Printed mass media and automatic digitisation: the case of Belgian illustrated magazines from the interbellum

This contribution aims to highlight the potential of automatic digitisation for the preservation and the valorisation of printed media heritage through the case of mass-market illustrated magazines produced in Belgium during the interwar years (1918-1940). As extensive bound collections of these resources held in KBR’s Contemporary Printed Books Department form the main corpus of the interdisciplinary research project ARTPRESSE*, which studies Belgian art and media landscape as networked structures seen through the lens of these serialised publications, their mass digitisation and disclosure o... Mehr ...