[English] Aussie Newspapers Digitisation Program

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program

National Library of Australia  12th October 2009 

 http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home


This is a free online service that enables full-text searching of 
newspaper articles. The service includes newspapers published in each 
state and territory from the 1800s to the mid-1950s, when copyright 
applies. 

The first Australian newspaper, published in Sydney in 1803, is included 
in the service. By 2010 the service will comprise 40 million searchable 
articles.

The National Library of Australia, in collaboration the Australian State
and Territory libraries, began a program in March 2007 to digitise out of 
copyright newspapers.

In July 2008 the Australian Newspapers was released to the public.

Improvement of Digital Content by Users 

Users have corrected over 3.4 million lines of electronic text in over 
150,000 articles. Over 70,000 tags have been added to articles and many 
comments about information in articles added. This is fantastic community 
activity which is improving the content for everyone.

More information about the development of the project can be found here

 http://www.nla.gov.au/ndp/index.html

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Cheers people
Stephen Loosley
Member, Victorian
Institute of Teaching