Newspaper Digitisation Pilot Project

Welcome to the Waterford City Library Pilot Project Site

Irishmen! A Call to 50,000 Irishmen
Courtesy of The Waterford News

Newspaper Digitisation and Automated Indexing


"Waterford in Wartime 1914-1918"










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" Waterford in Wartime" is the theme for this pilot project and the "Waterford News 1914- 1918" has been selected as the test newspaper for this study.
 

About the Project

Waterford City undertook a pilot project to investigate the best practice for the digitisation of newspapers as part of Phase One of the Ask About Ireland and the Cultural Heritage Project, which supported five such projects in the digitisation of particular types of media (newspapers, 3D material, maps, etc.).

The Newspaper Digitisation Pilot Project invoved researching and learning how to create a full-text searchable online newspaper archive, making a small selection of Waterford City Library' s newspaper collection, full-text searchable via the CHP portal and producing guidelines and reports on the digitisation process and related issues.Download the PDF version of the Final Report for a step-by-step documentary on the project's progress.
 

Links

During our time on this project we have found the world wide web to be an invaluable resource. Here are links to some of the sites that we found useful. For convenience we have split them into 2 sections.

Digitisation Links

British Library
Centre for Digital Library Research
National Library of Australia
National Library of New Zealand
Arts and Humanities Data Service
Caribbean Newspaper Imaging Project
Nordic Digital Newspaper Library
Berkley Digital Library Sunsite
OCLC
Digiscan
CDDA
Trinity Library

Waterford Links

Waterford City Library
Waterford City Council
Waterford County Council
Waterford Treasures Museum
Waterford County Library
Waterford News & Star
Munster Express
Waterford Today
Waterford Genealogy Centre
Waterford City Archives
W.I.T. Library
Map of Waterford
More Waterford Links

Copyright

Material contained within this website is copyright protected unless otherwise indicated.

Waterford City Library does not make any representation as to the accuracy or completeness of information on this site.  Waterford City Library accepts no responsibility for any loss, damage or inconvenience which may occur from use of the information.

Material on this site may be retrieved solely for personal, non-commercial use.  Material may not otherwise be copied, modified, published, broadcast, transmitted or otherwise distributed without the expressed permission of Waterford City Library.  To obtain permission please contact digilibrary@waterfordcity.ie

The inclusion of hyperlinks to web pages on this site does not imply any kind of recommendation or endorsement by Waterford City Library.

Contacts

You can contact the Newspaper Digitisation and Automated Indexing Pilot Project:

By post :
Waterford City Council Library Headquarters,
Waterford City Council Depot,
Northern Extension Industrial Estate,
Old Kilmeaden Road,
Waterford.

Tel: +353-51-849839
Fax: +353-51-850031
E-mail: library@waterfordcity.ie

Project Leader - Emer Fitzgerald

You  can contact our Local History Section at:

Waterford City Library, Ballybricken Branch
31 Ballybricken, Waterford.
Tel: 051-309975
Fax: 051-850031
E-mail: library@waterfordcity.ie
(The full newspaper collection is held in both hardcopy and microfilm
and can be viewed by appointment.)