How will The European Library aggregate the millions of digitised and refined historical newspaper pages being collected by Europeana Newspapers? What will the newspaper content browser look like? At September’s Aggregation and Presentation Workshop we’ll answer these questions. The workshop will be part of The European Library’s conference: Promoting innovation in Europe. Where? Amsterdam, the Netherlands. … Read more
One of the main goals of the Europeana Newspapers Project is to create a ‘content browser’ that will allow anyone to easily flip through the pages of the digitised newspapers that are being compiled by the project. The work to create this browser is being carried out by The European Library, one of the 18 … Read more
How does the Europeana Newspapers project select digitised newspapers for refinement? The answer to this question will be revealed at our upcoming workshop in Belgrade, Serbia. Digitisation experts, librarians, metadata specialists and technology providers will come together at the workshop to hear how the Europeana Newspapers Project is working to refine more than 10 million digitised … Read more
At LIBER 2013 the Europeana Newspapers Project coordinator Hans-Jörg Lieder will jointly present a paper with Katalin Radics of the University of California that touches upon the refinement methods in use in the Europeana Newspapers Project. In “On the two sides of the pond” Lieder will talk about a cooperation project that centres around the … Read more
The Europeana Newspapers Project was recently presented to over 500 information professionals in Turkey at the influential ANKOS conference in Antalya. Erdal Naneci (pictured), IT director of the National Library of Turkey gave the presentation. The National Library of Turkey is one 18 official partners in the Europeana Newspapers project, and is providing some 400,000 pages of … Read more
Are you working for a: Europeana Newspapers Project Partner Europeana Newspapers Associated Partner Europeana Newspapers Networking Partner Library Archive University Newspaper Museum Refinement expert company App developing company Policy maker Interested in: State of the art refinement methods that will drastically improve the search and retrieve possibilities in digitised historical newspaper content. The evaluation of the … Read more
The LIBER 2013 conference program is out! http://www.liber2013.de/index.php?id=55 Europeana Newspapers project will be at LIBER 2013 conference with a workshop. This workshop will involve participants in the process of how the Europeana Newspapers Project will improve the current extent of newspaper digitization in European libraries. The project partners will present the refinement … Read more
The Europeana Newspapers project has completed its first year successfully. The consortium of 18 European partner institutions covers a broad range of data – European newspapers from the 17th to 20th Century in 20 different languages. The selection of newspapers was made by the participating libraries taking into account the quality of the digitised material, … Read more
Erdal Naneci, IT director of The National Library of Turkey, will give a presentation on the Europeana Newspapers Project in the plenary session at ANKOS, the most important Turkish Information Professional event of the year. The ANKOS conference will take place in Istanbul on 25th-27th of April. http://ankoslink.org.tr/who-should-attend.php The presentation will be on the Europeana Newspapers Project Slideshare after the … Read more
The National Library of Turkey will host the first Europeana Newspapers Project information day on the 3rd of May 2013 in Ankara. At this project event on national level project partners and Turkish invited speakers will join forces to show the latest achievements in the Europeana Newspapers Project and developments in digitisation and refinement for … Read more
