[wactclc-alma] [Wactclc-alma] [EXTERNAL] - Re: Newspaper digitization recommendations?

Tue May 30 13:13:43 PDT 2023

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From: Wactclc-alma <wactclc-alma-bounces at lists.ctc.edu> On Behalf Of Herman, Amy
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Please keep us posted!  We have “digitizing student newspapers” on a far away task list but would love to continue to hear what others are doing…

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From: Wactclc-alma <wactclc-alma-bounces at lists.ctc.edu> On Behalf Of Clare Bryant
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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<mailto:Kirsti.Thomas at seattlecolleges.edu>> wrote:
Clare,

I immediately thought of the Archives Dept. at Washington State Library as a possible source of info and advice.

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:

"For pricing information please contact Imaging and Preservation Services at (360) 586-0108"

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.

It will be ok!

Kirsti S. Thomas (Hear my first name<http://namedrop.io/kirstithomas>)
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Seattle Colleges
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From: Wactclc-alma <wactclc-alma-bounces at lists.ctc.edu<mailto:wactclc-alma-bounces at lists.ctc.edu>> On Behalf Of Clare Bryant
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Subject: [Wactclc-alma] Newspaper digitization recommendations?

Hi all,

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?

Any general words of wisdom (or caution) would be much appreciated.

Clare

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