Overview of current digital newspaper efforts and issues in aggregated collections.

1. Newspapers @DPLAFest 2015
Karen Estlund
kestlund@uoregon.edu
April 18, 2015

2. Newspapers & Popularity
“I’m doing a happy dance.
I was able to access the
website today, and am
having fun reading these
newspapers.”

3. Some Current Efforts
• National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) from NEH and Library of
Congress Chronicling America – http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov
• IIIF and newspapers –
– Interoperability format for image and textual layers
– Viewer (e.g. Mirador) - http://showcase.iiif.io/viewer/mirador2/chroniclingamerica.html
• International Coalition On Newspapers (ICON) – http://icon.crl.edu/
– Directory w/ issue level information about microfilm, digital and paper copies
• Dodging the Memory Hole – http://educopia.org/events/dmh
• Beyond NDNP – https://sites.google.com/site/digitalnewspaperspractices/
– Metadata and Technical Specification
– Copyright Best Practices
• More…

4. What does the User want?

5. Title Level
The Indianapolis Globe from Chronicling America’s Newspaper Directory
- http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87056604/

6. Curated Titles / Collections
The Portal to Texas History - http://texashistory.unt.edu/

7. Title & Issue Level
Clean Politics from ICON - http://icon.crl.edu/

8. Hoosier State Chronicles
https://newspapers.library.in.gov/
Oregon Daily Emerald Archives
http://oregondigital.org/sets/daily-emerald/
Issue Level

9. Page Level
Chronicling America – http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov

10. Article Level
Utah Digital Newspapers
http://digitalnewspapers.org/
California Digital Newspaper Collection
http://cdnc.ucr.edu/

11. Website

12. Searching Newspapers
WE CLAIM To be the Athletic
Outfitters of Salem and why
should we not do so? We outfit all
basketball, football and baseball
teams in the. surrounding country.
There must be a reason. It is
simply this: We have the complete
stock of Sporting Goods in Salem.
ARE YOU WITH US IN 1914 for
Foot ball Supplies, Bicycles, Bicycle
Repair ing, Guns, Ammunition,
Fishing Tackle?
The Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current, November 01, 1914, Image 3
http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/2003238611/1914-11-01/ed-1/seq-3/

13. Full Text Search

14. Highlighted Search in Context

15. Article Search Facets

16. Searching Newspapers w/ Other CHO

17. IIIF & Newspapers
http://showcase.iiif.io/viewer/mirador2/chroniclingamerica.html

18. Discussion
The Plymouth tribune (Plymouth, IN), October 29, 1908, Image 5
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87056244/1908-10-29/ed-1/seq-5/
1. What does your newspaper
content look like? What level is
the description and format? Do
they have full text?
2. What functionality would you
like to see with newspapers in
DPLA?
3. What additional issues need to
be solved?