Content providers, Researchers, Technology and the Crowd::Discovering the Best Possible Collaborative Strategies for Datafication and Publication of a Dutch Historical Newspaper Corpus

The National Library of the Netherlands (KB) makes over 130 million pages of newspapers, journals and books accessible via Delpher, and the collection is still growing. Delpher offers users the option to search the texts, to create selections based on metadata, and highlights results in the images (which is helpful because newspaper pages, for instance, can be a complex mix of articles). The digitisation and datafication is outsourced and omnifont OCR[1] is used.The advantage of this strategy is that large amounts of material can be made available quickly at low cost. The quality of the OCR fo... Mehr ...