search and crowd-based services. Feedback is sought on defining elements and how they interact with readers.
The Europeana Newspapers Workshop presentation discusses a project that aims to make 18 million digitized historical European newspaper pages available through one search portal. The project involves 12 content providers, 2 networking partners, 4 technology providers, and 1 aggregator working to improve the accessibility of these newspapers by fully digitizing and making searchable 10 million pages. The presentation outlines the challenges of preserving fragile newspaper content and the project's efforts to apply optical character recognition to pages, align metadata, and share best practices through its website and workshops.
This document provides an overview of the Europeana Newspapers refinement project. It discusses the objectives to refine 10 million digitized newspaper pages through optical character recognition (OCR), optical layout recognition (OLR), and named entity recognition (NER). It describes the refinement workflow and tools used, including the Binarisation and Colour Reduction Tool (BCT), File Rename Tool (FRT), and File Analyzer Tool (FAT). OCR processing will be done on 8 million pages by the University of Innsbruck using ABBYY software. OLR on 2 million pages will be done by Content Conversion Specialists. NER on over 2 million pages will be done by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek using the Stanford
This document discusses the Europeana Newspapers project, which aims to digitize newspaper collections across Europe and provide access through Europeana. It notes that the project has digitized over 15 million newspaper pages so far, providing a valuable window into European cultural history. The project also spreads best practices for digitization and works to enhance the content by making it full-text searchable and linking entities. Going forward, the project aims to expand newspaper collections both in terms of content and participating countries to further exploit the richness of Europe's digitized newspaper heritage.
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.
The document summarizes the Europeana Newspapers Project, which aims to make over 18 million digitized newspaper pages available online by 2015. An 18-partner consortium is working to refine optical character recognition on the pages, extract articles, and aggregate metadata. The project will provide 10 million newspaper pages with full text. It highlights the Turkish National Library's contribution of over 400,000 pages of Ottoman-script newspapers from 1831-1922, which pose challenges for character recognition software. The project also promotes networking between German and Turkish libraries.
This document discusses metadata considerations for the Europeana Newspapers project. It begins with an introduction to the speaker and his background in digital library projects. It then covers general concepts of metadata, how metadata is important for digitized newspapers, and the Europeana Newspaper METS ALTO Profile (ENMAP) that is being developed to provide robust metadata for the project. The goal of ENMAP is to create a standardized format for metadata that can be used for preservation, access, and delivery of newspaper data to Europeana.
The document discusses the Europeana Newspapers project, which aims to digitize over 18 million newspaper pages from various European newspapers ranging from the 17th to 20th centuries. The project involves 12 content providers, 2 networking partners, 4 technology providers and 1 aggregator working together to improve access to historical newspapers. Key aspects of the project include cultural cooperation, skills sharing, improved search capabilities through technologies like optical character recognition. The project highlights how digitization has improved access to historical newspapers and their coverage of events like the Titanic disaster across different European countries.
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This document discusses a project to refine digital historical newspapers from Europe using named entity recognition. It aims to detect and link names of persons, places and organizations within 10 million newspaper pages from 12 European libraries. The project uses machine learning tools to identify named entities in Dutch, German and French texts, despite challenges from optical character recognition errors and historical spelling variations. Initial results show precision of 94% for persons and 95% for locations when analyzing Dutch texts, though recall was lower. The project plans to release named entity training data and software to link entities to online knowledge bases.
This document summarizes a workshop on structural metadata for the Europeana Newspapers project. It discusses how 10 million newspaper pages from various European libraries need to be delivered to Europeana in a standardized format. Participants created a METS/ALTO profile called ENMAP to unify the delivery format. More than 3 million pages have already been processed using this profile. The final ENMAP specification will be released in 2014 and include structural metadata elements like titles, headlines, and genres to improve search and facilitate crowd-sourced work. Feedback is requested on defining recommended practices for structural metadata in digitized newspapers.
Refinement
Europeana Newspapers Workshop: A Gateway to European Newspapers Online. Research Information Infrastructures and the Future Role of Libraries.
LIBER 2013 Annual Conference, Bavarian State Library, 26-29 June 2013, Munich, Germany.
The document discusses a workshop on refining digitized newspaper collections. It describes objectives like analyzing available newspaper collections, defining quality standards, and processing 10 million pages using refinement technologies. Challenges include balancing processing speed and quality given the large volume of diverse content. The refinement workflow involves binarization, file renaming, analysis, optical character recognition to extract full text, optical layout recognition to separate articles, and named entity recognition to tag people, places and organizations. The goal is to enhance access to digitized newspapers through Europeana.
The document summarizes the Europeana Newspapers project, which digitized over 18 million newspaper pages from 20 languages and 950 titles from 18 partner institutions. The project developed tools to extract text from images using OCR and named entity recognition in three languages. Digitized pages were made available through Europeana and other online interfaces with search and browsing functions.
This document outlines an aggregation and indexing plan for digitized newspaper content from several European national libraries. The plan involves harvesting metadata and full text from partner libraries over multiple quarters in 2013-2014. Content will be indexed in a newspaper content browser and delivered to Europeana and other databases. Metadata and images will be ingested from libraries and made available with different viewing options. Quality control and customer relationship management systems will track the process.
The Europeana Newspapers project is digitizing newspapers from the 17th-20th centuries across 22 European languages. It has provided full text for over 2 million newspaper pages and metadata for over 18 million additional pages. Usability testing was conducted with researchers and improvements were made to search, browsing, and display functionality based on feedback. Researchers value the project for enabling new large-scale, interdisciplinary, and computational analyses of digitized newspaper archives.
Performance Evaluation and Quality Assessment by Stefan Pletschacher, University of Salford. Presentation given at the Europeana Newspapers Information Day, held at the British Library on 9 June 2014.
An overview of the Europeana Newspapers Project by Rossitza Atanassova, British Library. Presentation given at the Europeana Newspapers Information Day, held at the British Library on 9 June 2014.
The Presentation of Hans-Jörg Lieder, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, at the BnF Information Day for Europeana Newspapers (November 2014).
The document discusses the Europeana Newspapers Project, which aims to aggregate 18 million digitized historic newspaper pages from 12 European libraries. It will improve search capabilities by creating full text for 8 million pages and undertaking article segmentation and named entity extraction for 2 million pages. It will also develop a cross-searchable newspapers browser. The project addresses challenges in working with fragile historic newspapers and creating an interface that provides value to users while respecting the wishes of contributing libraries. It discusses how content and functionality will vary depending on what each library provides. The goal is to create a resource that is useful for historians, researchers, and other users.
The document describes a project called OPATCH that aims to create an advanced online search infrastructure for a historical newspaper archive. OPATCH will use computational linguistic methods like parsing, tagging, and named entity recognition to correct errors from optical character recognition (OCR) processing on the newspapers, which are from 1910-1920 and in difficult-to-read Fraktur font. The project will start with error-prone OCR text that cannot be manually corrected at scale. It will develop and test a method to generate and select candidates for correcting OCR errors using edit distances and ngram frequencies.
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The Europeana Newspapers Workshop presentation discusses a project that aims to make 18 million digitized historical European newspaper pages available through one search portal. The project involves 12 content providers, 2 networking partners, 4 technology providers, and 1 aggregator working to improve the accessibility of these newspapers by fully digitizing and making searchable 10 million pages. The presentation outlines the challenges of preserving fragile newspaper content and the project's efforts to apply optical character recognition to pages, align metadata, and share best practices through its website and workshops.
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This document discusses the Europeana Newspapers project, which aims to digitize newspaper collections across Europe and provide access through Europeana. It notes that the project has digitized over 15 million newspaper pages so far, providing a valuable window into European cultural history. The project also spreads best practices for digitization and works to enhance the content by making it full-text searchable and linking entities. Going forward, the project aims to expand newspaper collections both in terms of content and participating countries to further exploit the richness of Europe's digitized newspaper heritage.
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.
The document summarizes the Europeana Newspapers Project, which aims to make over 18 million digitized newspaper pages available online by 2015. An 18-partner consortium is working to refine optical character recognition on the pages, extract articles, and aggregate metadata. The project will provide 10 million newspaper pages with full text. It highlights the Turkish National Library's contribution of over 400,000 pages of Ottoman-script newspapers from 1831-1922, which pose challenges for character recognition software. The project also promotes networking between German and Turkish libraries.
This document discusses metadata considerations for the Europeana Newspapers project. It begins with an introduction to the speaker and his background in digital library projects. It then covers general concepts of metadata, how metadata is important for digitized newspapers, and the Europeana Newspaper METS ALTO Profile (ENMAP) that is being developed to provide robust metadata for the project. The goal of ENMAP is to create a standardized format for metadata that can be used for preservation, access, and delivery of newspaper data to Europeana.
The document discusses the Europeana Newspapers project, which aims to digitize over 18 million newspaper pages from various European newspapers ranging from the 17th to 20th centuries. The project involves 12 content providers, 2 networking partners, 4 technology providers and 1 aggregator working together to improve access to historical newspapers. Key aspects of the project include cultural cooperation, skills sharing, improved search capabilities through technologies like optical character recognition. The project highlights how digitization has improved access to historical newspapers and their coverage of events like the Titanic disaster across different European countries.
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This document discusses a project to refine digital historical newspapers from Europe using named entity recognition. It aims to detect and link names of persons, places and organizations within 10 million newspaper pages from 12 European libraries. The project uses machine learning tools to identify named entities in Dutch, German and French texts, despite challenges from optical character recognition errors and historical spelling variations. Initial results show precision of 94% for persons and 95% for locations when analyzing Dutch texts, though recall was lower. The project plans to release named entity training data and software to link entities to online knowledge bases.
This document summarizes a workshop on structural metadata for the Europeana Newspapers project. It discusses how 10 million newspaper pages from various European libraries need to be delivered to Europeana in a standardized format. Participants created a METS/ALTO profile called ENMAP to unify the delivery format. More than 3 million pages have already been processed using this profile. The final ENMAP specification will be released in 2014 and include structural metadata elements like titles, headlines, and genres to improve search and facilitate crowd-sourced work. Feedback is requested on defining recommended practices for structural metadata in digitized newspapers.
Refinement
Europeana Newspapers Workshop: A Gateway to European Newspapers Online. Research Information Infrastructures and the Future Role of Libraries.
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The document discusses a workshop on refining digitized newspaper collections. It describes objectives like analyzing available newspaper collections, defining quality standards, and processing 10 million pages using refinement technologies. Challenges include balancing processing speed and quality given the large volume of diverse content. The refinement workflow involves binarization, file renaming, analysis, optical character recognition to extract full text, optical layout recognition to separate articles, and named entity recognition to tag people, places and organizations. The goal is to enhance access to digitized newspapers through Europeana.
The document summarizes the Europeana Newspapers project, which digitized over 18 million newspaper pages from 20 languages and 950 titles from 18 partner institutions. The project developed tools to extract text from images using OCR and named entity recognition in three languages. Digitized pages were made available through Europeana and other online interfaces with search and browsing functions.
This document outlines an aggregation and indexing plan for digitized newspaper content from several European national libraries. The plan involves harvesting metadata and full text from partner libraries over multiple quarters in 2013-2014. Content will be indexed in a newspaper content browser and delivered to Europeana and other databases. Metadata and images will be ingested from libraries and made available with different viewing options. Quality control and customer relationship management systems will track the process.
The Europeana Newspapers project is digitizing newspapers from the 17th-20th centuries across 22 European languages. It has provided full text for over 2 million newspaper pages and metadata for over 18 million additional pages. Usability testing was conducted with researchers and improvements were made to search, browsing, and display functionality based on feedback. Researchers value the project for enabling new large-scale, interdisciplinary, and computational analyses of digitized newspaper archives.
Performance Evaluation and Quality Assessment by Stefan Pletschacher, University of Salford. Presentation given at the Europeana Newspapers Information Day, held at the British Library on 9 June 2014.
An overview of the Europeana Newspapers Project by Rossitza Atanassova, British Library. Presentation given at the Europeana Newspapers Information Day, held at the British Library on 9 June 2014.
The Presentation of Hans-Jörg Lieder, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, at the BnF Information Day for Europeana Newspapers (November 2014).
The document discusses the Europeana Newspapers Project, which aims to aggregate 18 million digitized historic newspaper pages from 12 European libraries. It will improve search capabilities by creating full text for 8 million pages and undertaking article segmentation and named entity extraction for 2 million pages. It will also develop a cross-searchable newspapers browser. The project addresses challenges in working with fragile historic newspapers and creating an interface that provides value to users while respecting the wishes of contributing libraries. It discusses how content and functionality will vary depending on what each library provides. The goal is to create a resource that is useful for historians, researchers, and other users.
The document describes a project called OPATCH that aims to create an advanced online search infrastructure for a historical newspaper archive. OPATCH will use computational linguistic methods like parsing, tagging, and named entity recognition to correct errors from optical character recognition (OCR) processing on the newspapers, which are from 1910-1920 and in difficult-to-read Fraktur font. The project will start with error-prone OCR text that cannot be manually corrected at scale. It will develop and test a method to generate and select candidates for correcting OCR errors using edit distances and ngram frequencies.
This document discusses optical character recognition (OCR) of historical newspapers. It describes the digitization process, which includes image capturing, text and structure recognition, natural language processing, and content representation. OCR accuracy can be improved through layout analysis, structural metadata extraction, and identifying different content units like articles, advertisements, and entertainment sections. The goal is to make the content and knowledge within digitized newspapers accessible beyond the scanned text.
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1) Supporting high-tech startups to grow internationally through networking and financing. This has a budget of €10M.
2) Increasing innovation through commercializing research and supporting innovators, with a budget of €2M.
Proposals should address themes like connecting startup hubs, facilitating financing, and providing support services. The goal is to help startups scale up and researchers bring innovations to market.
Europeana and EUscreen. Joint AMIA/IASA Conference. Philadelphia- November 6,...Johan Oomen
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The document discusses the Future Internet Public-Private Partnership (FI-PPP) Programme, which brings together public and private actors to advance Future Internet technologies and systems. The Programme aims to support industry competitiveness, growth of European internet industries, and user-driven applications. It describes the FI-PPP as industry-led, European-focused, and user-driven. It also outlines opportunities for smart cities to engage with the FI-PPP through open calls, projects, and infrastructure repositories.
An Experimental Workflow Development Platform for Historical Document Digitis...cneudecker
An Experimental Workflow Development Platform for Historical Document Digitisation and Analysis
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1. Copyright: Olmsted County Historical Society
Europeana Newspapers
…in a nutshell
Newspapers in Europe and the Digital
Agenda for Europe - Final Workshop
29 September 2014, London, British Library
Clemens Neudecker, State Library Berlin
@cneudecker
2. Facts & Figures
• Europeana Newspapers – EU ICT-PSP Best Practice Network
• Started in February 2012 and will run until January 2015
• 18 partners, 11 associated partners, 22 networking partners
(28 countries involved)
• Total budget: €5.16M – EC contribution: €4.12M
• Project coordination: State Library Berlin / Preußischer Kulturbesitz
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 2
3. Europeana Newspapers is all over Europe…and beyond
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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Red = Project
Partners
Blue = Associated
Partners
Green = Networking
Partners
4. Refinement - we‘re scaling it up!
• 8 million pages refined with Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
• 2 million pages refined with Optical Layout Recognition (OLR)
• Technical resources for Named Entity Recognition (NER) in
three languages (Dutch, German, French)
• Metadata for >18 million pages ingested to Europeana
In comparison: currently provides access to
8,056,532 pages
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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5. Quality & Performance
Bag of Words OCR Evaluation
Per Language
100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
Layout Analysis Performance
Per evaluation profile
Bag of Words OCR Evaluation
Per Font
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
Bag of Words OCR Evaluation
5
82.4%
85.3%
80.9%
75.9%
67.5%
83.4% 84.1%
68.1%
93.1%
57.6%
87.0%
68.3%
76.1%
82.6%
54.1%
32.7%
100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
Success Rate
Language Setting
71.9%
74.3%
80%
75%
70%
65%
60%
55%
50%
Index based Count based
Success Rate
Bag of Words OCR Evaluation
Index based rate vs. count based rate
79.1%
62.2%
55.9%
58.8%
94.7%
0%
Keyword
search
Phrase search Access via
content
structure
Print/ebook
on demand
Content
based image
retrieval
Success Rate (harmonic, area based)
Evaluation Profile
67.3%
81.4%
64.0%
100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
Gothic Normal Mixed
Success Rate
Font
FineReader vs. Tesseract
75.3%
53.78%
100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
Success Rate (count based)
OCR Engine
FineReader Tesseract
6. Access via TEL & Europeana
• Full text search in TEL Historic Newspapers Browser:
http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/newspapers
(recently updated following usability testing)
• Metadata search in Europeana:
http://www.europeana.eu/portal
(now with embedded object presentation via TEL)
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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7. Full-text search
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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8. Browse by date
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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9. Explore on a map
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. Title list
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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11. Embedded TEL Viewer in Europeana!
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
12. Metadata Best Practices
• Europeana Newspapers METS/ALTO Profile (ENMAP)
• Contributions to ALTO standard v2.x, v3.0
• Structural metadata with tool support - 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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13. Media, News, Events
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. Lots of opportunities for research & reuse
• Metadata for >18M pages licensed CC0
• Images & full-text for 10M pages licensed public domain
• See also:
http://www.europeana-newspapers.eu/
category/
interviews-with-researchers/
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
yet another way to reuse
newspapers…
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15. Thank you for your attention!
@eurnews
http://www.europeana-newspapers.eu
http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/newspapers
http://www.europeana.eu/