Creating Digital Newspapers for the Web

Course description

Institutions can now digitize their microfilmed newspaper collections and make them accessible and searchable via the World Wide Web. This workshop will focus on issues involved with both preserving and digitizing newspaper collections, particularly the back-end processing steps necessary to create searchable indexes. The workshop provides the opportunity to review and discuss appropriate methodology and software applications for digitizing newspaper collections.  Useful background: Basic knowledge of preservation and digitization terminology and techniques.

What you will learn

• Awareness of issues surrounding the digitization of newspapers;
• Knowledge of strategies for digitizing newspapers;
• The ability to make an informed decision about what strategy is appropriate for a particular situation; and
• Introduction to newspaper digitization technical options.

Course details

Duration: 1 Day

Fee:
$75 Western Members
$125 All Others

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