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Building a website to search over historic European newspapers, http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/newspapers/
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Europeana Newspapers9 June 2014 – London– Morning Edition
Published by Alastair Dunning, The European Library@alastairdunning, www.slideshare.net/alastairdunning
On 15th April 1912, the passenger ship Titanic, carrying over 2,000 passengers and crew, crashed into an iceberg on
its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York
Responses to the Titanic Disaster
http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=nzg&datum=19120417&seite=1&zoom=33
Responses to the Titanic Disaster
http://kranten.delpher.nl/nl/view/index?query=de+telegraaf+titanic&coll=ddd&image=ddd%3A110546692%3Ampeg21%3Aa0026&page=2&maxperpage=10&sortfield=date
Responses to the Titanic Disaster
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k289555z
Responses to the Titanic Disaster
http://hemerotecadigital.bne.es/details.vm?q=id:0000817544&s=0
Responses to the Titanic Disaster
News travels at different speeds, with importance
that diminishes at different rates.This is true now
as is was in 1912.(though the web changes things …)
The Europeana Newspapers project is making this kind of
investigation easier
A cross-searchable newspapers interface at The European Library
(with issue-level metadata forwarded to Europeana)
http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/newspapers
Currently: Search through full text of
around 2 million pages of full text
By 2015:
10m pages of full text, up to
2m issues
Searching by keyword, and organise by language, date, source library, title
Currently: Search through metadata records relating
to 1.12m issues – with links to source libraries
By 2015: Search through metadata records relating
to up to 4m issues - with links to source librariesBrowse by date or map
Full Text from following libraries
•Bibliotheque nationale de France / National Library France•Koninklijke Bibliotheek / National Library of the Netherlands•Landesbibliothek Dr. Friedrich Teßmann / Teßmann Library•Eesti Rahvusraamatukogu / Estonian National Library• Kansalliskirjasto / National Library of Finland• Latvijas Nacionala Biblioteka / National Library of Latvia•Biblioteka Narodowa / National Library of Poland•Milli Kutuphane Baskanligi / National Library of Turkey• Österreichische Nationalbibliothek / Austrian National Library•Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin / Berlin State Library•Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg / State and University Library• Univerzitet u Beogradu / University Library of Belgrade
Searching by title
Issue Level Records from following libraries
•National Library of Wales•St. Cyril and Methodius National Library / The National Library of Bulgaria•National Library of Czech Republic•National and University Library in Zagreb•Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België / Bibliothèque royale de Belgique•Narodna in univerzitetna knjinica / National and University Library of Slovenia•National Library of Portugal•National Library of Romania•Landsbókasafn Íslands - Háskólabókasafn / National and Univeristy Library of Iceland National Library of Spain•Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg / National Library of Luxembourg
Finding matching results in single or multiple issues
Highlighting search terms
So far, okay. Similar functionality to other national and regional digital
libraries of newspapers
See other archives via:https://www.google.com/maps/ms?msid=217164746645697066594.0004c3d764fcb71ed2314&msa=0
But what was the user response to an aggregation of European
newspaper libraries ?
Results of Usability Testing: http://www.europeana-newspapers.eu/wp-
content/uploads/2014/05/The-European-Library-Newspaper-Archive-Usability-testing-Report-
April-2014.pdf
“Aggregated view of content from many sources highly
valued.There was a strong positive
reaction to the availability of the archive.”
“Many saying they would be keen to return to the site as
the content expands.”
“Ability to search over geographic map was highly valued”
Plenty of quibbles about design
- positions of advanced options- re-order list of results- manipulating facets
Much greater expectations of functionality once logged in
For example,Saved searches
New content notification
“Much of the value of the site to participants was provided by the images of the documents.
Participants expected to be able to save a 'local' copy once they had located content of
relevance.
As no download facility is provided, this led to some frustration and undermined the overall
potential value of the site for some participants.”
Timetable for rest of projectNow – Protype version of interface shared with projectThroughout 2014 - Ongoing creation of OCR, and other related technical work (OLR, Named Entities)Throughout 2014 – Live version of website improved / usability testing / added contentAutumn 2014 - Final project conferenceLate 2014 - Newspaper browser completed with content and tools from project
More information athttp://www.europeana-newspapers.eu/
Interface at http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/newspapers/
Things the users didn’t say(but I thought they would)
Why can’t I edit the text ?
(Our sample was researchers/ maybe it is other communities interested in crowdsourcing?)
Note: If time permits, The European Library will develop some crowdsourcing feature
Can I download text for data mining?
Remember: Digital Humanists are still a small percentage of humanists and users
Note: Many of the texts are marked public domain, so this is feasible in legal terms
Number of digitised pages in interface: c.2m
Number of digitised pages in European libraries: c.130m
Number of physical pages in European libraries: 1.5bn+
Source: European Newspaper Survey Report http://www.europeana-newspapers.eu/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/D4.1-Europeana-newspapers-survey-report.pdf
The project digital library is only a fraction of the newspaper archive of the continent, indeed the world
As libraries, how should we represent that absence to users ?
Should such absence be represented in the interface itself ?
Vast white
spaces in the list of results ?
Provided standardised descriptions of digitised resources ?
Standardised information for every digital resource of presenting collections, content, licencing, re-use
Charts and graphs external to the interface ?
There are other issues too OCR quality varies Some pages (2m by 2015) have articles
segmentation Some library content has named entity
extraction effecting search results Different licensing statements from
different countries Date of copyright boundaries different in
each country
How should we allow users better ways to understand the digital
library ?
What role can the API play in this?
Can opening up the data in the digital library and allowing it to
explored in different ways ?
Traditional Model With an API
Interface(Created by Library)
Data(Published by Library)
Interface(Created by Third Party)
Data(Published by Library)
API – Application Programming Interfaces
Pioneering work of Trove API
Interface(Created by Library)
Data(Published by
Library)
Trove Newspapers site as published by National Library of
Australia, and based on data provided by Library
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper
Trove Newspapers statistics develolped by third party, based
on data provided by libraryhttp://wraggelabs.com/shed/trove/graphs/
Interface(Created by Third
Party)
Data(Published by Library)
Headline Roulette, developed by third party, based on data
provided by libraryhttp://wraggelabs.com/shed/headline-
roulette/
Interface(Created by Third
Party)
Data(Published by Library)
Word Count of Articles, developed by third party, based
on data provided by libraryhttp://dhistory.org/frontpages/53/words/
Interface(Created by Third
Party)
Data(Published by Library)
Sounds great !But … ?
How many people in this audience would now how to build an
interface on top of API?
How many users do you know who could build on top of an API ?
That is the problem I leave you to discuss
Thank you.
http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/newspapers
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