National Library of Australia

Project Details

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.

Program Overview:

Digitisation:

Processing and OCR of Newspapers:

Apex CoVantage have produced an online video of their zoning process for digitising newspapers: IZAAC zoning and algorithmic conversion system (external link)

Metadata:

System Architecture:

Content Management System:

Search and Delivery System:

Latest documents about Beta Service:

Statistics of Beta Service Usage:

Public Collaborative Text Correction:

Thank You to Contractors:

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