It was the tenth and final Information day organised by partners of the Europeana Newspapers Project.

The event was attended by a large audience: 88 people in total, among them researchers, librarians, digital content providers, cultural heritage professionals, IT specialists, archivists, audio-visual professionals and teachers.

The speakers at the Information day were equally diverse. Thanks to them, the audience learnt more about many aspects of the project and its possible applications. The day was also an opportunity for those within the project to gather more information on the expectations of researchers with regard to digitised historic newspapers.

The day was made up of three parts.

Round Table #1: Why Europeana Newspapers?

Moderated by Elisabeth Freyre from the BnF, this first round table set the scene for the rest of the day through three presentations, which gave a detailed view of the project, its activities and goals.

The first presentation from Philippe Mezzasalma, Head of the Press department at the Department of Law, Economics and Politics at the BnF, was entitled The digitised newspapers collections at BnF: success and limits of the first historic newspaper digitisation work. It focused on how the BnF became involved in Europeana Newspapers. See the slides.

The second presentation from Hans-Jörg Lieder, Head of the department of bibliographic services at the Berlin State Library, reminded participants of the scale of the Europeana Newspapers project. See the slides.

Ioannis Anagnotopoulos, Coordinating manager of the Europeana Newspapers project at the BnF, set out the contribution of the BnF to the project. See the slides.

He noted that Europeana Newspapers had:

• Enabled the aggregation of historical European newspapers;
• Raised visibility of the Europeana portal and of the portals of partner libraries;
• Brought in a notable improvement of search features, thanks to the semantic enhancement of the data and metadata relating to the selected corpus.

Round Table #2: Technical innovation helping users

The aim of the second part of the morning session, moderated by Jean-Philippe Moreux from the BnF, was to take an in-depth look at the technical innovations of the project.

Günter Mühlberger, Professor and project director at the University of Innsbruck, the university responsible for processing the 8 million pages of the Europeana Newspapers project using OCR presented How can Optical Character Recognition technology help users in their research? See the slides.

Claus Gravenhorst, Director of strategy at CCS (the company which has processed 2 million pages of the project using OLR from 5 partner libraries), then explain the work done by CCS on OLR via his presentation Optical Layout Recognition: From unstructured to structured newspaper data. See the slides.

Clemens Neudecker, Coordinator of the Europeana Newspapers project at the Berlin State Library, then presented Development of Named Entities Recognition for French Newspapers. See the slides.

Alaa Abi Haidar, Researcher in data mining and complex systems at the BnF and the LiP6 laboratory, rounded off this session with a presentation that focused further on the purpose and applications of Named Entity Recognition. See the slides.

Round Table #3: What are the uses, practices, and expectations for the users?

With the afternoon session, the focus was put on the use of the digitised corpus in the project and the expectations of users. The session was moderated by Marc Minon, director of Cairn which is a platform for French-speaking periodicals.

This round table aimed to explore how the digital environment has changed the work methodologies of researchers, and to show what role Europeana Newspapers can play in this changing environment through the experience of the following speakers:

• Laurent Martin, Professor and lecturer at institutions such as the University of Paris III Sorbonne-Nouvelle, researcher at the Integration and Cooperation laboratory for European environments (ICEE) and member of the History Committee of the Ministry of Culture;
• Philippe Tétart, Senior lecturer in History (University of Maine), researcher and expert consultant to the National Sports Museum;
• Sophie Kurkdjian, Doctor of History at the University of Paris I, researcher working with the BnF and associate researcher with the IHTP-CNRS;
• Olivier Hamon, engineer and specialist in web semantics, working in the research and development unit of the company Syllabs.

All attendees received promotional materials, including a leaflet about the project and a promotional postcard printed with a French newspaper. Both were provided in French.

Overall, the day was rated a success by those who attended. A survey circulated after the event showed that over 90% of participants rated the presentations as Good or Very Good, and said they intended to explore the content made available by the project.

The event was mainly aimed at a French speaking audience and a translation service from English to French was available. The whole event was also recorded on video and will shortly be made available on the BnF website.

The day was publicised via a press release, activity on social media and a leaflet in Estonian. Additionally, an eight-page newspaper was put together by the ENP project team, using the content from old newspapers.

Just prior to the Information Day, the NLE was able to import 100,000 pages of newspaper content into its local newspaper portal dea.digar.ee. At the same time, 48,464 pages of Estonian content were imported to the Europeana Newspapers project’s own content browser. This meant that plenty of issues were available to show people at the Information Day.

Besides introducing the content itself, the audience was also informed about the project itself, the technical background such as why it is important to digitise historic newspapers (eg. poor condition, microfilming problems) and how these factors influence the result of techniques such as Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Optical Layout Recognition (OLR).

All of the talks contributed towards the four main objectives of the Information Day, which were to:

• Increase the overall awareness of the Europeana Newspapers project;
• Raise interest in historic newspapers in general;
• Introduce the availability and free access of the project’s results in the NLE’s local newspaper portal, in the project’s content browser and on Europeana;
• Promote the importance of digitisation, explain the techniques of OCR and OLR, to find volunteers to contribute via crowdsourcing (correcting the text after automated OCR while reading the old newspapers).

A well-known and very popular voice from Estonian Broadcasting News editorial, Märt Treier, was asked to moderate the event. The day was opened by the NLE’s Director General, Janne Andresoo.

The first speaker, Kristel Veimann — project manager of NLE’s newspapers portal and team member of the Europeana Newspapers project — spoke about the newspaper collection, digitisation process, the current situation and future plans related to the NLE’s own newspapers portal.

The second speaker was Ragne Kõuts, Scientist, Professor of University of Tartu, Faculty of Social Sciences and Education (Journalism, Communication Management). The presentation was titled Newspapers – to whom and why?

The third presentation —Newspapers and Family History Research — was about the issues of genealogists. Presented by Fred Puss, Researcher and Head of the Estonian Biographical Center.

The fourth presentation — Newspapers’ Role: From Early Patriotic Mind, the Estonian Age of Awakening to the Aspiration of National Statehood — was from one of the most well known people in Estonian journalism, Krista Aru. Krista Aru is someone who is always eagerly anticipated as a speaker, so it was an honour to have her at this Information Day.

The fifth presentation was made by the historian Aadu Must and was entitled Hidden Treasures Coming Out from Digitised Newspapers.

Krista Kiisa, project manager of the Europeana Newspapers project within the NLE, gave an overview about the objectives of the project, revealed technical details and explained the partners’ tasks and workflow of the project. Guidance was also given about where and how users could search European newspapers in The Europeana Library portal and in Europeana.

After the Europeana Newspapers presentation, an active discussion took place on the topic of how newspapers in different languages could be made understandable to other language-speakers, including the role of tools such as Google-translate in helping readers with this task.

The Information Day finished with a 10-minute long movie, dedicated to newspapers and made by the NLE’s Digitisation Department. That was followed by an excursion to Digitisation Department, where a live demonstration of the scanning, processing, OCR and segmentation of newspapers was given.

Most of the audience had no or very few information about the resources available in TEL and Europeana before the event and the need for such a day was obvious. Even an hour after the official end of the event, there were still people in the coffee corner, vividly discussing the issues related to newspapers!

The programme was tailored to attract end-users coming from backgrounds as diverse as the topics in a newspaper issue itself. Besides attendees from different Austrian universities and university libraries, teachers and students were welcomed at the event as well. Eight presentations were held throughout the Information Day, each highlighting another aspect of newspapers digitisation.

The Current State of Newspaper Digitisation
Hans-Jörg Lieder of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin not only introduced the Europeana Newspapers Project to the audience, but he also put the project into a wider perspective, examining the current state of newspaper digitisation. His conclusion that the present situation of newspaper digitisation is best illustrated by a photo taken shortly after the start of a marathon proved to be very thought provoking and was widely discussed.

His talk was followed by Christa Müller, head of the Austrian National Library’s digitisation department ‘Abteilung Digitale Services’. She focused on ANNO, the newspaper portal of the Austrian National Library. About 13 million newspaper pages are currently available online, of which about four million pages are searchable. Christa Müller also delivered insight into the selection process for digitisation and the planned functionalities of ANNO.

Günter Mühlberger of the University of Innsbruck, a technical project partner in Europeana Newspapers, gave an overview of the different stages involved in digitisation projects. While the emphasis was placed on technical aspects – OCR, quality of digital image, metadata – he also touched upon other areas such as the legal situation of historical newspapers or the archiving the digitised material.

Digitised, Historical Newspapers as a Source for Historical Research
After the coffee break two historians provided insights into their day to day work with digitised, historical newspapers.

Professor Oliver Rathkolb, who heads the Institute of Contemporary History (Institut für Zeitgeschichte) at the University of Vienna, pointed out how he was able to utilise digitised, historical newspapers in his own research. He especially highlighted that he was now able to work more significantly more efficiently, and at the same time was able to find material that had until now been undiscovered.

Rathkolb also emphasised the importance of bringing more recent historical newspapers online, for example those relating to the period between the First and Second World War.

The following talk by Dr Marie-Theres Arnbom — a freelance historian, author, curator and cultural manager — outlined how the portal ANNO helped her research using the example of a biography. She chose Victor Léon, a librettist, to illustrate how she was able to find details about his life she would have never discovered. She said that with the help of such portals as ANNO it is possible to reconstruct a whole life.

Both speakers cooperated with the Austrian National Library to digitise additional material. This shows that the relationship between memory institutions and researchers can be fruitful for both sides. Seeing how digitised material was used in actual research sparked great interest within the audience.

The Versatility of Digitised, Historic Newspapers
Lunch was followed by three talks – all diverse in content but oriented on practical aspects.

Clemens Neudecker of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin investigated the problems but also opportunities when using digitised newspapers as a base for research in Digital Humanities. He pointed out that a term such as ‘Big Data’ is also relative. After all, only an estimated four percent of European holdings have been digitised so far.

His talk was followed by Eva Maria Naimer. She shared her experiences of employing digitised newspapers in secondary school teaching – an especially exciting application of the content made available through newspaper portals. Eva Maria Naimer showed how different topics, such as censorship and the changing image of women can be illustrated by examples of newspaper articles. The following lively discussion engaged in topics such as if really all content should be made available to students – a topic which has seldom been discussed in connection with newspapers digitisation so far.

Martin Schaller, who held the last talk at the Information Day, gave an overview of different online newspaper portals, highlighting especially the content browser developed within the project.

Following the last presentation, the audience had the possibility for an in-depth discussion of their questions in three more informal Q&A sessions.

Key messages of the Information Day
The Information Day was well received amongst participants. The talks emphasising the use of digitised newspapers were especially heavily debated, sparking interesting questions and further contemplation. The relevant examples highlighting how this source is actually utilised, not only in historical research but in teaching as well, gave the audience an impression of its versatility. However, newspaper digitisation is only in its beginnings and more work, especially in increasing the results of Optical Character Recognition or introducing Named Entity Recognition, needs to be done. To use Hans-Jörg Lieder’s metaphor mentioned in his talk: The starting shot just faded away, now we need to keep going.

The event was covered in social media, especially on Twitter. Tweets #eurnewsVIE show comments on talks.

On Tuesday 28 October 2014, the Europeana Newspapers Information Day took place at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of the Netherlands (KB) in the Hague.

Among our audience were over 40 librarians, archivists, representatives of educational and cultural institutions, as well as professional and amateur researchers; in short, a diverse group of end users interested in historical newspapers. The audience was very active, which led to interesting discussions throughout the day.

The programme included presentations about the digital newspaper collection of the KB, about the Europeana Newspaper project in general and about the newspaper browser by The European Library in particular. Moreover, two academic researchers presented their approach to newspapers as a source of historical information and what they thought was the added value of combining the European newspapers in one portal.

Presentations

The Information day was opened by Dr. Els Van Eijck Van Heslinga, the KB’s Director of business operations.

She introduced the Europeana Newspaper project and made clear that participating in these type of projects is very important for research libraries such as the KB and adds value to their collections. Moreover, she made clear how the new browser (accessible through The European Library) which was developed within the project, made it so much easier and attractive to do transnational comparative research.

The next presentation was by Huibert Crijns, Collections specialist at the KB. He described the efforts of the KB in digitizing Dutch language newspapers residing in a large number of institutions in the Netherlands. The collection of digitised content is available through Delpher.

Dr. Samuël Kruizinga, embedded researcher at the KB and Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Amsterdam, made clear how he makes use of historical newspapers in his current research project, which focuses on the memory of the First World War in the Netherlands. He pointed out that newspapers are a rich source of information, because they contain all kind of ’hard’ data such as financial, legal, commercial and social information as well as information about ‘public opinion’. Kruizinga further stressed that it remains crucial to establish the position of a certain newspaper and its readers to be able to interpret its content.

Dr. Pim Huijnen, Postdoctoral researcher in the Translantis project at Utrecht University, proceeded by illuminating the ’digital turn’ in humanities research. He clarified some of the practical aspects of using digital resources and the ’bottom-up’ approach, i.e. browsing large full-text corpora by means of keywords. Pim Huijnen pointed out that the method of ’distant reading’, typical for digital humanities and increasingly popular because of the availability of large digital collections, is not enough in itself to answer humanities research questions. However, the use of online newspapers collections such as Europeana Newspapers offers great opportunities to start looking for patterns and developments over time or within different geographical areas.

Lotte Wilms, Project leader European Projects at the KB and Work package leader for Europeana Newspapers, gave a detailed description of the work performed within the Europeana Newspapers project. She explained the process of aggregation and the different tasks related to refinement.

Marieke Willems, Communication Officer EU Projects at LIBER, presented the newspaper browser which was developed within the project and is now available through The European Library. She gave a live demo of the browser and performed a number of queries to show the opportunities for end users.

See http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/newspapers for the browser.

Results

The Information day provided us with a great opportunity to actually talk to our (potential) end users and hear about their experiences and suggestions for improvement. During and after the presentations, the participants gave their feedback, questions and comments to the speakers. The most important outcomes of these interactive sessions were:

• Users would be happy to find documentation on the functionality and options of the browser on The European Library’s website
• Users would like to see search functionality and downloading options to be further developed
• The aggregated content could be made available through an API to be usable in a virtual research environment. This aspect is relevant especially for digital humanities researchers, who will then be able to use their own tools on the data
• The Europeana Newspapers collection could be even more attractive for teachers if more specific functionality is provided to allow for educational usage

It was an inspiring afternoon and we are very happy with the recommendations provided by the participants.

The official report is available here.

The first event was held within the context of the South Tyrolean Day of Libraries scheduled on Saturday 25^th of October. Main goal of the event was to highlight the interest of online digitised newspaper collections and to offer low-threshold information about interesting historic content on local and European level and how to search for it, structured in 5 activity stations. The event was open to everybody.

The second event was a Specialists’ Meeting Day on Monday, 27th of October, aiming to bring together German, Austrian and Italian experts to outline the current state of the art of digitisation and illustrate different approaches in the European countries. The targeted audience was personnel in charge of digitisation within Libraries and Archives as well as any operator dealing with digitisation projects.

Within the Day of Libraries, LFT organized an event under the motto “Hot from the press – breakfast with historical newspapers”, aiming to attract not only regular library users. The event was structured in 5 activity stations following the key principles of participation, action and entertainment. All stations were attended by a library staff member and could be visited in free order. At the information stand on a big screen, different Europeana information material like the Europeana Newspaper animation and Europeana Newspapers presentation slides has been shown in a loop. Every hour a project collaborator gave a short introduction to the main objectives and results of the project. At Station 2: Historic Newspapers to touch, original historic newspapers were displayed. White gloves were provided to point out the fragility of the material. A library staff member gave some rules for handling the originals and basic information about the exposed issues. On a tablet it was possible to browse the same newspaper issues by using the TEL browser. At Station 3 The European Library Work Station – not only local newspapers, the default setting on the library computers, which usually is the library’s catalogue, was the European Library newspaper browser. Visitors were invited to browse the newspapers of different countries and to check out the different search options or to try the full text search by keywords. Being a Saturday morning, the visitors were offered a small breakfast at Station 4: Hot from the press I, a cup of coffee, a freshly pressed orange juice, croissants or a slice of „newspaper cake“.

At Station 5: Hot from the press II, visitors had the opportunity to have their own picture printed on a historic newspaper front page, choosing from different samples. An instant picture taken of the visitor, completed by some „historical“ props and costumes as hats, furs or feather boa, was placed on the chosen newspaper page, printed and handed out.

At the end of the Information Day, about 200 visitors were counted. Most of them were regular library users, but also a great number of “new” public attended the library and the response was more than positive.

At the specialists’ Meeting day held on the 27 of October 2014, 9 experts from 4 countries (Germany, Austria, Italy, England) spoke about the complex topics related to the enhancement of digital newspaper collections, such as refinement techniques, semantic enrichment and research, visualisation of information and digital long-term preservation.

The day started with general information about the Europeana Newspapers project, provided by LFT director Johannes Andresen, who gave an overview of the project’s partners, aims and objectives. Next on the agenda was key note speaker Dave Thompson from Wellcome Library, London, with a generic view about things to do (and to avoid) when starting a digitisation project. He talked about the importance of creating sustainable processes and the need to ensure that digitisation is considered as a fully inclusive end-to-end process.

He was followed by Günter Mühlberger from the University of Innsbruck, entering in the complex topic of Optical Character Recognition, which is a must for digital collections if we want to access, link or work with the content of historical newspapers. Mühlberger gave an overview on today’s available software solutions and pointed out the need of post-processing of OCR results. He underlined the importance of structural recognition of newspapers, where new approaches beyond article separation are needed, i.e. the recognition of different content units, as obituaries, continued novels or advertising, as a source of unique content that cannot be found elsewhere.

This led to the next speaker, Michel Genereux form EURAC, Bolzano, who is actually working on the attempt to automate the procedures for correcting faulty OCR-ed text by use of computational linguistic methods.

Clemens Neudecker from Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Berlin State Library) talked about the importance of Named Entity Recognition (NER) and Europeana Newspapers project great efforts to enhance the software for NER developed by Stanford University to make it suitable for a multilingual and library context.

The focus of the following speakers was all on Italy. Patrizia Rossi introduced the audience to the efforts made by CSI-Piemonte, the Information System Consortium to which Piedmont’s Public Administration entrusts the management and implementation of its ICT services, in building a Digital archive of journalistic information. Heart piece of the Digital Archive is the Historic Archive of ”La Stampa”, a daily newspaper published without interruptions since 1867.

Andrea Bolioli from CELI, Torino, gave more tecnical insights about search functionalities, facets and visualisation of content, i.e. the creation of time graphs to visualize the frequency of a search term in a certain time period.

In the afternoon session, Maurizio Messina, director of Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice, gave an introduction to long term conservation of digital objects. He emphasized how preservation is an expensive and tricky thing to accomplish individually, that needs a centralized organisation with the help of e-Infrastructures including cloud and grid systems. Messina presented”Magazzini Digitali[1]”, the Italian legal deposit service for digital resources promoted by the Italian Ministery of Culture (MIBACT).

Messina was followed by Andrea Marchetti, researcher at the Italian National Research Council (CNR). His lecture was focused on visualisation methods and the way big data material can become more understandable using visual encoding as maps, graphs, timelines, word clouds, charts or infographics.

The Meeting Day ended with an outlook on the changing meaning of the idea of ”collection” in the digital age and the future ”hybrid library” given by Klaus Kempf from Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich. The most outstanding changes are the transition from the concept of ownership to the one of access, the growing importance of open access and a much more wider understanding of what collection means, including all sort of media, from print to electronic to online resources.

The experts’ Meeting Day saw 110 registered participants from every sort of memory institution (with a small part of presence of digitisation service providers), taking a chance to learn more about the digitisation work flow that follows the scanning process. The goal to bring together experts from Italy and the German speaking neighbor countries has been fully successful.

The official report can be found here.

• National Library of France in collaboration with Gallica
• National Library of Estonia
• British Library

December 1st-5th, 2014

• National Library of Austria
• Berlin State Library
• Friedrich Tessmann Library
• Hamburg State and University Library 
• University Library of Belgrade

December 8th-11th, 2014

•  National Library of Finland
•  National Library of Estonia

December 15th-19th, 2014

• National Library of the Netherlands
• National Library of Poland
• National Library of Turkey

Audience
47 participants attended the day, the majority of whom were academic researchers from different disciplines: history, English, social science, media and digital humanities. The audience included also representatives from UK national, research and public libraries, online publishers and funders. The other two UK-based partners, The PRImA Research Lab at The University of Salford and The National Library of Wales, also attended the event and contributed to the programme. The participation of all these groups led to a very productive dialogue during the day, especially during the final panel discussion. The event programme was varied and comprised eight presentations.

National digitised historic newspapers collections
Dr Luke McKernan introduced the UK national collection of newspapers held at the British Library and the Library’s provision of news service in its newly opened Newsroom. Currently over 8 million digitised pages are accessible in the British Newspaper Archive (BNA) created through the Library’s Public Private Partnership with DC Thomson Family History. This is 2% of the physical collection held by the Library.

Ed King, former Newspapers Curator at the British Library, illustrated the breadth and depth of subjects covered in the digitised newspapers in the BNA: from the expected news reports and editorials to the less expected celebrity gossip, science and music news. Researchers want to see more local/regional titles and shorter runs digitised; in other words, the ones that did not make it.

Professor Lorna Hughes presented the Welsh Newspapers Online portal which gives access to 6.8 million newspaper articles in English and Welsh. The National Library of Wales is building a cohesive national collection that is freely accessible to all in order to realise the potential social, research and economic benefits of the resources.

Showcasing research on digitised newspapers
Digitised newspapers open new opportunities for scholars who combine a subject interest with digital methods of research. Two academics working in the field of digital humanities, presented on their research interests in digitised newspapers. Dr Paul Gooding revealed some of the findings from his doctoral study of the impact on users of large scale newspaper digitisation and highlighted the value of digitised newspapers as sources of contemporary information for user behaviour studies.

Dr Ulrich Tiedau a historian and digital humanist introduced the new international Assymetrical Encounters Assymetrical Encounters project that will apply text-mining techniques to multilingual and transnational digitised corpora, including newspapers, to answer questions about reference cultures in Europe.

Europeana Newspapers Project
The project partners and deliverables were introduced by Dr. Rossitza Atanassova. Alastair Dunning’s presentation on the design of the prototype ’browser’ and the usability testing feedback provoked an audience discussion on the quality of OCR, the value of crowdsourcing, the limitations/bias of online newspaper archives. Stefan Pletschacher impressed the audience with his presentation on the evaluation and quality assessment workflows and tools developed by the PRImA Lab.

The day ended with an engaging panel and audience discussion on the value digitised historic newspapers have for researchers and other user groups. Participants welcomed the creation of a cross-searchable European historic newspapers archive. However, they felt that the multilingual content could be a barrier for the public and that this could be helped by embedding a translation software on the interface. A problem for researchers is that only a small proportion of the historic newspapers are available online and thus the focus of their research is quite narrow. Researchers want to see more newspapers digitised with OCR available for all titles.

An important message of the day was that content providing institutions need to understand better the research value of the digitised newspaper collections to justify future digitisation and secure funding.

Participants engaged in wide social media coverage throughout the day, sharing positive comments, photographs and highlights from the presentations on Twitter. There were about 50 Tweets using the #UKInfoday hashtag. Photos of the day are available on Flickr, presentation slides on slideshare. See also the excellent Storify account of the day compiled by Luke McKernan.

The core aim of the Seminar was to present digital material regarding WWI and review the possibilities and limitations of using digital resources.

The Europeana Newspapers Project was presented by Ulrike Kölsch, who spoke about “Historical Newspapers in the Digital Age” and stressed the challenges and solutions in developing a cross-searchable newspaper browser, which will provide access to over 18 million digitized historical newspaper pages from 12 European libraries.

Further presentations concerned the practical aspects of using digital resources: Paulina Błaszczykiewicz discussed the content and functionalities of the Polish Digital National Library POLONA, and Kamil Śliwowski spoke about “Copyright in the digital world,” especially in the context of educational activities. A workshop, moderated by Magdalena Rud, was dedicated to the question “How to use the Digital National Library POLONA for school teaching,” and Ad Pollé and Frank Drauschke discussed the Europeana 1914-1918 crowdsourcing campaign and showed how public libraries could participate in it, in collaboration with local communities.

The seminar was attended by over 100 participants, mostly teachers, librarians, and historians, and sparked great interest. It was therefore a good opportunity to promote the Europeana Newspapers Project and other digitization activities of the National Library of Poland to a new audience. The event also allowed us to gain valuable feedback on the expectations and needs of an important target group of users.

The event will take place over two days, February 27-28th, and will include:

• an overview of the project;
• insight into ongoing work to digitise newspapers in Germany;
• an explanation of the technical work (OCR, OLR) and quality control being carried out by the project.

The event will be held in German, and a full agenda can be downloaded here. Space is limited, so please contact Project Coordinator Ulrike Koelsch if you wish to attend.