The Europeana Transcribathon Campus 2017 aims to bring people together, who are passionate about transcription, data enrichment and linking of various historical sources, institutional as well user generated content for learning, knowledge sharing and entertainment.

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