1. What’s
happening
with
born
digital
newspapers?
Frederick
Zarndt

2. Born
digital
newspapers
 Born
digital
newspapers
collected
 Singapore
Na6onal
Library
Board
 Bibliotheque
na6onale
de
France
 Na6onal
Library
of
Finland
 Bri6sh
Library
 Born
digital
newspapers
archived
and
access
provided
 Singapore
Na6onal
Library
Board
in
2010
 California
in
2010
(UC
Riverside)

3. Born
digital
newspapers
 PDF
varia6ons
are
significant
 PDF’s
from
publisher
have
no
metadata
 PDF/A
 1b
for
long
term
visual
preserva6on
 1a
metadata
plus
1b
 METS
wrapper
for
PDF’s
 Image
deriva6ve
of
PDF
(JPEG2000)
 ALTO

5. In-­‐copyright
newspapers
 Straits
Times
from
1845
to
the
present
day
 News
source:
SPH,
AP,
Reuters
 Access
policy
 Issue
 Ar6cle
 Photo
/
illustra6on
 Searchable
from
anywhere
 Accessible
only
from
Library
premises

6. Delivery
and
enforcement
system
architecture

7. Recipe
for
born
digital
newspapers
1 Decision:
page-­‐level,
ar6cle-­‐level,
or
both
2 Agreement
with
publisher
1 Copyright
2 Distribu6on
restric6ons
3 Blackout
period
3 Born
digital
newspaper
collec6on
1 FTP
server
2 CDs,
DVDs,
etc
4 Processing
so^ware
5 Access
so^ware

8. Digital
object
producIon
costs
Cost
(USD)
Print
newspapers
Low
High
Microfilm
produc6on
$0.15
$0.20
Image
produc6on
from
microfilm
$0.05
$0.10
Data
produc6on
$0.40
$0.60
Total
$0.60
$0.90
Born
digital
newspapers
Microfilm
produc6on
$0.10
$0.15
Data
produc6on
$0.20
$0.25
Total
$0.30
$0.40