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Innovation is always top of mind in the DL Consulting offices.  Here is something we have been thinking about and we would like to know if anyone else has considered this.  We suspect that crowdsourcing the process of article assembly could be a ... [More] realistic pathway to creating state-of-the-art data out of old, historical newspaper collections. So, what is article assembly, [...] [Less]

Digital media has only been around for the past 40 or so years which may seem like a long time to some, but relatively speaking, it’s just a blip in the history of the written word.  Since the first scene was painted on a cave wall people have been either deliberately or unintentionally recording history.  Looking back through the past, [...]

At DL Consulting we created Veridian software to deliver historic newspaper collections online.  Did you know Veridian can also display collections of images?  We have developed a simple solution for uploading images to Veridian without going through ... [More] the OCR process.  This process presents an easy and cost effective way to create an online collection of your valuable images. If a [...] [Less]

As more and more libraries digitize their newspaper collections a world of historical content suddenly becomes available to anyone with an Internet connection.  The trouble is Internet search engines produce pages of results from disparate entities ... [More] that are cumbersome and time consuming to sort through.  That’s why DL Consulting created Elephind.com.  What search engines like Google and Bing can do [...] [Less]

Preserving the information of the past and making it accessible to the public are two of the many benefits of digitizing historic newspaper collections. The Library of Congress, Chronicling America, California Digital Newspaper Collection, Papers ... [More] Past, the National Library of Australia, the Trove project and a growing number of institutions both large and small have essentially opened the virtual door [...] [Less]

Cornell University Library has partnered with the Cornell Daily Sun, the University’s independent daily newspaper to create the Cornell Daily Sun Keith R. Johnson ’56 Digital Archive. The project intends to digitize and deliver the entire collection ... [More] of the Daily Sun’s publications, dating back to 1880. To date, most of the archive is in fact... Read more [Less]

The African Building Capacity Foundation is a 20 year old organization dedicated to helping Africa increase its recognition for its socio-political and economic capabilities and endowments. It supports and promotes national control, local knowledge ... [More] and broad based participation in solving the continents challenges. As such, it maintains a collection of digital resources including books, papers,... Read more [Less]

Upper Hutt City is a community of roughly 38,000 people located 25 minutes north of Wellington New Zealand. In 1996, with the help of the New Zealand Lotteries Grants Board and the Rotary Club, the city library created the Upper Hutt City Historical ... [More] Archive. Part of this digitization project included digitizing the historical issues of... Read more [Less]

Like many university libraries, the University of Richmond’s Digital Initiatives department has been busy digitizing and extracting text from the independent weekly newspaper published by the students of the University of Richmond. The Collegian ... [More] Newspaper Archive contains over 2,600 issues comprising over 26,000 pages dating back to 1914. The collection is digitized to article level... Read more [Less]

The Daily Princetonian is the independent student newspaper for Princeton University. Beginning in 1876, it began publishing daily in 1892. The Larry DuPraz digital archive is an online collection of the newspaper’s publications between 1876 and ... [More] 2002. It comprises 22,605 issues totaling over 141,000 pages, and is one of the largest historical student newspaper collections... Read more [Less]