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.

1. Copyright: Olmsted County Historical Society
Europeana Newspapers
…in aller Kürze
Austrian Information Day
16 Oktober 2014, Wien, ÖNB
Hans-Jörg Lieder, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin –
Preußischer Kulturbesitz

2. ZDF: Zahlen, Daten, Fakten
• Europeana Newspapers – EU ICT-PSP Best Practice Network
• Beginn im Februar 2012, Ende im Januar 2015
• 18 Partner, 11 assoziierte Partner, 22 Networking Partner aus 28
Ländern
• Budget: € 5.16M – EC Förderung: € 4.12M
• Projektleitung: Staatsbibliothek zu 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 in der wirklichen Welt
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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Rot = Projekt
Partner
Blau = Assoziierte
Partner
Grün = Networking
Partner

4. Vom Bild zum Text
• 8 Millionen Seiten OCR
• 2 Millionen Seiten OLR / Artikelseparierung
• Named Entity Recognition (NER) in 3 Sprachen
(Niederländisch, Deutsch, Französisch)
• Metadaten für >18 Millionen Seiten in Europeana
• Metadaten für >28 Millionen Seiten in der ZDB
(plus “born digital” Zeitungen)
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. Content
20 Sprachen
ca. 950 Titel
Country Partner Titel
Startdate
(overall)
Enddate
(overall)
France BnF 80 1814 1944
Germany SBB 6 1872 1940
SUB-HH 16 1721 1945
Netherlands KB 203 1618 1900
Italy LFT 15 1813 1949
Estonia NLE 43 1852 1944
Finland NLF 11 1900 1910
Latvia NLL 117 1868 1955
Poland NLP 118 1914 1939
Turkey NLT 22 1818 1928
Austria ONB 275 1686 1945
Serbia UB 45 1830 1944
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

6. Volltext-Suche
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. Kalendernavigation
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. Kartenbasiertes Stöbern
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. Navigation in Titelliste
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. Darstellung 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 10

11. Metadaten
• Europeana Newspapers METS/ALTO Profile (ENMAP)
• Beiträge zur Entwicklung von ALTO v2.x, v3.0
• Strukturdatenerfassung mit Unterstützung von 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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12. Entwicklung unterstützender Software
• Tools für die standardkonforme Imageerzeugung/ Konversion
• Tools für die Ermittlung von zu erwartenden Qualitätsniveaus
• Tools für die Analyse von OCR-Ergebnissen
• 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. Medien, Neuigkeiten, 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. Wo wir stehen
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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15. Vielen Dank!
hans-joerg.lieder@sbb.spk-berlin.de
http://www.europeana-newspapers.eu
http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/newspapers
http://www.europeana.eu/