[Wactclc-alma] Newspaper digitization recommendations?

[Clare Bryant]

Thanks, Kirsti! I gave them a call, and they put me in touch with the
Washington
Digital Newspapers Coordinator
<https://washingtondigitalnewspapers.org/?a=p&p=about&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-college------>
at Washington State Library to find out more. It sounds like a couple of
other colleges have recently been in contact about digitizing their student
newspapers, too.

-Clare

On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 12:29 PM Thomas, Kirsti <
Kirsti.Thomas at seattlecolleges.edu> wrote:

> Clare,
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> I immediately thought of the Archives Dept. at Washington State Library as
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> Digging through the website, I found out there's an Imaging &
> Preservation Service
> <https://www.sos.wa.gov/archives/imaging_digitize.aspx> that can perform
> scanning of paper materials. Page says:
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> "For pricing information please contact Imaging and Preservation Services
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> They may also have recommendations for OCR (optical character recognition)
> and recommendations to find grant funding for OCR. You'll need to translate
> the scanned image to text so everything is accessible for screenreaders.
> Getting accessible text that's not full of errors out of the scanning
> project may be the most complicated part.
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> It will be ok!
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> Kirsti S. Thomas (Hear my first name <http://namedrop.io/kirstithomas>)
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> Library Technical Services Manager & Systems Librarian
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> Seattle Colleges
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> *From:* Wactclc-alma <wactclc-alma-bounces at lists.ctc.edu> *On Behalf Of *Clare
> Bryant
> *Sent:* Monday, May 15, 2023 15:01
> *To:* WACTCLC Alma Discussion <wactclc-alma at lists.ctc.edu>
> *Subject:* [Wactclc-alma] Newspaper digitization recommendations?
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> Hi all,
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> Edmonds College has a print collection of student newspapers, and I'm
> researching options for digitizing and creating an institutional repository
> for them. If any of you have undertaken a project like this, did you work
> with an outside vendor for the digitization/scanning piece? And if so, do
> you have any recommendations for companies that can provide this type of
> service? I can look around on my own, but I figured I'd ask the group first
> to avoid reinventing the wheel here! Beyond that, what type of software did
> you use to create your collection? ContentDm? Omeka? Something else?
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> Any general words of wisdom (or caution) would be much appreciated.
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> Clare
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> *Clare Bryant*
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> Associate Director of Collection Services and Library Systems
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> Edmonds College Library
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