ITR/IM: Digitizing the Burney Collection of Early English Newspapers

ITR/IM：对伯尼早期英文报纸收藏进行数字化

• 批准号: 0219461
• 负责人: Henry Snyder
• 金额: $ 30.3万
• 依托单位: University of California-Riverside
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-09-01 至 2007-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0219461&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ITR; IM; Digitizing; Burney; Collection

The Center for Bibliographical Studies at the University of California, Riverside, is in the process of digitizing the Burney Collection of eighteenth-century English newspapers at the British Library. Access is currently possible only through a single microfilm copy in the reading room, because of the fragility of the originals. Use of even a digitized version could remain cumbersome and time-consuming because of the large size of the collection, 650,000 pages, and access limited by date and title. Heretofore the vagaries of handset type, uneven lines, broken letters, smudged or changing ink intensities and yellowing paper, it has not been possible produce an accurate, searchable text through available optical character reading software. The emergence of new technologies now enables the Center to produce a searchable text with a high degree of accuracy. A fully searchable text linked to digital images will permit extraordinary access and unlock for researchers the incredibly rich range of data the Collection contains. The result will provide a new model for accessing both periodicals and monographs of the hand-press era. It will open up whole new research strategies and topics. And it will extend the wonders of computer-based text searching to the corpus of texts that form the foundation of the modern world.

加州大学河滨分校的书目研究中心正在对大英图书馆伯尼收藏的 18 世纪英文报纸进行数字化。 由于原件脆弱，目前只能通过阅览室中的单一缩微胶卷副本进行访问。由于馆藏规模庞大、有 650,000 页，并且访问受到日期和标题的限制，即使使用数字化版本也可能会很麻烦且耗时。 迄今为止，由于手机类型的变幻莫测、线条不均匀、字母破损、墨水强度弄脏或变化以及纸张泛黄，还不可能通过现有的光学字符阅读软件生成准确的、可搜索的文本。 新技术的出现使该中心能够生成高精度的可搜索文本。 与数字图像链接的完全可搜索的文本将允许研究人员进行非凡的访问并解锁该馆藏所包含的极其丰富的数据范围。 结果将为访问手压机时代的期刊和专着提供一种新模式。 它将开辟全新的研究策略和课题。 它将把基于计算机的文本搜索的奇迹扩展到构成现代世界基础的文本语料库。