The Europeana Newspapers Project held a workshop in Amsterdam in September 2013. This presentation from Yves Maurer shows the work of the National Library of Luxembourg.
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www.eluxemburgensia.lu
Archive of historical newspapers
11 titles
60 000 issues
400 000 pages
Data scanning Timeline
2003 – 2007 : Scan images only
2005 first trial with METS/ALTO
Since 2007 : METS/ALTO
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Drivers for newspaper UI
Existing functionality should be kept
Pick by date
View images, zoom, next page, next issue etc.
Internal Driver: METS/ALTO
Full text search in whole collection
Search in obituaries, image captions etc.
Articles should be an entity
Site survey
ANDP
Paperspast
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Search - challenges
What do you search in?
www.eluxemburgensia.lu (Digitool)
is based on issues
www.a-z.lu (Primo)
is based on articles
Bad OCR
Three different search engines
Poor metadata, rich fulltext -> snippets
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Viewer - challenges
Need to handle:
Table of contents
Search
Article highlighting
Show OCR text
Browse thumbnails
Navigation in the page (zoom, drag, gestures, article reading mode, ...)
Deep links to articles and pages
Technical constraints
Speed
No flash
Browser compatibility
Integration with Digitool
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User feedback
Well received
Especially from expat population and researchers
Wishlist – general patrons
User OCR correction
Embeddable viewer for blogs
User collections with annotations
Android app
Wishlist – researchers
Access to full text data as linked data set
Printing of individual articles
Simple “microfilm-like” viewer for efficient viewing of entire collection
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Open source viewer
URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bnlviewer/
Used by http://www.periodika.lv/
BSD License