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Launch of Welsh Newspapers
Onlinehttp://welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk/
Alastair DunningThe European Library
13th March, Cardiff
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The European Library (http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org
) acts as central index point for library’s materials from throughout
Europe
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Historic Newspaper Digitisation in Europe
Around 130,000,000 pages scanned
Just over 29,000 newspaper titles online
Around 85% are freely available
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The Welsh Newspapers are in a perfect position to add to this
Europeana Newspapers
project is creating an index of 18m
pages that point to library’s newspaper
webpages
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Why share with Europe?
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New international contexts and
research questions
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Exposure of Welsh language
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Exposure of Welsh ideas / thinking / history
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Recognition of LLGC / NLW identity
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Potential to work with others to enrich the data
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Within a European context a critical a mass of data to help
reach education, creative industries, tourism, research
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Openness of content
Strong technical underpinnings – speedy, secure delivery of image & text to user
A focussed collection for education and research
A resource that can expand and exploit other opportunities
The Welsh Newspapers are in a perfect position to add to that
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