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Studying Fashion Using Digital Historical Newspapers

Sarah “Moxy” Moczygemba

Outreach and Promotion Coordinator, FPRDNP

What is Digitization?

• Creation of a digital version of an analog source• For example: sound, image, object

• Why digitize?• Preservation

• Including avoiding obsolescence

• Broader access

• Teachable Content

• Newspapers an excellent candidate for digitization

Source: 2010 Smithsonian Digitization Plan https://www.si.edu/content/pdf/about/2010_SI_Digitization_Plan.pdf

Optical Character Recognition

• Automated process that converts printed text into computer readable text

• Chronicling America and other databases I’ll discuss are fully searchable

• Not perfect technology• Extraneous marks on page

• Unusual Fonts

• Misreading text or combining words

• This means that it isn’t as accurate as a search engine (like Google)

• Be patient with searches and think outside of the box.

From The Pensacola Journal August 16, 1908. Article retrieved from Chronicling America.

Search Term: Catholic

Search Term: Thailand

From The Monroe City Democrat (Monroe City, MO) August 22, 1907 Image Retrieved from Chronicling America

Tips and TricksWhen searching think about…

• Vocabulary• Historic spelling and typos• Change in terms

• Search parameters • Change scope to get more useful results

• Diversify name searches

• Affiliated organizations, businesses, and governing bodies

From the Pensacola Journal (Pensacola, Fla.) November 8,1914. Article retrieved from Chronicling America.

From The weekly true Democrat (Tallahassee, Fla.) October 26, 1906. Article retrieved from Chronicling America.

Some Digital Newspaper Repositories

• Proquest• Institutional Affiliation Required

• Access Newspaper Archive Academic Library Edition• Institutional Affiliation Required

• Readex/Newsbank• Institutional Affiliation Required

• LexisNexis• Institutional Affiliation Required, UF discontinuing subscription

• Google News• Open Access

• Florida Digital Newspaper Library• Open Access

• Chronicling America• Open Access

ProQuest

• Both historical and contemporary

• Historical Database includes long runs of papers we now identify as being important

• Shorter runs of other newspapers• Typically from last 40 years

• Good for period between 1923 and 1990s

ProQuest

ProQuest

Access Newspaper Archive Academic Library Edition

• Can think of as reverse ProQuest• Small local papers

• Also during “black hole” of digitization

Readex/Newsbank

• Two services run by the same company

• Newsbank is mostly more current papers

• Readex is historical• Multiple Services including

• World Newspaper Archive

• America’s Historical Archive

Google News Archive

• Ran from 2008-2011

• A million pages from over 2000 papers

• Best described as spotty global coverage

• https://news.google.com/newspapers

http://ufdc.ufl.edu/newspapers

Contributing Partners

National Digital Newspaper Program

• “ a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC), is a long-term effort to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages. Supported by NEH, this rich digital resource will be developed and permanently maintained at the Library of Congress. An NEH award program will fund the contribution of content from, eventually, all U.S. states and territories”

IngestAll content: 1)Chronicling America (ChronAm)

chroniclingamerica.loc.gov2)Florida & Puerto Rico Digital Newspaper Project

ufdc.ufl.edu/ndnp

English content:• Florida Digital Newspaper

Library (FDNL) ufdc.ufl.edu/newspapers

Spanish content:• Digital Library of the Caribbean

(dLOC)dloc.com

• Biblioteca Digital Puertorriqueñabibliotecadigital.uprrp.edu/cdm

Content & Functionality

Advanced Search

About the Papers

Why Language Matters

How to Cite Historical

Newspapers

• Cite like you would any other newspaper following the guidelines of a particular style (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.)

• Including the date you accessed it

• Provide the persistent/permalink available via the scissors icon in the page view.

• Permalink is for the entire page

• From this page you can also download image and print

Chronicling America Examples

From the El Paso herald (TX) http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88084272/1921-01-12/ed-1/seq-15/January 12, 1921.

From The Hawaiian star http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015415/1905-10-21/ed-1/seq-2/October 21, 1905

From The Ocala Evening Star http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn8402762

1/1911-09-08/ed-1/seq-5/ September 8, 1911

Stetson Brand

From The Ocala Evening Star http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84027621/1901-11-18/ed-1/seq-1/ November

18, 1901

From The Pensacola Journal http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87062268/1912-11-17/ed-1/seq-17/

November 17, 1912

Outside Advertisements

From The Palatka Daily News http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn8907004

9/1886-10-28/ed-1/seq-1/ October 28, 1886

From the Pensacola Journal http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87062268/1911-12-24/ed-1/seq-13/ December 24, 1911

Outside Advertisements

From The Ocala Evening Star http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84027621/1902-06-21/ed-1/seq-1/

June 21, 1902

Outside Advertisements-Popular Fiction

From The Pensacola Journal http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87062268/191

2-02-15/ed-1/seq-9/ February 15, 1912

From the Ocala Evening Star http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84027621/1911-12-16/ed-1/seq-4

December 16, 1911

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Sarah “Moxy” MoczygembaOutreach & Promotion Assistant

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