Collection, preservation, and access for born digital newspapers Frederick Zarndt PlanmanConsulting, Inc Coronado CA USA New Delhi India

What is a born digital newspaper?  Any print newspaper whose first instantiation is digital  Any print newspaper whose content and format are created using software such as  Adobe CSx  Quark  CCI  Any newspaper printed from a digital file

Born digital newspapers collection and preservation  Born digital newspapers are collected and preserved at  Bibliothequenationale de France  British Library  Singapore National Library Board  University of California Riverside  University of Kentucky  Others?

Born digital newspapers access  Access to born digital newspapers provided at  University of Kentucky  Singapore National Library Board coming 2010  University of California Riverside coming 2010  British Library  Others?

Born digital newspapers  PDF variations are significant between publishers  PDF’s from publisher have no metadata  PDF/A  1b for long term visual preservation  1a metadata plus 1b  METS wrapper for PDF’s  Image derivative of PDF (JPEG2000)  ALTO

In-copyright newspapers  Straits Times from 1845 to the pr esent day  News source: SPH, AP, Reuters, …  Access policies for each  Issue  Article  Photo / illustration  Copyright holder permits  Searchable from anywhere  Restricted views

In-copyright newspapers  University of Kentucky  Small, mid-sized Kentucky newspapers  Collaboration with Kentucky Press Association  Copyright holder permits  No quarantine period  Searchable anywhere  Viewable anywhere

Recipe for born digital newspapers 1Decide if access will be page-level, article-level, or both 2Agree with publisher about 1Copyright 2Distribution restrictions 3Blackout period 3Collect born digital newspapers 1File naming convention, for example, title_yyyymmdd_ppp 2FTP server 3CDs, DVDs, etc 4Processing software for METS/ALTO XML ? 5Access and access control software

Cost per page (USD) Print newspapersLowHigh Microfilm production from printed newspaper$0.15$0.20 Image production from microfilm$0.05$0.10 Data production from images$0.40$0.60 Total$0.60$0.90 Born digital newspapers Microfilm production from digital files (COM)$0.10$0.15 Data production from digital files$0.20$0.30 Total$0.30$0.45 Digital object production costs

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