NDNP and CONTENTdm: A Match?

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Ohio Newspaper Digitization Project
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NDNP and CONTENTdm A Match?
Todays Lead Article The Ohio Newspaper
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Two Men Suspected In Presentation

• Todays presenters
• Eric W. Schnittke, Project Coordinator
• Phil Sager, Digital Projects Developer

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The National Digital Newspaper Program

• Enhance access to all American newspapers
• Improve products of United States Newspaper
  Program (USNP) using current technologies
• Establish standards and best practices for
  newspaper digital reformatting and access
• Develop geographically-diverse program that
  benefits all US communities
• Use multi-phased approach for research and scaled
  development
• http//www.neh.gov/projects/ndnp.html

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Connecting to collections Ohio Newspaper
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GOSSIP Ohio Newspaper Digitization Project

• The Ohio Historical Societys Involvement With
  NDNP
• Chosen in the summer of 2008
• Digitize 100,000 pages
• Covering 1880-1922
• Ten Ohio Regions, Advisory Board
• Vendors for digitization, duplication
• Start with sample roll, ramp up

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Whats the Buzz? Chronicling America!

• www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/
• LCs website with participants entries
• Highly Searchable
• Eleven states So far.
• 1880-1910
• Start with sample roll, ramp up

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How Hard Is It To Do Online Newspapers?

• Can range from the
• Crude to the sophisticated
• Easy to the complicated

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Questions to Think About

• How much time, effort, money do you have to
  expend?
• How strictly would you like to adhere to the
  lastest best practices and standards?
• There is a certain amount of tradeoff

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NDNP Specification

• NDNP Spec gold standard, with respect to
  newspapers on microfilm
• Digitization standards
• Metadata creation
• http//www.loc.gov/ndnp/pdf/NDNP_200911TechNotes.p
  df for more info.

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• Although in several ways it stops short of the
  ideal, for example
• Page-level (vs. article level representation)
• No added-value descriptive metadata beyond
  title/edition
• E.g. manually keyed text such as birth and death
  notices, etc.)

NDNP Specification
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• Two Choices
• 1. OCLC NDNP loader software
• Advantages
• We wouldnt have to be involved much in the
  conversion process
• Yet still have some control over what assets and
  metadata are processed.

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• Two Choices
• 1. OCLC NDNP loader software
• Disadvantages
• New version still being worked on for CDMv5 (OHS
  NDNP data will be test-case)
• Fee-based
• License software (c.f. OCR license)?

Loading NDNP-formatted output into CONTENTdm
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• Two Choices
• 2. Vendor-prepared display files, plus tab file
• Advantages Free
• Disadvantages
• Probably will require more back-and-forth to get
  mappings correct for tab file
• Batch upload with Project Client
• May rule out option of JP2-based word-bounded
  highlighting

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• What metadata?
• Basic descriptive and structural metadata (e.g.
  title, issue, pagination, etc.)?
• Technical and administrative metadata?
• METS ALTO
• ALTO Analyzed Layout and Text Object
• METS schema extension
• Used to wrap word coordinate metadata (and other
  page layout data)
• Any hope of using without the OCLC loader
  software?

Vendor discussion points
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• What files?
• Searchable PDFs only?
• JPEG2000s only
• Both?
• Implications for
• Storage and backup
• Online user experience

Vendor discussion points
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• Looked at two methods
• 1. Multi-page PDF method
• Advantages
• Like the Adobe Reader 9 viewer interface
• Flexible format for printing

Ohio Jewish Chronicle (non-NDNP)
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• Looked at two methods
• 1. Multi-page PDF method
• Disadvantages
• Dont Like the old Adobe Readers (e.g. v6)
• Need to perform second in-document search to see
  highlighted hits
• Slower to load
• Vendor cost per page higher

Ohio Jewish Chronicle (non-NDNP)
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• Second method
• 2. TIFFs ? JP2s with OCR
• Advantages
• Viewer is all server-side
• Can take advantage of OCR and word-bounding
  functionality built into the Project Client
• Vendor cost per page lower

Ohio Jewish Chronicle (non-NDNP)
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• Second method
• 2. TIFFs ? JP2s with OCR
• Disadvantages
• Viewer not as good (as Reader 9)
• (Institutions trying alternatives like Zoomify,
  etc.)

Ohio Jewish Chronicle (non-NDNP)
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• NDNP spec is excellent, but demanding
• However, the difference in cost per page is
  substantial to produce NDNP formatted output
• Preference is to outsource microfilm
  digitization and metadata creation
• Might be hard to convince some institutions
  (including our own) that the NDNP way is the best
  way to go

Future Newspaper Efforts
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CLASSIFIEDS Questions? Comments?
Wiki http//ohsweb.ohiohistory.org/ondp Ohio
Memory http//www.ohiomemory.org Email us
at eschnittke_at_ohiohistory.org psager_at_ohiohistory.
org