Stop the Presses!
Presenting the
Minnesota Digital Newspaper Hub
Karen Lovaas & Jane Wong
Minnesota Historical Society
Overview
• It began with newspapers
• Then preservation microfilm
• Then went digital
It began with newspapers
Then preservation microfilm
Then went digital
National
Regional
International
NDNP
NDNP ND
Swedish Newspaper Project
NDNP Iowa
SELCO
MNO
Coverage
Currently available
Coming soon
KE EMu and the NMS: New Data Model
Entities to be described/cataloged:
•Publisher
•Title
•Edition
•Page
•Multimedia
Lean design required for efficient web
delivery
Catalog module: Page record
Catalog module: Edition record
Catalog module: Title record
Catalog module: Publisher record
Catalog module: Text tab
Catalog module: Edition record, list of pages
Catalog module: Title record, list of editions
Catalog module: Publisher record, list of titles
Multimedia module: Jpg “master” file
Multimedia module: Resolutions
Multimedia module: Supplementary files
Automated ingestion
Pages from MNO publishers
•Web-based upload hub
•Publisher logs in, uploads files
•EMu Admin task imports uploaded files to NMS
and copies multimedia files to access and
preservation locations
Pages from NDNP program
•EMu Admin task imports issue, reel or batch from
NDNP preservation files on network
Demo
Minnesota Digital Newspaper Hub
http://newspapersdev.mnhs.org/web/mhsnews/web/imu.php?request=accesstool
http://newspapers.mnhs.org/imumhs/imu.php?request=accesstool
More
MHS Projects
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Chronicling America (NDNP) http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/newspapers/?state=Minnesota&ethnicity=&language=
Internet Archive http://archive.org/browse.php?field=subject&mediatype=texts&collection=minnesotahistoricalsociety
Minnesota Digital Newspaper Hub – Coming Soon
Where can you find Minnesota Newspapers
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Minnesota Digital Library - Reflections http://reflections.mndigital.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p16022coll2
Winona Newspaper Project - http://www.winona.edu/library/databases/winonanewspaperproject.htm
Where can you find other digital newspaper resources
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Chronicling America (Other participating states) - http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/newspapers/
California Digital Newspaper Collection - Veridian - http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cdnc
National Library of Australia – Trove - http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper
Utah Digital Newspapers – CONTENTdm - http://digitalnewspapers.org/
Commercial Publishers – behind pay wall, but libraries may have contracts
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