rootstech 2015 finding and using digitized historical newspapers workshop [201502 salt lake city]
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Please open your computer browser and go to these URLs, each in a separate tab or window
http://news.google.com/newspapers
http://goo.gl/KN3LOQ
http://cdnc.ucr.edu
http://www.elephind.com
http://newspapers.library.in.gov
Finding and Using Digitized Historical Newspapers for Your Research [LAB 1884]
What we will do … A few words of introduction
Not all newspapers are digitized[Brian] How newspapers are digitized [Frederick] Free vs. Subscription: focusing on free[Brian] Google won’t always get you what you want [Frederick]
Search basics and more [Frederick]
Creating an account at a free, public collection [Brian]
Using free, public digital newspaper collections Basic search (with facets) using Elephind [Brian] Advanced search using California Digital Newspaper Collection
[Frederick] Collecting what you find [Brian] Interacting with digital newspapers [Frederick]
Miscellaneous [Frederick]
Question and answer
Please take the digital newspapers experience survey!
[http://goo.gl/forms/gmLFHFKPks]
Not All Newspapers are Digitized
How Newspapers are Digitized
1st, take a picture of the newspaper …
How Newspapers are Digitized
2nd, analyzethe image ….
Deaths. lln»rieff, Esq. of <c .. Qn. Sunday, the till. greatly Drandrellt, of Orms4\irJi.- ~ ; ;✓ ' • * On ijfr r inn ljjjil F iij '11 f Havodivyd, Carnarvonshire, S ; **" *- ' « ' March Oxford, F. Tfovmeud, Uerald. » • V . •On Tncsdav last, Mr. Charles. IWilinson, this 8 ; had vf thesis#,, a week ago, which tcrminate<i'iu his death. . / ' ■ O'i Sunday, dJst nit. at. AsbtCnvHall, mar Lancaster, Mr.,Geo. Worn ick, many years house'steward hit late Once The Hamilton and Brandon. He locked himself h»oWn'r«wte<: soon. twelve o'clock" that dny, and fii»-d a loaded pistol "through Ins bead, 1 which instantaneously killed him. Coronet's Verdict, shot himself in a temporary fit of Friday week,
How Newspapers are Digitized
3rd, optical character recognition …
How Newspapers are Digitized
4th, format the image and data appropriately …
Free vs Subscription
National Collections with Free Access
European http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/
Australian http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper
New Zealand http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/
American http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
Singaporean http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/
Free vs Subscription
State Collections with Free Access
California http://cdnc.ucr.edu
Illinois http://idnc.library.illinois.edu
Indiana https://newspapers.library.in.gov
Oregon http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/
Texas http://texashistory.unt.edu/
Utah http://digitalnewspapers.org/
Virginia http://virginiachronicle.com/
Washington http://www.sos.wa.gov/legacy/newspapers.aspx
Wyoming http://newspapers.wyo.gov/
Free vs Subscription
Subscription Collections
Institutional Subscriptions
Proquest Historical Newspapers http://www.proquest.com/products-services/pq-hist-news.html
Readex (Newsbank) Historical Newspapers http://www.readex.com/?content=343
Free vs Subscription
Individual Subscriptions
Newspapers.com (Ancestry) http://www.newspapers.com/
NewspaperArchive http://newspaperarchive.com/
British Newspaper Archive http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/
Free vs Subscription
won’t always get you want you want
Frederick Zarndt, Apr 2012 IFLA International Newspapers Conference, Bibliotheque nationale de France, Paris. http://bit.ly/bnfnewspapers
traffic rankings and search results show that content in
library digital newspaper collections dwells in Internet
obscurity
how do we know this?
Gallipoli CampaignApril 1915 to January 1916
also known asBattle of GallipoliDardanelles CampaignBattle of Çanakkale
search phrase
(battle OR campaign)AND
(Gallipoli OR Dardenelles OR Çanakkale)
date range 1-Jan-1915 to 31-Dec-1916
(modified as needed for local search engines)
using this search phrase we first search the collection
with the library’s own search engine...
collection collection URL ~size pages number of results
Trove http://trove.nla.gov.au 9,880,000 16,321 articles
CDNC http://cdnc.ucr.edu 540,000 3 articles
Historical Newspaper Library http://www.nationallibrary.fi/ 2,000,000 333 results
Gallica http://gallica.bnf.fr 2,200,000 222 results
Historische Kranten http://kranten.kb.nl 5,000,000 34,399 articles
Papers Past http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz 2,960,000 7,084 articles
NBDigital Aviser http://www.nb.no/aviser/ 12,000,000 539 articles
Newspaper SG http://newspapers.nl.sg 2,400,000 294 articles
British Newspaper Archive http://britishnewspaperarchive.com 6,912,000 1857 articles
Chronicling America http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov 6,025,000 104,503 hits
Results from Jun 2013Results from Apr 2012
search results
now we search with the same phrase using
Google...
http://www.google.com/
http://www.google.co.uk/
http://www.google.com.au/
http://www.google.co.nz/
http://www.google.com.sg/
(battle OR campaign)AND(Gallipoli OR Dardenelles OR Çanakkale)
Google advanced search no longer allows specific date ranges
search phrase
#18
#41
#96
IN 1st 100 GOOGLE SEARCH RESULTS, NOT A SINGLE RESULT FROM LIBRARY
HISTORICAL DIGITAL NEWSPAPER COLLECTIONS!
Search basics
Search basics
Search basics [http://news.google.com/newspapers]
Search for an exact phrase using “ or ‘, for example, “rootstech 2015” or ‘a penny saved is a penny earned’
Search for alternate words or phrases using OR, for example, (bill OR william) AND gates
Search for webpages which have some words but not others using – (no space between – and the word), for example, rootstech -2015 or ‘gary herbert’ utah -governor -gov
Search for a phrase with missing words, for example, ‘a penny * is a penny *’
Search for synonyms using ~, for example, ~grandmother moses or ~william clinton
Form complex searches by grouping words and operators, for example, (marilyn monroe) OR (norma jeanne mortenson) which is the same as (marilyn AND monroe) OR (norma AND jeanne AND mortenson)
Search basics
Indiana’s Hoosier State Chronicles[http://newspapers.library.in.gov]
Creating an Account
Creating an Account
Guidelines: Capitalization matters; keep it simple and use all lowercase No spaces Use password you will remember; does not have to be super secure
Creating an Account
Guidelines: Confirmation email sent to account you registered; make sure to check that account Email should show up in minutes, no more than an hour Check Junk or Spam folder if email is not in Inbox Click on link in email to confirm registration; if you don’t confirm, you won’t be able to
log in Contact site administrator with any problems
Basic Search (in Elephind)
Faceted Browsing Place of Publication Date Source Collection Newspaper Title Language
Other Types of Facets “Article” Type Tags Word Count
Basic Search (in Elephind)
Facet: State of Publication1. Clicked on facet “United States”. 2. Then clicked on “More…” within “State of Publication”. 3. List of indexed articles by state collection.
Basic Search (in Elephind)
Facet: Arizona1. Showing all 1,885 articles from Arizona2. Can further refine by clicking on another facet3. Can refine by multiple facets
Collecting What You Find
Indiana’s Hoosier State Chronicles[http://newspapers.library.in.gov]
Collecting What You Find
Collecting What You Find
Collecting What You Find
Private Lists
Deaths. lln»rieff, Esq. of <c .. Qn. Sunday, the till. greatly Drandrellt, of Orms4\irJi.- ~ ; ;✓ ' • * On ijfr r inn ljjjil F iij '11 f Havodivyd, Carnarvonshire, S ; **" *- ' « ' March Oxford, F. Tfovmeud, Uerald. » • V . •On Tncsdav last, Mr. Charles. IWilinson, this 8 ; had vf thesis#,, a week ago, which tcrminate<i'iu his death. . / ' ■ O'i Sunday, dJst nit. at. AsbtCnvHall, mar Lancaster, Mr.,Geo. Worn ick, many years house'steward hit late Once The Hamilton and Brandon. He locked himself h»oWn'r«wte<: soon. twelve o'clock" that dny, and fii»-d a loaded pistol "through Ins bead, 1 which instantaneously killed him. Coronet's Verdict, shot himself in a temporary fit of Friday week,
Raw OCR text Article image
Important Wikipedia webpage!
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_online_newspaper_archives
Miscellaneous info and Q&A
More about search
http://websearch.about.com/od/searchingtheweb
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/internet/basics/search-engine.htm
https://support.google.com/websearch
https://duck.co/help/results/syntax
https://help.yahoo.com/kb/search
http://www.solrtutorial.com/solr-query-syntax.html
Miscellaneous info and Q&A
Miscellaneous digital newspapers info
Elephind https://www.elephind.com/
Center for Research Libraries http://icon.crl.edu/digitization.php
Google News http://news.google.com/newspapers/
Stars and Stripes http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sgphtml/sashtml/sashome.html
Miscellaneous info and Q&A
Please rate this session usingthe RootsTech mobile app.
And take the workshopsatisfaction survey!
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Miscellaneous info and Q&A
Questions?Slides are available at
http://www.slideshare.net/cowboyMontana
Brian Geiger
California Digital Newspaper Collection
University of California Riverside
bgeiger@ucr.edu
Frederick Zarndt
Secretary, IFLA News Media
International Federation of Libraries and Associations (IFLA)
frederick@frederickzarndt.com
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