A Gateway to European Newspapers Online Building Common History and Identity Around Digital Materials INFORUM, Prague, May 21-24, 2012 Vesna Vuksan, University of Belgrade, University Library Svetozar Markovic

Project Profile Funded as Best Practice Network in ICT-PSP program of EC Duration:

Europeana Newspapers: Aims and Objectives Aims at the aggregation and refinement of newspapers for The European Library and Europeana. Will use refinement methods for OCR, OLR (article segmentation), and named entity (NER) and class recognition The libraries participating in the project will provide around 18 million digitised newspaper pages to Europeana Further libraries will be encouraged to contribute newspapers to Europeana and TEL by the project 3

4 Project Consortium 17 partners from 12 countries National libraries University libraries Others (association, private company) External partners and stakeholders: Involvement of libraries outside the project consortium Various stakeholders engagement (users, technical experts, typography experts, historians etc.)

EUROPEANA NEWSPAPERS CONSORTIUM NLF SBB ONB NLP BnF NLE SUB HH USAL NLL KB LIBER CCS NLT UB UIBK LFT BL

6 University Library in Belgrade: Role Involved in all segments of the project Adds pages of newspapers published in Serbia before Librarians from Belgrade will participate in developing EDM and finding new ways to make Europeana content more usable and more used. aims at creating innovative digital objects that will catch attention of users and bring back into focus the quality historical content.

7 Project outreach

Thank you for your attention! Vesna