Abstract
This paper describes the production of a title-level list of British, Irish, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies newspapers (1621–2019) held by the British Library, and its potential for reuse and research. The data was extracted from the British Library’s catalogue of over 24,000 British and Irish newspaper titles, cleaned, and published on the British Library Research Repository, an open access repository for the research produced by staff and research associates of the British Library. Bespoke versions of the data have been made available to specialist users, notably the British Library/Alan Turing Institute’s ‘Living with Machines’ project, enabling greater historical analysis of nineteenth-century British news and selective digitisation.
Highlights
Produced as part of the British Library’s Heritage Made Digital newspaper project, digitising historical newspapers and exploring options for creative re-use of newspaper data
The collection of British and Irish titles runs from 1621 to the present day. It is not absolutely complete, but most titles published from the 1840s onwards are held, and effectively all titles are held from 1869 onwards, when Legal Deposit was introduced, by which publishers are required to send one copy of each newspaper issue to the British Library
The newspaper catalogue is at title-level, with changes in a newspaper title and regional variants resulting in a new catalogue record, and often a new catalogue record where there has been a change in format
Summary
Produced as part of the British Library’s Heritage Made Digital newspaper project, digitising historical newspapers and exploring options for creative re-use of newspaper data (https://blogs. bl.uk/thenewsroom/2019/01/heritage-made-digital-the-newspapers.html). Produced as part of the British Library’s Heritage Made Digital newspaper project, digitising historical newspapers and exploring options for creative re-use of newspaper data The data was extracted from the British Library catalogue (through the Aleph Integrated Library System) by the Collection Metadata team.
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