A presentation of the Nevada Digital Newspaper Project on the annual meeting with our partners in Carson City, NV (2017). The first part of the presentation is authored by me and it covers the overall project management providing details about statistics, workflow, vendors, technologies, innovations and project challenges.

1. NVDNP Annual Meeting
Second cycle 2016-2018
April 17, 2017
Carson City, NV

2. Topics
• Project updates
• Project workflow
• Statistics
• Website
• Planned website additions
• Google Maps

3. Project updates
• New project staff
• Marina Georgieva, NDNP Project Manager
• Oscar Giurcovich, NDNP Project Technician
• New digitization vendor
• Apex CoVantage
• Secondary duplication vendor
• UC Berkeley Libraries
• Redesigned website
• www.nvdnp.wordpress.com
• Partially altered workflow
• Changes occurred to ensure efficient collaboration with Apex

4. Project workflow: overview
• Title selection
• Advisory board prioritized and selected titles for digitization
• Duplication
• NSLA and UC Berkeley duplicate reels based on approved Title List
• Collation
• Titles are collated based on Title List priority
• Titles are divided into 10 batches each one consisting of 10,000 pages
• Digitization
• Apex digitizes the images and encodes the metadata from the collation
• Quality review
• NVDNP team reviews data to ensure high quality product
• Submitting data to LC
• Data is submitted in 10 batches
• Depositing reels in LC
• Final step after all batches are accepted

5. • Collation
• New collation spreadsheets – same metadata
• Advantages: simplified workflow
• Fewer fields to fill
• Fewer spreadsheets to manage
• Simplified submission process: Basecamp vs. iArchives portal
• Digitization
• New vendor – new scanning process
• Reels shipped in 4 big batches instead of 10 small ones
• Advantages: saves time!
• Scanning ahead of collation
• Encoding data after receiving metadata spreadsheets
• Flexibility what’s included in each batch
Project workflow: what’s new

6. • Quality review
• Simplified QR process
• Simulates the user environment
• Allows us to interact with the data the same way as users do
• Allows more efficient data review
• Saves time
• Easier to catch errors
• Installing local instance of Chronicling America which replicates the
official project website
• Each batch is uploaded and reviewed separately
• All clumsy steps involved in using the iArchives portal are omitted
• QR feedback is simplified, too
Project workflow: what’s new

7. • Goal: 100,000 pages digitized by Aug. 2018
• Current collation numbers:
• Total pages collated: 25,016
• Total reels collated: 29
• Total batches collated: 2.5
• Reels prepared for collation: 77
• Reels shipped to Apex for scanning: 24
• Sample reel (584 pages)
• Pending acceptance by LC
• After acceptance will be reworked into production batch
Project statistics

8. Project statistics: graphic
• User-friendly graphic that precisely
represents the overall project progress
• How to read the graphic
• Project broken down into 11 batches
and 1 final step
• Each batch is further broken into
smaller steps
• Graphic is updated in the beginning of
the month to reflect all steps that were
completed during the previous month
• Each batch has a progress bar showing
how much is completed
• The overall progress bar summarizes
the data from the batches
• Progress bar percentage is accurate to
+/- 0.5%
https://nvdnp.wordpress.com/digitized-newspapers/second-cycle/progress-report/

9. • Complete redesign
• Improved information
architecture
• Improved navigation
Project website
www.nvdnp.wordpress.com
• Improved user
experience
• Rich content
• Updated monthly

10. • New top level category: NEVADA HISTORY
• Provide full text essays to digitized NV newspapers
• Provide quick access to all newspaper title changes
• Any other suggestions?
Planned website additions
NEVADA HISTORY
TITLE
CHANGE
GRAPHIC
TITLE
CHANGE
GRAPHIC
TITLE
CHANGE
GRAPHIC
TITLE
CHANGE
GRAPHIC
TITLE
CHANGE
GRAPHIC

11. • Interactive visual
representation of the NDNP
Master Title List
• Color-coded pins let users
easily distinguish among
• Digitized newspapers
• Currently being digitized titles
• Titles for digitizing in the future
• Details about newspapers
such as title changes and time
span
Google map:
Nevada Historic Newspapers
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1nJ-mm-JNjPX8nPcuPEauGgIBrIs&ll=39.35976982229496%2C-117.10951184999999&z=8

12. Second cycle 2016-2018
Marina Georgieva
NDNP Project Manager
Tel.: 702-895-2310
Email: marina.georgieva@unlv.edu
www.nvdnp.wordpress.com
Thank you!

13. NVDNP – Outreach and Publicity
• Social Media Presence
• Video Tutorials
• Working with the
Community
• Handouts Available
• Questions / Feedback /
Suggestions

14. Current Social Media Presence
• Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nvdnp
• Twitter @nvdnp - https://twitter.com/nvdnp
• Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/nvdnproject/
• Phasing Out in Near Future
• Investigating Instagram

15. NVDNP Social Media - Research
• Social Media Strategy
• Reviewing Engagement and Traffic
• Social Media Platform Metrics
• Post Views and Reach
• Assessing Engagement Through Likes, Comments etc.
• Strategies to Increase Interaction with Users
• Content Calendar
• Hashtags
• Content Marketing
• Using Interactive Tools Embedded in Social Media

16. Tutorials
• Hosted on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/chann
el/UCsP783pmhQLPK0mcjgsnjpA
• General Approach to Video Series
• Video 1: Finding Historic Nevada
Newspapers Online
• Video 2: Browsing Nevada
Newspapers in CA
• Future Videos: Search
Strategies/Tips with a Nevada
Focus

17. Working with the Community
• Genealogy Fair – July, 2016
• UNLV Libraries
• UNLV Libraries Communications
• Humanities Librarian / Liaisons
• Open House
• Possible Future Events
• Exploring Your Family's History -
Genealogy Series (Clark County
Library)
• 2nd Annual Genealogy Fair – June

18. Swag / Handouts Available
• Bookmarks
• Poster
• NDNP Handout
• NEW! Nevada
Handout
• Find NV Newspapers
in Chronicling
America
• Links to NDNP,
Chronicling America
and Other Awardees
of Interest

19. (Almost) The End!
• Target Audiences for Project
• UNLV Community – faculty, students
• K-12 – Partner with UNLV Education Library Staff
• Genealogists Through Public Library System
• Nevada Historical Societies
• Suggestions for Other Groups?

20. Thank You!
Oscar Giurcovich
Project Technician, NVDNP
(702) 895-2046
oscar.giurcovich@unlv.edu