Digitisation of Newspapers at the British Library
Digitisation of Newspapers at the British Library
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大英图书馆报纸数字化
DOI：
10.1300/j123v49n01_07
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发表时间：
2005
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Edmund M. B. King
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作者：
Edmund M. B. King
大英图书馆的报纸收藏是世界上最好的。位于英国伦敦北部Colindale的报纸库保存着自1800年以来出版的约20英里的英国、殖民地和海外报纸。作者描绘了大英图书馆在过去十几年里的工作，利用当时的技术探索数字化如何为大英图书馆的部分报纸馆藏提供更多的访问。自2000年以来，软件和硬件的发展已经加快，并且已经完成了小规模的项目，以证明使用软件访问互联网文本的概念，这些软件可以提高文本的可读性，也可以搜索所有文本，并立即向用户提供结果。目前，图书馆正在进行一项扫描多达200万页19世纪报纸的大型项目，其计划正在向更大的规模迈进，以提供更广泛的报纸馆藏。
ABSTRACT The newspaper collections of the British Library are among the world's finest. The repository at Colindale, North London, UK, holds some 20 miles of UK, Colonial, and overseas newspapers published since 1800. The author charts the work of the British Library over the last dozen years, in using the technology of the time to explore how digitisation can provide greater access to portions of the British Library's newspaper collections. Software and hardware developments have quickened since 2000, and projects have been completed on a small scale to prove the concept of Internet access to texts using software which can enhance readibility of texts, and also can search all of the texts, with results immediately available to users. In currently undertaking a large project to scan up to 2 million pages of nineteenth century newspapers, the Library is moving to a larger level of scale in its programme to provide wider access to its newspaper collections.