29 May 2014
Enabling access to digitised historic newspapers
Enabling access to digitised historic newspapers is an event being organised as part of the Europeana Newspapers Project with the aim to raise awareness of Europeana Newspapers and the value of collaboration to make historic newspapers content available online. It takes place at the British Library Conference Centre on 9 June 2014. There will be presentations from the UK partners in the Europeana Newspapers Project, The European Library and newspapers researchers.
The British Library is one of the partners in Europeana Newspapers, a three-year project running to January 2015 which aims to aggregate 18 million historic newspaper pages for Europeana and The European Library from across Europeana newspaper collections, and to convert 10 million of those newspaper pages to full text. Our role in the network is a relatively minor one, cheifly participating in the promotional work of the project and hosting this June event. The project is led by the Berlin State Library, and there are 18 project partners, 11 associate partners and 22 networking partners.
There are a few tickets left (at the time of typing ), which can be booked through this link.
Programme
09:30 -10:00 Arrival and Registrations (refreshments)
10:00-10:10 Welcome and aims of the day
10:10-10:30 News collections at the British Library (Dr Luke McKernan, British Library)
10:35-11:00 The British Newspaper Archive: Tales of the unexpected (Dr Ed King, Independent researcher)
11:10-11:40 Digital research and newspapers (Paul Gooding, Digital Preservation Coalition; Dr Ulrich Tiedau, University College London)
11:40-12:00 Welsh Newspapers Online (Alan Vaughan Hughes, National Library of Wales)
12:00-13:00 Lunch (provided)
13:00-13:30 Europeana Newspapers Project: an overview (Dr Rossitza Atanassova, British Library)
13:30-14:00 Europeana Newspapers browser (Alastair Dunning, The European Library)
14:00-14:30 Europeana Newspapers: evaluation and quality assessment (University of Salford)
14:30-15:00 Coffee break
15:00-16:00 Digitising and researching historic newspapers collections: panel discussion with Dr James Mussell, University of Leeds; Professor Lorna Hughes, University of Wales; DC Thomson Family History and others TBC
16:00 – End of the official programme
16:00-17:00 - Drinks and nibbles