eluxemburgensia: the portal for Luxembourg's historic newspapers

Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg

Amsterdam 16.9.2013

eluxemburgensia

Yves Maurer

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Archive of historical newspapers 11 titles 60 000 issues 400 000 pages

Data scanning Timeline 2003 – 2007 : Scan images only 2005 first trial with METS/ALTO Since 2007 : METS/ALTO

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Drivers for newspaper UI

Existing functionality should be kept Pick by date View images, zoom, next page, next issue etc.

Internal Driver: METS/ALTO Full text search in whole collection Search in obituaries, image captions etc. Articles should be an entity

Site survey ANDP Paperspast ...

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Search - challenges

What do you search in? www.eluxemburgensia.lu (Digitool)

is based on issues www.a-z.lu (Primo)

is based on articles Bad OCR Three different search engines Poor metadata, rich fulltext -> snippets

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Search interface 1

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Search interface 2

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Search interface 2

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Viewer - challenges

Need to handle: Table of contents Search Article highlighting Show OCR text Browse thumbnails Navigation in the page (zoom, drag, gestures, article reading mode, ...) Deep links to articles and pages

Technical constraints Speed No flash Browser compatibility Integration with Digitool

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Viewer UI

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User feedback

Well received Especially from expat population and researchers

Wishlist – general patrons User OCR correction Embeddable viewer for blogs User collections with annotations Android app

Wishlist – researchers Access to full text data as linked data set Printing of individual articles Simple “microfilm-like” viewer for efficient viewing of entire collection

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Open source viewer

URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bnlviewer/

Used by http://www.periodika.lv/

BSD License

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Thank you

yves.maurer@bnl.etat.lu