[PADG:1645] Re: Newspapers Digitization Redux

["Patricia P. Selinger" <pepalmer@xxxxxxx>]

Robert,
At ALA Midwinter, I attended the OCLC seminar "All the News That's Fit to Scan:
Increasing Access to Historic Newspapers".  Olive Software representative Alon
Men demonstrated his company's software which scans whole pages of newspapers so
they can be browsed.  The software also has great search capabilities.  See
http://www.olivesoftware.com.

I'll be glad to send a copy of the handout, which is Men's Powerpoint
presentation.

Patricia

"Robert J. Milevski" wrote:

> Folks,
>
> Based on the one reply so far, it is evident that I did not ask my question
> correctly.
>
> I would like to know if anyone has digitized newspapers and makes them
> available for viewing page by page, as with the Making of America books.
>
> I am not interested so much in searching (via OCR'd text and a good search
> engine) for specific information in the newspaper, eg the obituary of some
> famous person or the chronicling of a major event, etc., but in having the
> ability to browse through the paper--looking at headlines, illustrations,
> advertisements, etc--and then zooming in on what I fancy, much like how we
> look at newspapers today.
>
> My other key interest is discovering whether any such digitizing newspapers
> were scanned in color, grayscale, or black and white.  Thank you.
>
> Robert
>
>   At 08:28 AM 4/5/02 -0500, you wrote:
> >At 08:10 AM 4/5/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >>I do have another newspaper question, however.  Has anyone digitized bound
> >>or unbound newspapers (or do you know of someone who has)?  If so, is this
> >>work available on the web?  I am referring here to digitizing the actual
> >>newspaper rather than a microfilm of it.
> >>
> >>Thanks.
> >>
> >>Robert
> >
> >Hi Robert,
> >
> >Try this link for the New York Times digitization.
> >http://www.proquest.com
> >Try the digitized vault first
> >Kopana
> >
> >Kopana Terry
> >University of Kentucky
> >Reprographics Department
> >110A M. I. King Library South
> >Lexington, KY 40506-3329
> >859-257-3329
> >Fax: 859-257-3388
> >klterr0@xxxxxxx
> >
> >"Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did.
> >    She just did it backwards and in high heels!"
> >
> >
> >--- Linda Ellerbee
> >
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>
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> Robert J. Milevski
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> Manager, Typography Studio
> Princeton University Library
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> Princeton, NJ 08544
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Patricia Palmer Selinger
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