> 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.
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> 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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