The Europeana Newspapers Project held a workshop in Amsterdam in September 2013. This presentation from Yves Maurer shows the work of the National Library of Luxembourg.

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Amsterdam 16.9.2013
eluxemburgensia
Yves Maurer

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www.eluxemburgensia.lu
 Archive of historical newspapers
 11 titles
 60 000 issues
 400 000 pages
 Data scanning Timeline
 2003 – 2007 : Scan images only
 2005 first trial with METS/ALTO
 Since 2007 : METS/ALTO

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Drivers for newspaper UI
 Existing functionality should be kept
 Pick by date
 View images, zoom, next page, next issue etc.
 Internal Driver: METS/ALTO
 Full text search in whole collection
 Search in obituaries, image captions etc.
 Articles should be an entity
 Site survey
 ANDP
 Paperspast
 ...

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Search - challenges
 What do you search in?
 www.eluxemburgensia.lu (Digitool)
is based on issues
 www.a-z.lu (Primo)
is based on articles
 Bad OCR
 Three different search engines
 Poor metadata, rich fulltext -> snippets

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Search interface 1

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Search interface 2

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Search interface 2

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Viewer - challenges
 Need to handle:
 Table of contents
 Search
 Article highlighting
 Show OCR text
 Browse thumbnails
 Navigation in the page (zoom, drag, gestures, article reading mode, ...)
 Deep links to articles and pages
 Technical constraints
 Speed
 No flash
 Browser compatibility
 Integration with Digitool

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Viewer UI

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User feedback
 Well received
 Especially from expat population and researchers
 Wishlist – general patrons
 User OCR correction
 Embeddable viewer for blogs
 User collections with annotations
 Android app
 Wishlist – researchers
 Access to full text data as linked data set
 Printing of individual articles
 Simple “microfilm-like” viewer for efficient viewing of entire collection

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Open source viewer
 URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bnlviewer/
 Used by http://www.periodika.lv/
 BSD License

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Thank you
yves.maurer@bnl.etat.lu