Historical newspapers in the context of Digital Library of Slovenia

Historical newspapers in the context of Digital Library of Slovenia

Zoran Krstulović

Europeana Newspaper WorkshopAmsterdam, September 16th, 2013

Historical Newspapers’ DigitizationCurrent state of digitization:• most of the historical newspapers have been

digitized;• among them all Slovenian newspapers and

journals important for history and culture;• all German language newspapers published on

the Slovenian territory;• more than 600.000 objects.

Challenges

• placement of newspapers in the context of a whole digital library;

• articles vs. issues;• full text search through all text materials:– limitation of the large number of results,– filters,– provide to user the results of full text search as

immediate answer;• inflected language;• old alphabets (Metelko alphabet, etc.).

Historical newspapers’ accessibility inside the digital library

Articles versus issues

issue

article

Users don’t prefer only the articles without the content of a particular issue.

Full text search

marked full text search results

Declination, old words, old alphabetsthe sun

soncealso: sonca, sonce, soncu, sončni, soncem, soncom, soncema, sonci, soncih, …

Older forms: solnce, sonze, solnzealso: solnca, solncem, solncih, solncu, sonza, sonzu, sunzam, sunze, ſolnza, ſolnze, ſolnzi, ſolnzu, ſonza, ſonzam, ſonze, ſonzi, ſonzu, ſónza, ſónze…

Thank you for your attention!

zoran.krstulovic@nuk.uni-lj.si