1. Leveraging the Results of NDNP: the Texas Digital Newspaper Program

2. Today we are talking about how...

3. The UNT Libraries

4. The Portal to Texas History

5. Leveraged

6. The National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP)

7. To create

8. The Texas Digital Newspaper Program (TDNP)

9. Background:

10. The Portal was started in 2002

11. By Cathy Hartman

12. To provide a gateway to Texas History

13. From around the state of Texas

14. From all types of insititutions

15. We opened our public site in 2005

16. And we've been adding content ever since.

18. From the beginning People

19. Wanted to digitize newspapers

20. Every small town in Texas

21. Wanted to digitize newspapers

22. When you asked historians, they

23. Wanted to digitize newspapers

24. But newspapers are challenging to digitize (at least to do it well)

25. We said “let us cut our teeth on other things first”

26. We digitized

27. Photographs

28. Negatives

29. Ledgers

30. Scrapbooks

31. Laws

32. Books

33. Maps

34. All sorts of content

35. It was time to look at newspapers

36. (It was kind of scary honestly)

37. But we pushed forward

38. And in 2007 started working with NDNP

39. Now we had a standard (The Library of Congress is good at defining standards)

40. Now we had a vendor

41. Now we had a workflow

42. Now we had collaborators Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

43. We had newspapers coming in

44. We were happy

45. But...

46. NDNP was limited in scope (which makes sense)

47. Paper of record for a geographical region

48. (Texas is really big)

49. 1880-1910 (expanded in later years of NDNP)

50. English language only

51. Focused on traditional papers

52. Once people learned we started doing newspapers...

53. They came a calling

54. People wanted to digitize their papers.

55. Small, medium, and large towns

56. From 1830-2007

57. In other languages

58. They wanted to digitize school newspapers

59. So we had to figure out something

60. This is all amazing content.

61. Additionally...

62. Vendors were going around offering libraries “a great deal”

63. Digitizing at a very low cost

64. And low quality

65. With limited access to only the single institution

66. Basically locking up the content again

67. So we got together with our colleagues

68. Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

69. Texas State Library and Archives Commission

70. To form

71. The Texas Digital Newspaper Program

72. TDNP promotes the use of standards

73. Specifically the Library of Congress standard

74. It created a workflow to film newspapers.

75. It created a workflow for depositing master negatives in a vault.

76. It created a workflow for finding master negatives

77. It created a program for high quality digitization of newspapers.

78. We started to work with more institutions around Texas

79. Some wrote grants to digitize newspapers (through TDNP)

80. Some funded their projects

81. Others started raising money

82. And we started scanning newspapers.

83. We currently have over 21,000 issues online

84. Over 70,000 pages of Texas newspapers

85. From 27 counties (of 254)

86. Covering from 1829 until 1982

87. We have 130,000 pages in the queue to upload (ingesting newspapers takes quite a while btw)

88. We plan to have over 400,000 pages by Fall 2011

89. The access system for the TDNP newspapers is the Portal to Texas History

90. Where the content can “play” with other content

113. Look at the content playing well with other content (isn't that cute)

114. And totally cool... (you know it is)

115. So where do we go next?

116. We want to add new collaborators to TDNP

117. We want to scan more papers

118. We want to work with born digital papers (who is collecting those anyway?)

119. We want over a million pages of newspapers

120. Freely available

121. To anyone who wants to user them

122. Come take a look http://texashistory.unt.edu