A success story - Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program

Holley, Rose A success story - Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program. Online Currents, 2009, vol. 23, n. 6, pp. 283-295. [Journal article (Paginated)]

[thumbnail of j21_v023_OLC_pt06_Holley.pdf]
Preview
 PDF
j21_v023_OLC_pt06_Holley.pdf
Download (3MB) | Preview

English abstract

This article gives an overview of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program (ANDP) (http://www.nla.gov.au/ndp/) and the resulting free online public service – Australian Newspapers (http://ndpbeta.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home). The service was released to users by the National Library of Australia in August 2008 and has now been in operation for over a year. As at the end of October 2009, the Program has achieved free online public access to over 720,000 newspaper pages containing over 6.8 million articles. The public have helped to enhance the data by correcting over 6 million lines of text and adding 166,000 tags and 4200 comments. The Program is collaborative with every State and Territory Library in Australia being involved. The service supports the key objectives of the Australian Newspaper Plan (ANPlan) (http://www.nla.gov.au/anplan/) to enable communities to explore their rich newspaper heritage. By mid 2011 the Program will have digitised and made available 4 million Australian newspaper pages dating from 1803-1954.

Item type: Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords: Australian Newspapers, historic newspapers, full-text resources, social engagement, user interaction, web 2.0 technologies, usability testing, digitisation, service delivery, tagging, collaborative projects, infrastructure.
Subjects: J. Technical services in libraries, archives, museum. > JG. Digitization.
Depositing user: Rose Holley
Date deposited: 25 Jan 2010
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:16
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/14176

References

Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program (ANDP) Project website : http://www.nla.gov.au/ndp/

Australian Newspapers service : http://ndpbeta.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home

Trumble Diaries blog entry: http://www.nla.gov.au/ndp/news_and_events/media_releases/documents/TheTumbrelDiaries_22May2009AngusTrumble.pdf

Holley, Rose (2009). Researchers have a Field Day with Digitised Historic Australian Newspapers, Gateways, Number 101, October 2009

http://www.nla.gov.au/pub/gateways/issues/101/story03.html

The Argus Index: http://www.nla.gov.au/argus/

Australian Newspaper Plan (ANPlan) website : http://www.nla.gov.au/anplan/

Australian Co-operative Digitisation Program (ACDP) website: http://www.nla.gov.au/acdp/

Library Forge website with open source code for Australian Newspapers: http://code.nla.gov.au

Holley, Rose (2009). How Good Can It Get? Analysing and Improving OCR Accuracy in Large Scale Historic Newspaper Digitisation Programs. D-Lib Magazine, March/April 2009, vol. 15 no 3/4. ISSN: 1082-9873 doi:10.1045/march2009-holley

URL: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march09/holley/03holley.html

Holley, R. (2009) Many Hands Make Light Work: Public Collaborative OCR Text Correction in Australian Historic Newspapers, National Library of Australia, ISBN 9780642276940

http://www.nla.gov.au/ndp/project_details/documents/ANDP_ManyHands.pdf

Google News Archive: http://news.google.com/archivesearch

Trove Singe Discovery Service: http://sbdsproto.nla.gov.au/


Downloads

Downloads per month over past year

Actions (login required)

View Item View Item
Contact us
Send email Sponsors
Sponsor: AIMS Sponsor: D&P Sponsor: UniNa CAB Get connected
Facebook Facebook Twitter Twitter Linkedin LinkedIn RSS RSS