Once the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program is established as a public service, it is intended to include Australian Newspapers digitised by other organisations. A model for Contributors will be established with central storage at the National Library and delivery of all Australian Newspapers through a single access point. If you are planning to digitise newspapers please refer to our current specification for scanning microfilm and our specification for Content Analysis and Optical Character Recognition which are available on the Project Details page. It will be important that Contributors create content to an agreed standard so that data can be included in the service and search and retrieval is consistent across all newspapers.
We'd like to be informed about current newspaper microfilming projects or hard copy digitisation of newspapers since these may be integrated into the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program in the future.
If your library or organisation has digitised Australian newspapers and is interested in sharing the files with the National Library of Australia, please contact us.
Forthcoming Search and Delivery Prototype release
We will be seeking feedback on our search and delivery prototype when it is released. Feedback will be sought from users on content, features and searchability. If you are interested in being involved, please send your details, including your phone number, through our contact us form.
Last updated Saturday 24-May-2008