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Welsh Newspaper Online
Prof Lorna HughesUniversity of Wales Chair in Digital CollectionsNational Library of Wales‘Enabling Access to Digitised Historic Newspapers’British Library, June 9th 2014
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Digital Collections and the National Library of Wales
• Digitisation supports: • Access to Welsh and
Celtic materials by global audience
• Preservation• Collections enhancement
and reunification• Transformation of
scholarship• Community engagement
• A cohesive, national collection
• Underlying principle: free access to digital content
• www.llgc.org.uk
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The National Digital Public Library of Wales
• A cohesive, national collection that is freely available to all
• Based on internal expertise/capacity in the entire digital lifecycle: selection, conservation, capture, management and preservation
• Copyright and other intellectual property rights cleared as a managed part of digitisation process:
– Where material is on deposit and/or the current rights holders are known, permission is requested: where declined, materials are not used; when current rights holder is unknown, reasonable efforts are made to identify and/or contact the rights holder.
• Digitised resources licensed for re-use and re-purposing under an open license (BY-NC-SA): Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Sharealike license
• Free access is key to realising the potential community, social, research and economic benefits of digitised resources
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Papurau Newydd Cymru Arlein | Welsh Newspapers online
http://welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk #PAPUR
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NLW Newspaper archive
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Conservation: part of digitisation workflow at NLW
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Welsh Newspapers online• 6.8 million articles, 630,000 pages, 92 publications and
growing.• Already funded – over 1 million pages online by Autumn
2014 (funded by WAG, ERDF, JISC).• Coverage: 1804 (The Cambrian, first weekly in Wales) –
1919.• Wales, Borders and Welsh diaspora (USA).• English and Welsh language content (approx. 30%
Welsh).• Out of Beta Autumn 2014.• Free (+ open license).• Europeana Newspapers (Associate Partner, sharing
metadata).• User engagement and analysis – built into planning and
ongoing development.http://welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk #PAPUR
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Quntinshill rail disaster, Cambrian Daily Leader, May 26th, 1915
http://welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk #PAPUR
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Quintinshill rail disaster, Y Dydd, May 28th, 1915
http://welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk #PAPUR
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Next steps for Welsh Newspapers Online
• Big project vision to build inclusive virtual national collection for Wales – integrated with other repositories of Welsh content.
• Share content - Europeana? Wikipedia?• Add value - enrich metadata, user tagging, text
correction, LOD, expose graphic content, geo-location.
• Discovery –new platforms for new devices.• Embedding: new projects using the resource in
research – data mining, historical network analysis; teaching – support use in curriculum.
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Using Welsh Newspapers Online in teaching: Wales at War
http://walesatwar.org
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Cymru 1900 / Wales 1900 Developing a a gazetteer of Welsh place names from OS 6 inch maps using Zooniverse platform – launched October 2013
CrowdsourcingSourcing tasks traditionally performed by specific individuals to a group of people or community (crowd) through an open call: e.g., to help capture, systematize or analyse large amounts of data (“citizen science”)
cymru1900wales.org
@cymru1900wales
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Using Welsh Newspapers Online data with digital tools and methods for research• Approaches to data
mining one million pages of Welsh Newspapers Online
• Enabling the large-scale analysis of spatial and temporal data
• Also investigating Historical Network Analysis of data
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The power of archives in the digital age
• “Most people look at history like a performance on a stage. They don’t look behind the curtains to see what is really happening. Museums and libraries are windows onto the truth.”
• Sun Xun, 29/11 2013, New York Times