Digitisation projects and best practice

Newspaper digitisation projects worldwide

ICON survey on newspaper digitisation projects

Wikipedia:List of online newspaper archives

United States - National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP)

• http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/
• http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/guidelines/
• http://www.loc.gov/standards/

Utah Digital Newspapers Program

• http://digitalnewspapers.org/about/

Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program

• https://www.nla.gov.au/ndp/
• https://www.nla.gov.au/ndp/project_details/

National Library of the Netherlands (KB)

• http://www.kb.nl/hrd/digi/ddd/technisch-en.html
• http://www.kb.nl/hrd/digi/ddd/project-en.html

Best practice and recommendations

Definitions and Abbreviations

Preparing a digitisation project

IMPACT Digitisation Cost Estimator V3 (ersion 3.06, January 2011; SUB Göttingen): http://www.impact-project.eu/taa/strat/pilot-tools/ 

Digitising newspapers from hard copy

Digitising newspapers from microfilm

Advantages and obstacles of digitising from microfilm: IMPACT Case Study - Digitising from Microfilm (Hans van Dormolen, KB Nederland, 2011): impact_case-study_digitising-from-microfilm.pdf 

Digital image output

JPEG 2000 as a Preservation and Access Format for the Wellcome Trust Digital Library: http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/assets/wtx056572.pdf

OCR (Optical Character Recognition)

• IMPACT Briefing Paper OCR (Niall Anderson, British Library, 2010): http://www.impact-project.eu/uploads/media/IMPACT-ocr-bp-pilot-1b.pdf
• IMPACT Best Practice Guide: Optical Character Recognition – Part 1-3 (Niall Anderson, British Library, 2010): http://www.impact-project.eu/uploads/media/IMPACT-ocr-bpg-pilot-s1.pdf ; http://www.impact-project.eu/uploads/media/IMPACT-ocr-bpg-pilot-s2.pdf ; http://www.impact-project.eu/uploads/media/IMPACT-ocr-bpg-pilot-s3.pdf

OLR (Optical Layout Recognition)

Metadata

IMPACT Best Practice Guide: Metadata for Text Digitisation & OCR (Michael Day, UKOLN, University of Bath, 2010): http://www.impact-project.eu/uploads/media/IMPACT-metadata-bpg-pilot-1.pdf  

Search and delivery functions

Prototyping

Enhancement and upgrading options

Long-term preservation and accessibility of digitised newspaper collections

Project management

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Last update: 5 October 2012