The challenges of making Europe's newspapers available online
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The document discusses the Europeana Newspapers project, which aims to digitize and make European newspaper content from 20 countries accessible online, aggregating over 18 million newspapers. It highlights challenges such as low digitization rates, copyright issues, and variability in content quality, while proposing solutions like standardized metadata and improved funding for digitization. Additionally, it mentions that 85% of libraries provide free access to their collections, although many face significant hurdles in digitizing 20th-century content.
The challenges of making Europe's newspapers available online
- 1. The challenge of making digitised European newspaper content available online Susan Reilly, LIBER Twitter: @skreilly IFLA Newspapers, Singapore, Aug 2013
- 2. This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp 2 Overview Europeana Newspapers: making European newspapers available online Assessing the state of our digitised newspapers collections Where do we go from here
- 3. Europeana Newspapers: making European newspapers available online •Content from 20 countries! (13+7 new countries) •Aggregation of more than 18 million newspapers into Europeana •Make newspapers more accessible by applying refinement methods for OCR, OLR (article segmentation), and named entity (NER) and class recognition •Increase visibility via dedicated content browser •Ensure sustainability by spreading best practice
- 4. This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp Asessing the state of Europe digitised newspaper collections •Who’s digitising newspapers? •What percentage of newspaper collections are digitised? •How many pages? •Quality of digitisation? •How are images made available?
- 5. Findings:% of newspaper collections digitised •Survey of LIBER member (400 European research libraries) •47 responses • Does this indicate number of institutions digitising newspaper? •Less than 10% of respondents’ collections digitised • Compared to average of 20% for % of total collection digitised (Enumerate) •130 million pages and 24,000 titles • Not all libraries could provide exact figures because of cursory nature of catalogue
- 6. This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp Findings: 20th century content an issue •Conservative approach to copyright terms •½ of respondents reported a cut-off date beyond which they do not make content available • Early as 1863 • Latest last 70 years •Special arrangements with publishers (23%) •Collective rights agreements too complex
- 7. This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp Findings: How accessible are the collections? •85% provide free access • Sometimes only at national level •Some subscription fees/under licence
- 8. This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp Findings: How rich is the content? •36% employ no OCR •50% of those who did not confident enough in results to expose OCR’d text via search interface •36% zoning and segmentation •Only 6% named entity recognition •Huge variance in metadata • Dublin Core only • Own standards
- 9. This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp Challenges •Newspaper digitisation is behind •Copyright issues more complex •Lack of quality evaluation technologies for OCR •Lack of standardised metadata suited to newspapers
- 10. This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp Solutions •Standardised metadata mapped to EDM •Quality evaluation technologies for OCR •Clarity over rights issues •Dialogue with publishers •More funding for digitisation • Increase visibility
- 11. Thank you for your attention! http://www.libereurope.eu http://www.europeana-newspapers.eu/