Short presentation for Launch of Welsh Newspapers Online, 13th March 2013, Cardiff

1. Launch of Welsh
Newspapers Online
http://welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk/
Alastair Dunning
The European Library
13th March, Cardiff

2. The European Library
(http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org) acts as
central index point for library’s materials
from throughout Europe

3. Historic Newspaper Digitisation in Europe
Around 130,000,000 pages scanned
Just over 29,000 newspaper titles online
Around 85% are freely available

4. Europeana Newspapers
project is creating an
index of 18m pages that
point to library’s
newspaper webpages
The Welsh Newspapers are in a perfect
position to add to this

5. Why share with Europe?

7. New international contexts and
research questions

8. Exposure of Welsh language

9. Exposure of Welsh ideas / thinking /
history

10. Recognition of LLGC / NLW identity

11. Potential to work with others to
enrich the data

12. Within a European context a critical a
mass of data to help reach education,
creative industries, tourism, research

13. The Welsh Newspapers are in a perfect position to
add to that
Openness of content
Strong technical underpinnings – speedy, secure
delivery of image & text to user
A focussed collection for education and research
A resource that can expand and exploit other
opportunities