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