the florida digital newspaper library ufdc.ufl/newspapers

The Florida Digital Newspaper Library

http://ufdc.ufl.edu/newspapers

Agenda: Workshop Part II

1. Current status and collection goals2. Contents3. Functionality 4. Resources for assisting patrons &

sample searches

http://ufdc.ufl.edu/newspapers

Contributing Partners

FAQ

• WHERE CAN I FIND ADDITIONAL YEARS OF A NEWSPAPER?

• HOW DO I SAVE AN IMAGE?

• CAN I PRINT AN IMAGE FOR PERSONAL USE?

The Florida Digital Newspaper Library

http://ufdc.ufl.edu/newspapers

Example Searches and Browses

• BROWSING ALL ITEMS • MAP BROWSE• TEXT SEARCH (FULL TEXT SEARCH)• NEWSPAPER SEARCH (MAIN SEARCH,

METADATA/RECORD)

End of Part II

• Break for 15 minutes…

Digitizing Newspapers:

A brief look at the National Digital Newspaper Project (NDNP)

Our Workflow

NDNP Technical Specs

• Title Selection• 2N film • Collation• Digitization• Inspection • Ingest

Titles Selected in FL

Title Selected in PR

Collation Spreadsheet

iArchives Digitization Workflow

FilmScanning

Customer Deliverables

WorkflowManager

DB

Page/ReelMetadata

Page/ReelMetadata

SharedStorage(NAS)

Split,De-Skew,

Crop

Split,De-Skew,

Crop

PostProcess

PostProcess

OCRFramework

OCRFramework

ImageMetadata

ImageMetadata

ImageProcessing

ImageProcessing

QCQC QC QCQCQC

Automatic process (image processing, OCR, etc) Manual process (image + article metadata) Quality Control

Metadata

• Requirements for NDNP– METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission

Standard)• XML schema

– Descriptive metadata– Structural metadata– Administrative metadata

METS

• Sections of METS file<metsHdr/> METS header<dmdSec/> Descriptive metadata <amdSec/> Administrative metadata <fileSec/> File section<structMap/> Structural map

• Types of METS– Issue– Reel

Purpose of coding

Geographical metadata

Title metadata

Date metadata

Batches

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