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let me know.
ALL FREE OF CHARGE.
> OCLC presents historic newspaper digitisation workshop
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> All the News That's Fit to Scan: Increasing Access to
> Historic Newspapers
> Wednesday, December 5, 2001
> 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. (Continental breakfast begins at 8 a.m.)
> Hilton National London Olympia Hotel
> Kensington High Street, London W14
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> Over the last year there has been much public debate about
> the fate of historic newspapers. This workshop will describe and
> demonstrate how Olive Software's ActivePaper Archive(tm) was used to
> process and create an XML repository of digital files of nearly 500,000
> articles and other items that had been scanned from British Library
> Newspaper Library microfilm by OCLC Preservation Resources. The resulting
> search capabilities open up extraordinary and affordable solutions to the
> problems of preserving and increasing access to historic newspaper content
> for libraries, archives and scholars. Speakers will include Marilyn
> Deegan, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford; Ed King, British
> Library Newspaper Project; Robert Harriman, Library of Congress; and
> representatives from Olive Software.
>
> The workshop is being presented in conjunction with the
> Online Information conference, but you are welcome to attend the workshop
> if you are not planning to attend the conference. The workshop is
> supported in part by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC).
>
> Please register to attend this event.
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