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apologies for any cross-posting > 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 > > 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. > ([log in to unmask])