Newspaper Digitization: paper microfilm digital→ →Managing United States historic newspapers

from the perspective of state projects

ERENST ANIP - LIBRARY ASSISTANT PROFESSORVERMONT DIGITAL NEWSPAPER PROJECT (VTNDP)UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT, USAat U.S. Embassy – Jakarta - February 2015

Paper: original form

Microfilm: preservation

+ State Partners

= USNP/ United States Newspaper Project

Digital: access

NDNPNational Digital Newspaper Project

Workflow

IN-STATE PARTNERSHIP

EQUIPMENT

CATALOG UPDATECATALOG UPDATE

TITLE ESSAY @ 500 WORDS

TITLE ESSAY @ 500 WORDS

DUPLICATE

MICROFILM

REELS

DUPLICATE

MICROFILM

REELS

100,000 PAGES

DIGITIZED

100,000 PAGES

DIGITIZED

DELIVERABLES

The search for a digitization vendor

OR

produce in-house•Goal: 10,000 pages per months•NDNP tech spec & timeline•Some of the vendors ->

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP)

Metadata

Knowledge: managed

OUTREACH

[VIRTUAL]OUTREACH

[IN-PERSON]OUTREACH

Knowledge: adding value

http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/topics/

QUESTIONS?

Chroniclingamerica.loc.govlibrary.uvm.edu/vtnp

Erenst Aniperenst.anip@uvm.edu

@tsnere