Digitisation projects and best practice

Newspaper digitisation projects worldwide

• ICON survey on newspaper digitisation projects
• Wikipedia:List of online newspaper archives

United States - National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP)

• www.loc.gov/ndnp
• www.loc.gov/ndnp/guidelines
• www.loc.gov/standards

Utah Digital Newspapers Program

• http://digitalnewspapers.org/about

Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program

• https://www.nla.gov.au/ndp
• https://www.nla.gov.au/ndp/project_details

National Library of the Netherlands (KB)

• www.kb.nl/hrd/digi/ddd/technisch-en.html
• www.kb.nl/hrd/digi/ddd/project-en.html

Best practice and recommendations

• Definitions and Abbreviations
• Preparing a digitisation project
• IMPACT Digitisation Cost Estimator V3 (version 3.06, January 2011; SUB Göttingen)
• Digitising newspapers from hard copy
• Digitising newspapers from microfilm
• Advantages and obstacles of digitising from microfilm:
  IMPACT Case Study - Digitising from Microfilm (Hans van Dormolen, KB Nederland, 2011)
• Digital image output
• JPEG 2000 as a Preservation and Access Format for the Wellcome Trust Digital Library
• OCR (Optical Character Recognition)
  • IMPACT Briefing Paper OCR (Niall Anderson, British Library, 2010)
  • IMPACT Best Practice Guide: Optical Character Recognition – (Niall Anderson, British Library, 2010)
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3

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Last update: 9 December 2014