Launch of Welsh Newspapers

Onlinehttp://welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk/

Alastair DunningThe European Library

13th March, Cardiff

The European Library (http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org

) acts as central index point for library’s materials from throughout

Europe

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

Europeana Newspapers

project is creating an index of 18m

pages that point to library’s newspaper

webpages

Why share with Europe?

New international contexts and

research questions

Exposure of Welsh language

Exposure of Welsh ideas / thinking / history

Recognition of LLGC / NLW identity

Potential to work with others to enrich the data

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