legal research using digitised historic australian newspapers august 2010, by rose holley
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Rose Holley gives an overview of the Australian Newspapers service which is now integrated into the Trove discovery service. The digitisation workflow, user engagement and searching are coveredTRANSCRIPT
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On overview of the Australian Newspapers service August 2010.
Presenter: Rose Holley, Manager - Trove and Australian Newspapers, National Library of Australia
Australian Law Librarians Association Event 28 August 2010:Legal research using digitised historic Australian Newspapers
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http://www.nla.gov.au/ndp
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National Program and Content
• Focus on major titles from each state and territory 2007-2010
• Coverage: published between 1803 – 1954(out of copyright)
• Scope – 20 million articles complete, 40 million by 2011
• ‘Regional’ titles being contributed by libraries 2011 onwards
West Australian
Northern Territory Times
Courier Mail
Advertiser
Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Gazette
Argus
Mercury
Canberra Times
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• Increase access to
historic Australian newspapers
• Key Features– Online Access– Freely available– Full Text searchable
The Argus, 6 February 1945
Aims
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1803 to 1954
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Popular titles
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Includes Sydney Morning Herald$1 million donation
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Groundbreaking
• Biggest project the Library has undertaken for 10 years
• No other country has attempted on this scale
• Had to develop our own software and systems
• Now made this freely available to others• Have let the public help to improve and
correct the digitised text on a mass scale
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The process behind the scenes…
Microfilm reels
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Microfilm scanned into digital images
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Students at the Library
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Page sequence
Metadata creation
Missing
page
targets
Checking Pages
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Tapes with digital images sent to India
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Article zoning and categorising,Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
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Modern Offices - India
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Digitisation Managers Hyderabad
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Chennai newspaper facility
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150 data operators
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Inspection of work
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Final checking at Library
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Articles go into public system
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http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper
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Search or browse – date, state, title
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Limit Results
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Interaction at article level
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Add a comment
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Fix text – power edit mode
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After enhancements
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Text correction
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One article corrected by many
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View all corrections on this article
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Show activity in results
RSS feeds
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Public activity
• Highest usage of any service at the National Library of Australia
• Extremely positive feedback
• Being cited internationally as an exemplary service
• Thousands of volunteers correcting millions of lines of text (12,000 volunteers, 17 million lines corrected)
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Hall of Fame
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Public Text correction10 million lines – Australia Day Awards
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Don’t stop correcting!
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391,378 lines improved
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finding information just got easier.....
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View comments added to newspapers
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RoseThe site you manage is a nightmare! It’s addictive. Keeps me awake at night. Congratulations!
Mary