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Metadata and data structures for the historical newspaper digital library

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Robert B. Allen,

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CIKM '99: Proceedings of the eighth international conference on Information and knowledge management

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https://doi.org/10.1145/319950.319971

Published: 01 November 1999 Publication History

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We examine metadata and data-structure issues for the Historical Newspaper Digital Library. This project proposes to digitize and then do OCR and linguisting processing on several years worth of historical newspapers. Newspapers are very complex information objects so developing a rich description of their content is challenging. In addition to frameworks for the logical structure and physical layout, we propose metadata relevant to the image processing and to the historians who will use this collection. Finally, we consider how the metadata infrastructure might be managed as it evolves with improved text processing capabilities and how an infrastructure might be developed to support a community of users.

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Allen RJapzon AAchananuparp PLee K(2007)A framework for text processing and supporting access to collections of digitized historical newspapersProceedings of the 2007 conference on Human interface: Part II10.5555/1766591.1766619(235-244)Online publication date: 22-Jul-2007
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Metadata and data structures for the historical newspaper digital library
1. Applied computing
  1. Computers in other domains
    1. Digital libraries and archives
    2. Publishing
  2. Document management and text processing
    1. Document capture
      1. Optical character recognition
2. Information systems
  1. Data management systems
    1. Database management system engines
  2. Information systems applications
    1. Digital libraries and archives

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