ANNO – AustriaN Newspapers Online

A digitisation initiativeof the Austrian National Library

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Why to digitise Newspapers?

• Accessibility• Integrated collections• Protection of originals• Additional uses

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What to digitise?

List of priorities :– a poor state of preservation, as

yet no microfilm– used very often, a microfilm is old

and of poor quality– financiers, cooperating partners

can be found

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How to digitise?

An external service provider

• Planetary scanner• Document scanner

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Demands of quality

• TIFF• 300x300dpi• black/white• Index- and File-structure

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Longtime-Archiving

• Originals are restored and preserved

• Microfilms– Digitisation and microfilming– Hybrid procedure and COM films

• Scan files

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Co-operation

• Austrian Parliamentary Library• Innsbruck University Library• Wiener Zeitung

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How does ANNO work?

• It is possible to enter via– the name of the newspaper– the date

• The future: searching through texts

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Challenges

• Quality of print of old newspapers

• Paper quality• Old Gothic script (Fraktur)• Copyright

ANNO – AustriaN Newspapers Online

A digitisation initiativeof the Austrian National Library

http://anno.onb.ac.at