1. Understanding large digital collections and learning new tools: The Texas Digital Newspaper Program Visualizations. Mark Phillips & Will Hicks

2. As digital libraries continue to grow, they: Challenge existing infrastructure for searching and browsing Make it hard to communicate the size and scope of resources Have the opportunity to supply resources for those interested in the “long tail” of topics

3. Understanding and communicating the scope and scale of digital collections is important because: Allows for engagement with user communities Introduces new opportunities for interaction Helps promote underlying resources

4. The UNT Libraries Digital Collections currently has 429,591 items in 500+ collections/groupings. These are published to the world as: The Portal to Texas History The UNT Digital Library The Gateway to Oklahoma History

5. The Texas Digital Newspaper Program Promotes standards based newspaper digitization, presentation and access Empowers interested partners of all sizes to provide greater access to their local newspaper content. Newspapers are published on The Portal to Texas History and preserved in the UNT Libraries Digital Archive.

6. TDNP Statistics: Over 1 million pages 132,000+ issues 3.6 million item uses 1829 – 2013 date range 596 titles 102 counties 131 communities

7. In February 2013 The Portal to Texas History celebrated its 1 millionth page of Texas Newspapers We creating several visualizations to help communicate this collection to users We printed out two of them because they were rather huge

10. Printed 4 ft. x 8 ft. Hung on the wall (by the cake) People interacted with the poster in interesting ways.

11. Another was over 25 ft. long Visualized every day since 1829 Issues, Pages, Uses

12. D3.js

13. JavaScript Library

14. Plays with others

15. Well Documented (d3js.org/)

16. arkcreatedtitle printed county city pages uses ark:/67531/metapth1000002010-06-28The Collegian 1923-11-27 Brown CountyBrownwood4 24 ark:/67531/metapth1000012010-06-28The Collegian 1923-12-11 Brown CountyBrownwood4 68 ark:/67531/metapth1000022010-06-28The Collegian 1924-01-21 Brown CountyBrownwood4 24 ark:/67531/metapth1000032010-06-28The Collegian 1924-02-11 Brown CountyBrownwood4 51 ark:/67531/metapth1000042010-06-28The Collegian 1924-02-20 Brown CountyBrownwood8 42 ark:/67531/metapth1000052010-06-28The Collegian 1924-03-13 Brown CountyBrownwood4 35 ark:/67531/metapth1000062010-06-28The Collegian 1924-03-31 Brown CountyBrownwood4 45 ark:/67531/metapth1000072010-06-28The Collegian 1924-04-17 Brown CountyBrownwood4 30 ark:/67531/metapth1000082010-06-28The Collegian 1924-05-06 Brown CountyBrownwood4 28

17. arkcreatedtitle printed county city pages uses ark:/67531/metapth1000002010-06-28The Collegian 1923-11-27 Brown CountyBrownwood4 24 ark:/67531/metapth1000012010-06-28The Collegian 1923-12-11 Brown CountyBrownwood4 68 ark:/67531/metapth1000022010-06-28The Collegian 1924-01-21 Brown CountyBrownwood4 24 ark:/67531/metapth1000032010-06-28The Collegian 1924-02-11 Brown CountyBrownwood4 51 ark:/67531/metapth1000042010-06-28The Collegian 1924-02-20 Brown CountyBrownwood8 42 ark:/67531/metapth1000052010-06-28The Collegian 1924-03-13 Brown CountyBrownwood4 35 ark:/67531/metapth1000062010-06-28The Collegian 1924-03-31 Brown CountyBrownwood4 45 ark:/67531/metapth1000072010-06-28The Collegian 1924-04-17 Brown CountyBrownwood4 30 ark:/67531/metapth1000082010-06-28The Collegian 1924-05-06 Brown CountyBrownwood4 28 40

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19. CC0 Licensed Dataset: Phillips, Mark Edward and Hicks, William. Texas Digital Newspaper Program Million Page Dataset. UNT Digital Library. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc158 400/

20. Mark Phillips – mark.phillips@unt.edu Will Hicks – william.hicks@unt.edu http://texashistory.unt.edu