[Oa-italia] Fwd: [IFLA-L] 1.5 million pages of digital newspapers
Mauro Guerrini
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Gio 17 Feb 2011 19:37:55 CET
Dalla Lista IFLA-L.
Saluti, Mauro Guerrini
1.5 million pages of digital newspapers in the reading rooms of the
German National Library
More than 1.5 million pages of digital newspapers can be accessed in the
reading rooms of the German National Library. Approximately 36,500
issues of German e-Papers can be read at the designated work stations in
Leipzig and Frankfurt am Main, the locations of the German National
Library. And the numbers are growing: the Library collects the daily
editions of roughly 300 e-Papers. From Monday to Saturday approximately
1,800 new editions are received by the Library; these are supplemented
by the weekly editions of 16 Sunday newspapers.
Newspaper publishers are increasingly producing not only printed
editions but also digital versions of the same content featuring the
same layout - so-called e-Papers - for their subscribers to access via
the Internet. The collection of e-Papers has significantly improved the
range which can be accessed by users in Leipzig and Frankfurt am Main:
they can now make searches of individual editions of e-papers or access
them directly at the click of a mouse from the catalogue. The digital
editions are available for use in the reading rooms just one week after
publication. This is a significant improvement on the previous provision
of newspapers on microfilm which required three to four months
processing time. It is not possible tooffer the service to external
users for copyright reasons. Nor is it possible for users to save an
e-Paper, or parts of it, in digital form and take it home - also for
copyright reasons.
The German National Library has developed an automatic process in
conjunction with a service provider, iSquare GmbH, in Berlin in order to
cope with the large amounts of data. This is used to harvest the
e-Papers from the publishers' servers and to convert them into a
standardised format. The format PDF/A-1b has been selected for this
purpose in order to create optimum conditions for long-term
preservation. The German National Library then ingests the data into its
systems, stores the data on its archive server and records it
automatically in its catalogue so that it is then available in the
reading room.
Contact: Kathrin Ansorge,_k.ansorge a dnb.de_<mailto:k.ansorge a dnb.de>
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Telefon: +49-69-1525-1063
Telefax: +49-69-1525-1010
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