The Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program is a long term ongoing program. In the early stages of set-up it is being managed as a project, until all workflows and procedures are well established.
The documents here outline the project information to date. The documents will be updated and added to as work progresses.
Apex CoVantage have produced an online video of their zoning process for digitising newspapers: IZAAC zoning and algorithmic conversion system (external link)
Latest documents about Beta Service:
We express thanks and appreciation to the following contractors for their involvement in the establishment of the program from March 2007- November 2008.
Project Computing - for IT architecture and programming
EMC - for building of high speed fibre optic 63 TB storage array
NextScan - for upgrading NextStar scanning software to meet our needs
W & F Pascoe Ltd - for loan of master microfilms and scanning 1.8 million newspaper pages
Apex Co-Vantage - for OCR of 360,000 newspaper pages
Oxide Interactive - for user interface development of Australian Newspapers Beta System
Last updated Thursday 11-Jun-2009