1. Europeana Newspapers
17 September 2013 – Amsterdam – Morning Edition
Published by Alastair Dunning, The European Library

2. On 15th April 1912, the passenger ship
Titanic, carrying over 2000 passengers
and crew, crashed into an iceberg on
its maiden voyage from Southampton
to New York

3. Responses to the Titanic Disaster

4. Responses to the Titanic Disaster

5. Responses to the Titanic Disaster

6. Responses to the Titanic Disaster

7. Responses to the Titanic Disaster

8. News travels at
different speeds,
with importance
that diminishes at
different rates.
This is true now
as is was in 1912.
(though the web changes things …)

9. The Europeana Newspapers
project is making this kind of
investigation easier, in several
ways

10. 1. By creating full text for 8m pages

11. 2. By undertaking article
segmentation for 2m pages

12. 3. By undertaking named entity
extraction for 2m pages

13. 4. By developing a crosssearchable newspapers browser at
The European Library
(with metadata forwarded to
Europeana)

14. Europeana Newspapers - Partners
Blue– Providing
Content
Yellow –Providing
Technical Services
Green – Associate
Partners
https://maps.google.nl/maps/ms?msid=217164746645697066594.0004c3d764fcb71ed2314&msa=0&ll=52.589701,11.777344&spn=42.275511,114.169922

15. Timetable for rest of project
Now - Test version of interface shared with project yesterday
Throughout 2014 - Ongoing creation of OCR, and other
related technical work (OLR, Named Entities)
Throughout 2014 – Live version of website improved /
usability testing
Late 2014 - Final project conference
Late 2014 - Newspaper browser completed with content and
tools from project
More information at
http://www.europeana-newspapers.eu/