1. Digital library of Spanish old newspapers and magazines National Library of Spain

2. Introduction The Newspapers Digital Library is the begining of the Biblioteca Digital Hispánica, which aims to disseminate through the Internet the Spanish Bibliographic Heritage preserved at the National Library In this first stage, public access to the Digital Library of Spanish Old Newspapers is offered, with 143 titles, edited between 1772 and 1933, which means to be able to access 500.000 digitised pages.

3. Goals 1. To offer public access to the Spanish National Library old newspapers collection 2. To become a reference to research and consultation of the Spanish press 3. To open cooperation channels with other centers to complete and find collections

4. Technical Characteristics  Following the recommendations of UNESCO’s World Memory Programm :  Minimum resolution of 300 p.p.p.  According to the characteristics of publications: RGB colour, grey scales 256 levels or white and black  The files format is TIFF Compression CCITT Group IV to white and black and TIFF Compression JPEG to grey scales or colour.  OCR reading of each digitised page.  PDF files with hidden text and JBIG2 compression to disseminate images on the web  All PDF files will have miniatures

5. Old newspapers like historical resource Political Chronicle Biographic data and cultural activities Socioeconomic research Mean of transmission of literary text Technical and cientific evolution Study of the History of the press

6. Cronological scope 17721927

7. Subject scope: Political Newspapers: 46 titles

8. Subject scope: Satirical Newspapers: 16 titles

9. Subject scope: Cultural Press: 16 titles

10. Subject scope: Pleasant Press (femenine): 12 titles

11. Subject scope: Literary Press: 7 titles

12. Subject scope: Humorous Press: 7 titles

13. Subject scope: Press of Events: 7 titles

14. Subject scope: Scientific reviews

15. Subject scope: Travel Magazines

16. Subject scope: Ilustrated magazines

17. Subject scope: Sport Press

18. Subject scope: Religious Press

19. Subject scope: Magazines for Children

20. Subject scope: Bullfighter magazines

21. Subject scope: Sensationalist Press

22. Subject scope: Free (of charge) Press

26. TITLE PLACE OF PUBLICATION YEAR

27. When you select a title, the place of publication and the year is updated in concordance to the collection available

30. TITLE PLACE OF PUBLICATION CITY OF PUBLICATION DATE OF PUBLICATION DESCRIPTION

31. LINK TO BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

33. Bibliographic record in the catalog of the National Library of Spain Link to the Digital Library Link to paper items in the Library

34. Paper items in the Library

35. Paper items Microfilmed items Digitalized items

36. ITEMS IN DIGITAL LIBRARY

37. Go to digital items

72. Statistics MonthVisitorsVolumePagesFilesAccess April 13.416362,56 GB92.579471.546836.791 May 14.423351,45 GB107.749545.374893.893 June (1-15) 5.489112,54 GB38.158200.100341.702 Total 33.328826,56 GB238.4861.217.0202.072.386

73. Statistics: average data per day MonthAccessFilesPagesVisitors April 27.89315.7183.085447 May 28.83517.5923.475465 June (1-15) 22.08913.0222.458345

74. Next future To increase as much as possible the number of digitized titles and digitized pages:  Between 2007-2008 we are going to invest more than 500.000 € to get more than 3 million of new digitized pages To integrate this collection – at least at title level – in the OAI Server of Hispanic Digital Library

75. Thank you very much Teresa Malo de Molina Technical Director directora.tecnica@bne.es