stop the presses! presenting the minnesota digital newspaper hub

Stop the Presses! Presenting the

Minnesota Digital Newspaper HubKaren Lovaas & Jane WongMinnesota 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• 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• 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• 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

THE END