Launch of Welsh Newspapers Online
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Launch of Welsh Newspapers Online Alastair Dunning The European Library 13th March, Cardiff
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Historic Newspaper Digitisation in Europe
Around 130,000,000 pages scanned
Just over 29,000 newspaper titles online
Around 85% are freely available
The Welsh Newspapers are in a perfect position to add to this
Creating an index of 18m pages that point to library’s
newspaper webpages
Within a European context a critical a mass of data to help
reach education, creative industries, tourism, research
Openness of content
Strong technical underpinnings – speedy, secure delivery of image & text to user
A focussed collection for education and research
A resource that can expand and exploit other opportunities
The Welsh Newspapers are in a perfect position to add to that