National Digital Newspaper Program Research Articles

National Digital Newspaper Program (NEH)

National Digital Newspaper Program (NEH)

National Digital Newspaper Program (NEH)

National Digital Newspaper Program (NEH)

Grants & Acquisitions

The George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida (UF) received a grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to expand newspaper digitization efforts and continue participating in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). This is the fifth NDNP award the libraries have received since 2013, bringing the combined project total to nearly $1.5 million. The NEH award will fund the Ethnic Florida & U.S. Caribbean Region Digital Newspaper Project, building on work from previous project phases. During the eight-year period from 2013 to 2021, more than 400,000 pages of historical newspapers published in Florida, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands were digitized and made publicly available online. Over the next two years, the UF project team will continue to collaborate with partners at the University of the Virgin Islands libraries to digitize an additional 100,000 pages from newspapers published between 1800 to 1963. Selected content will include ethnic newspapers published in Florida and the Panama Canal Zone newspapers, and newspapers from the U.S. Virgin Islands. The project will run from September 2021 to August 2023. All digitized content will be text-searchable and freely accessible in the University of Florida Digital Collections ( www.ufdc.ufl.edu/ufndnp ) and Chronicling America ( https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ ), a site created and maintained by the Library of Congress for the National Digital Newspaper Program.

National Digital Newspaper Program (NEH)

National Digital Newspaper Program (NEH)

National Digital Newspaper Program (NEH)

National Digital Newspaper Program (NEH)

Successful Management of an Outsourced Large-Scale Digitization Newspaper Project

This article uses the case study of the Nevada Digital Newspaper Project (https://nvdnp.wordpress.com/), an extension of the National Digital Newspaper Program (https://www.loc.gov/ndnp/), to introduce proven strategies on how to successfully manage a large-scale digitization project. It provides tips on how to stay within the timeline and deliver products with outstanding quality, leveraging limited human resources, and engaging an external digitization vendor. It discusses practical project management techniques and tools, strategies for establishing collaborative vendor partnerships, and strategies for efficient communication with stakeholders.

米国・オーストラリアにおける新聞記事デジタル・アーカイブ 全米新聞デジタル化プログラム（National Digital Newspaper Program: NDNP）とAustralian Newspapers Online - Trove

米国・オーストラリアにおける新聞記事デジタル・アーカイブ 全米新聞デジタル化プログラム（National Digital Newspaper Program: NDNP）とAustralian Newspapers Online - Trove

The Vermont Digital Newspaper Project and the National Digital Newspaper Program

The Vermont Digital Newspaper Project (VTDNP) is a state partner in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). Developed by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC), the NDNP is a long-term, national effort to build a freely accessible, searchable Internet database of historical US newspapers. NEH provides funding to state projects to select and digitize historic newspapers published between 1836 and 1922. LC provides the technical support and framework for preservation digitization. Digitized newspapers are archived by LC and made freely available through the website Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Vermont joined the NDNP in July 2010, when the University of Vermont Libraries were awarded NEH funding to embark collaboratively with state partners—including the Vermont Department of Libraries, the Ilsley Public Library of Middlebury, and the Vermont Historical Society—on the Vermont Digital Newspaper Project. Institutional partnerships and the engagement of committed individuals serve as a foundation to the VTDNP and provide an avenue to expand statewide infrastructures to accommodate large-scale microfilm-to-digital conversion and preservation efforts. Through collaboration and outreach, project partners select and digitize historical newspapers from microfilm and promote Chronicling America, a tool for discovery of these primary historical resources.

Vermont Digital Newspaper Project: From Reel to Real

In the summer of 2010, Vermont began formal participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program with the launch of the Vermont Digital Newspaper Project (VDNP). Libraries, repositories, and other organizations from across the state partnered to select and digitize historical state newspapers to be made freely available on the Library of Congress website. Birdie MacLennan described previous projects that facilitated the development of the VDNP, and highlighted the preliminary labor involved in planning a large-scale digitization project and preparing the grant application. Tom McMurdo described the logistics of selecting a digitization vendor, preparing the materials for digitization, and then reviewing the finished product.

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/index.html. Created and maintained by the National Digital Newspaper Program, jointly sponsored by the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Reviewed Nov. 15-Dec. 29, 2007

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/index.html. Created and maintained by the National Digital Newspaper Program, jointly sponsored by the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Reviewed Nov. 15-Dec. 29, 2007

The National Digital Newspaper Program: Building on a Firm Foundation

The development of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) is founded on the distributed cataloging and preservation microfilming work of an earlier United States Newspaper Program. This article provides a high-level review of NDNP goals, participant roles, phased development approach, and the Chronicling America Web site.

The National Digital Newspaper Program: Building on a Firm Foundation

The development of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) is founded on the distributed cataloging and preservation microfilming work of an earlier United States Newspaper Program. This article provides a high-level review of NDNP goals, participant roles, phased development approach, and the Chronicling America Web site.

An OAIS-Compatible Data Repository for the National Digital Newspaper Program: Lessons Learned During Phase I

In 2004, an agreement between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities established the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), with a goal to create a digital resource of historical American newspapers. The twenty-year initiative would build upon the success of the United States Newspaper Program (USNP) in two ways. It would provide wider access to USNP-created bibliographic data, which cataloged information on newspaper titles published in the United States from 1690 to the present. NDNP would also fund state projects to digitize, from USNP and other microfilm, their local newspapers, with an eventual aim to make tens of millions of digitized pages freely available.With a mindset toward preservation, NDNP chose to follow the philosophy of the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Model. An OAIS-compatible repository was envisioned that would interact with discrete groups of actors, including: producers, managers and consumers. Since each group would have different roles with respect to the repository, the repository would need to present different options to each.During its first phase, NDNP created a working prototype, a proof-of-concept repository for implementation of ingestion, storage and dissemination processes. In order to accomplish this, the techniques used to produce, preserve and index the digital objects had to be reexamined and modified several times. Then in the move from a prototype scale to a scale that could encompass an increasing amount of pages, the initial repository assumptions were again reexamined.As the development phase of NDNP neared completion, a wide public release of the web site was scheduled for March 2007. In the process of scaling operations toward that wide public release, aspects of the repository structure were modified again based on the experience gained in building it. This paper offers a case study of OAIS implementation, specifically how OAIS concepts were interpreted, applied and sometimes modified over the development phase of a national digitization program.

A Technical Approach and Distributed Model for Validation of Digital Objects

This article describes the current technical approach for digital object validation used by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), a partnership between the Library of Congress (LC) and the National Endowment for the Humanities for the digitization of historical newspapers. The article also describes the scheme for distributing validation across the participating institutions that will be creating and submitting digital objects to NDNP. The approaches and schemes are now being tested for the first development phase of NDNP, but if successful, they could be generalized to other similar projects

Toward a Metadata Standard for Digitized Historical Newspapers

This paper is a case study of metadata development in the early stages of the National Digital Newspaper Program, a twenty-year digital initiative to expand access to historical newspapers in support of research and education. Some of the issues involved in newspaper metadata are examined, and a new XML-based standard is described suited to the large volume of data, while remaining flexible into the future.