The Presentation of Hans-Jörg Lieder, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, at the BnF Information Day for Europeana Newspapers (November 2014).

1. Copyright: Olmsted County Historical Society
Europeana Newspapers
…in a nutshell
French Information Day
Hans-Jörg Lieder, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin –
Preußischer Kulturbesitz

2. Facts and Figures
• Europeana Newspapers – EU ICT-PSP Best Practice Network
• Start in February 2012, End in January 2015
• 18 partners, 11 associated partners, 22 networking partners from 28
countries
• Budget: € 5.16M – EC funding: € 4.12M
• Project coordination: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer
Kulturbesitz
This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the
Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community
http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp 2

3. Europeana Newspapers Partners
This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the
Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community
http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp
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Red = Project
Partner
Blue = Associated
Partner
Green = Networking
Partner

4. Image to Text
• 8 million pages OCR
• 2 million pages OLR / article separation
• Named Entity Recognition (NER) in 3 languages
(Dutch, German, French)
• Metadata for >18 million pages in Europeana
• Metadata for >28 million pages in ZDB (Union
• Catalogue of Serials), incl. “born digital” newspapers
This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the
Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community
http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp
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5. Content
20 languages
ca. 950 titles
Country Partner Titel
Startdate
(overall)
Enddate
(overall)
France BnF 80 1814 1944
Germany SBB 6 1872 1940
SUB-HH 16 1721 1945
Netherlands KB 203 1618 1900
Italy LFT 15 1813 1949
Estonia NLE 43 1852 1944
Finland NLF 11 1900 1910
Latvia NLL 117 1868 1955
Poland NLP 118 1914 1939
Turkey NLT 22 1818 1928
Austria ONB 275 1686 1945
Serbia UB 45 1830 1944
This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the
Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community
http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp 5

6. Text search
This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the
Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community
http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp
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7. Navigation by calendar
This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the
Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community
http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp
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8. Geographical browsing
This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the
Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community
http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp
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9. Navigation by title
This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the
Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community
http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp
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10. Presentation in Europeana
This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the
Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community
http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp 10

11. Metadata
• Europeana Newspapers METS/ALTO Profile (ENMAP)
• Contributions to ALTO v2.x, v3.0
• Captioning structural metadata with Structify
This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the
Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community
http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp
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12. Development of software
• Tools for the standard-based creation of images/ conversion
• Tools for quality prediction
• Tools for the analysis of OCR results
This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the
Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community
http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp
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13. Media, News, Events
This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the
Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community
http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp
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14. Where we are
This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the
Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community
http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp
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15. Thank you!
hans-joerg.lieder@sbb.spk-berlin.de
http://www.europeana-newspapers.eu
http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/newspapers
http://www.europeana.eu/