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Spread the News The National Digital Newspaper Program
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About the NDNP
• Partnership
• National Endowment for the Humanities
• The Library of Congress
• State Projects
• Long-term effort to develop a freely accessible digital resource of historically significant newspapers from all the states and U.S. territories.
• Continues the work of the United States Newspaper Program.
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About the NDNP cont.
• NEH awards support state projects to select and digitize
historically significant newspapers published in their
state
• Library of Congress also digitizing newspapers from its own
collections
• Technical guidelines and support for state projects
provided by the Library of Congress
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Chronicling America
• Digitized newspapers hosted by Library of Congress on
Chronicling America website • As of January 2011, over 3 million pages available
• States may also host digitized newspapers locally
• Accompanied by national
newspaper directory of
bibliographic and holdings
information • Complied as part of the United
States Newspaper Program (USNP)
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Program overview
• One organization from each state receives award to
collaborate with relevant state partners.
• Two year award (renewable).
• Newspapers selected for digitization must have been
published in state between 1836 and 1922.
• Material may be in English, French, Italian or Spanish
(including bilingual).
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State award conditions
• Digitize approximately 100,000 pages (primarily from microfilm) in accordance with Library of Congress technical guidelines.
• Assemble advisory board of scholars.
• Develop selection criteria.
• Update bibliographic records for national directory.
• Write historical essay about each digitized newspaper.
• Deposit copy of microfilm used for scanning with the Library of Congress.
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Unsupported activities
• Digitization of serials that are not newspapers.
• Digitization of newspapers from outside of timeframe.
• Costs related to local reuse or enhancement of digitized
newspapers.
• Costs associated with the development of a local access
interface.
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State projects
• 25 states have received awards so far.
• Vermont first state in New England to receive award.
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A Massachusetts Digital Newspaper Project?
• Plans are currently underway to apply for NEH funding
in January 2012.
• Through participation in the NDNP we hope to develop
the Massachusetts Digital Newspaper Project as a
statewide collaboration to provide digital access to
historic Massachusetts newspapers.
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Ways to get involved
• Contribute your microfilm, knowledge, or support
• Come to informational meeting today at 4:30pm in the
Ipswitch Room.
• Email me at [email protected]
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Thank you!
• Chrissy Watkins Rissmeyer
Boston Public Library
Digital Projects Metadata Coordinator
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VERMONT DIGITAL NEWSPAPER PROJECT (VTDNP) AND THE
NATIONAL DIGITAL NEWSPAPER PROGRAM (NDNP)
Chris Kirby
Ilsley Public Library Adult Services and
Technology Librarian
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Abbreviation for my talk:VUN
Vermont Digital Newspaper Project—VTDNP
U.S. Newspaper Project—USNP
National Digital Newspaper Project—NDNP
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Vermont joins the NDNP
Researching the NDNP—Summer, 2009
Applying to the program—Fall, 2009
Award announcement—June, 2010
Project kickoff—August, 2010
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• Newspaper Publishing in Vermont
Early publishing centers: Bennington, Brattleboro, Burlington, and Rutland
19th century papers: Brandon’s Vermont Telegraph
Papers with extended runs: Burlington Free Press, Rutland Herald
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Vermont & the United States Newspaper Program (USNP)
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Past efforts to enhance access to Vermont Newspapers:
Burlington Free Press/ Rutland Herald Index
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Newspaper Digitization (VTDNP) and enhanced access to Vermont Newspapers
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Digitization in Vermont UVM’s Center for Digital Initiatives
Vermont Folklife Center Online Digital Archive
Middlebury College Digital Collections
Readex—Early American Newspaper Series
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Background for VTDNP
Inventory of Vermont Papers
Microfilm of varying quality
Selection of digitized newspapers
Cultural Organizations with digitization expertise
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National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP)—a collaborative venture
Library of Congress
National Endowment for the Humanities
Awardees (state level institutions)
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• VTDNP: A collaborative Project
Partners:
University of Vermont Department of Libraries Ilsley Public Library Vermont Historical Society
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VTDNP and other NDNP awardees
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NDNP Awardees: A diversity of approaches
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Current Phase of Project: Implementation
Select newspapers to be digitized
Describe newspapers to be digitized
Digitize newspapers and duplicate microfilm
Validate and submit digitized newspapers
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Okay, so we have NDNP grant money. Now just how do we do this?
A National Digital Newspaper Program state project process from film in a drawer to
searchable online content.
Tom McMurdo
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Microfilm is the basis of any NDNP project.
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Where are your newspaper master negatives?
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Most master negatives of newspapers from 1836-1922 are “pre-standards.”
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Microfilm evaluation:
Acetate or Polyester? Vinegar syndrome
Positives and negatives Scanning quality
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Scanning: In House or Vendor?
2 very different approaches: control versus overhead
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My Experience: Outsourcing Scanning
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Scanning RFP
Several excellent companies working on NDNP state projects.
Criteria for evaluation
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Selecting a vendor
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Workflows
Title selection & Essays
Masters, positives & negatives
Metadata Creation
Scanning, OCR and XML files
Quality Assurance Check
Film and Files to LC
Searchable pages online
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Title selection and essays
Selections must be justified
Stakeholders
Degree of formality
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Microfilm
Positive vs. Negative film
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Metadata creation: frame by frame film inventory
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Scanning, OCR and XML files
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Quality Assurance Check
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Film and Files to Library of Congress
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Online searchable files
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Ongoing production (100,000 Pages)
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Success!