The document announces the launch of Welsh Newspapers Online, a digital archive of over 130,000 newspaper pages from Wales that will be indexed by the Europeana Newspapers project. By sharing the Welsh newspaper collection internationally, it will provide new contexts for research, help expose Welsh language and history, and allow Wales to contribute to the growing critical mass of newspaper content available through Europeana to benefit education, creative industries, and research across Europe. The Welsh Newspapers collection is well positioned technically and topically to be a valuable addition to the Europeana Newspapers index.

1. Launch of Welsh
Newspapers Online
http://welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk/
Alastair Dunning
The European Library
13th March, Cardiff

2. The European Library
(http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org) acts as
central index point for library’s materials
from throughout Europe

3. Historic Newspaper Digitisation in Europe
Around 130,000,000 pages scanned
Just over 29,000 newspaper titles online
Around 85% are freely available

4. Europeana Newspapers
project is creating an
index of 18m pages that
point to library’s
newspaper webpages
The Welsh Newspapers are in a perfect
position to add to this

5. Why share with Europe?

7. New international contexts and
research questions

8. Exposure of Welsh language

9. Exposure of Welsh ideas / thinking /
history

10. Recognition of LLGC / NLW identity

11. Potential to work with others to
enrich the data

12. Within a European context a critical a
mass of data to help reach education,
creative industries, tourism, research

13. The Welsh Newspapers are in a perfect position to
add to that
Openness of content
Strong technical underpinnings – speedy, secure
delivery of image & text to user
A focussed collection for education and research
A resource that can expand and exploit other
opportunities