The Europeana Newspapers Project held a workshop in Amsterdam in September 2013. This presentation from Zoran Krstulović shows the work of the National Library of Slovenia.

1. Historical newspapers in the context
of Digital Library of Slovenia
Zoran Krstulovid
Europeana Newspaper Workshop
Amsterdam, September 16th, 2013

2. Historical Newspapers’ Digitization
Current state of digitization:
• most of the historical newspapers have been
digitized;
• among them all Slovenian newspapers and
journals important for history and culture;
• all German language newspapers published on
the Slovenian territory;
• more than 600.000 objects.

3. Challenges
• placement of newspapers in the context of a
whole digital library;
• articles vs. issues;
• full text search through all text materials:
– limitation of the large number of results,
– filters,
– provide to user the results of full text search as
immediate answer;
• inflected language;
• old alphabets (Metelko alphabet, etc.).

4. Historical newspapers’ accessibility
inside the digital library

8. Articles versus issues
issue
article

9. Users don’t prefer only the articles without
the content of a particular issue.

10. Full text search
marked full text search results

11. Declination, old words, old alphabets
the sun
sonce
also:
sonca, sonce, soncu, s
ončni, soncem, sonco
m, soncema, sonci, so
ncih, …
Older forms:
solnce, sonze, solnze
also:
solnca, solncem, solnci
h, solncu, sonza, sonzu
, sunzam, sunze, ſolnza
, ſolnze, ſolnzi, ſolnzu, ſ
onza, ſonzam, ſonze, ſo
nzi, ſonzu, ſónza, ſónze
…

12. Thank you for your attention!
zoran.krstulovic@nuk.uni-lj.si