Prof. Geraldine Sheridan, Dr. Michael Griffin & Yvonne Diggins Eighteenth Century Research Group in conjunction with the Irish Literature Seminar Series, University of Limerick 11th April 2012

1. University of Limerick
2012
Digitisation of the Magazine of Magazines,
a Mid-Eighteenth Century
Limerick Publication
Prof. Geraldine Sheridan, Dr. Michael
Griffin & Yvonne Diggins
Eighteenth Century Research Group in
conjunction with the Irish Literature
Seminar Series,
University of Limerick
11th April 2012

2. Digitisation
Project 1
 ULResearch Seed Fund and
PRTLI 4 (Programme for Research in
Third Level Institutions: Cycle 4, HEA)
 Magazineimages text searchable
(over 150 pdfs) (1751-1761)
 2012 approx. 80 (1761-1769)
 Available as a public good

3. Software Used: ABBYY
Finereader Version 10
 OpticalCharacter Recognition
Software
 Trained to read 18th Century
characters
 Keeps the original visual
representation of the Magazine of
Magazines
 Adds the OCR text behind the
original images

4. Example of a Trained User Pattern

5. Demonstration of the Text
Searchable Document
 View demo here:
http://www3.ul.ie/ecrg/digitised-versions

6. Sample Searchable Text: Original

7. Sample Searchable Text
in Text Editor

8. Digitisation
Project 2
 Collaborative project
 ECRG (UL & Mary Immaculate College),
TCD, British Library, National Library of
Ireland
 150 ebooks with annotations (1751-1761)
 2012 approx. 80 ebooks (1761-1769)
 Available as a public good

9. Software Used
 Photoshop CS5 (saving of images
for web)
 Audacity (recording annotations)
 iMark- interactive Media
Annotation Resource Kit

10. Demonstration of the eBooks
 View demo here:
http://www3.ul.ie/ecrg/ndlr-ebook-project

11. Storing of
Outputs
 ECRG Website
 UL Institutional Repository
 NDLR
 National Library of Ireland
 www.ul.ie/ecrg

12. User Stats
 Project page on ECRG website:
 Over 24,230 views
 Collection on NDLR:
 255 views
 NDLR Top Country Views
 Ireland (174)
 United States of America (32)
 Russian Federation (11)
 United Kingdom (10)
 Ukraine (5)
 Netherlands (2)