Enriching Europeana Newspapers Nuno Freire, Europeana Foundation/The European Library Clemens Neudecker, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin,

The Challenges The Generic Challenge – How to facilitate the re-use of Cultural Heritage language resources for research purposes – … by exploiting the existing and emerging European research infrastructure How can the resources be discovered How can the resources be shared in practical ways for researchers How can advanced computation be applied to these Cultural Heritage datasets How can the resources and datasets be cited and referenced in research How can the Cultural Heritage institutions re-use the outcomes of research The Specific Challenges of the Pilot – Creating best practice guidelines for the publication, citation and impact measurement of cultural heritage data – Enriching the corpus of historic newspapers via information extraction – Showcasing the value of the enrichment by a quantitative analysis – Working collaboratively between cultural heritage organizations and researchers from computer science

Why EUDAT? We will be using the B2SAFE and B2FIND services – These will help us undertake the enrichment of the datasets and, more generally, expose them for re-use by other academics from all areas of knowledge – At present, users of the corpus tend to be ‘traditional’ historians who are familiar with the search and browse possibilities of the Newspapers Portal – Engaging with computer science researchers, enriching and studying the corpus – Connecting with the EUDAT services and tools

The expected future impact To gain a better understanding of the corpus – topics, themes and subjects featured in the newspapers To improve the corpus – re-use the outcomes of the pilot in resource discovery – provide back value to the cultural heritage organizations To evaluate the difficulties and benefits of EUDAT – Ease of technical interfacing – In resource discovery – In corpus uptake and sharing – In data citeability – for applying computation to cultural heritage data