A group of 17 European partner institutions have joined forces in the “A Gateway to European Newspapers Online” project and will, over the next 3 years, provide more than 10 million newspaper pages to the EUROPEANA service.

The European Newspapers project (funded under ECs CIP 2007 - 2013) aims at the aggregation and refinement of digitized newspapers for The European Library and Europeana. In addition, the project addresses challenges particularly linked with digitized newspapers:

• use of refinement methods for OCR, OLR/article segmentation, named entity recognition (NER) and page class recognition to enhance search and presentation functionalities for Europeana customers,
• quality evaluation for automatic refinement technologies,
• transformation of local metadata to the Europeana Data Model (EDM)
• metadata standardization in close collaboration with stakeholders from the public and private sector.

Each library participating in the project will distribute digitized newspapers and full-texts free of any legal restrictions to Europeana. There will be a special focus on newspapers published during the First World War, thus providing a meaningful addition to the resources aggregated by the current Europeana Collections 1914-1918 project.
The Provincial Library „Dr. Friedrich Teßmann“ is glad to provide a selection of its stock of more than 1,5 million digitised newspaper pages to this outstanding project.

The kick-off meeting of all project partners took place on 1st and 2nd March 2012 in Berlin, hosted by the project leader - The Berlin State Library.

Project partners:
1. Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz (project coordinator)
2. National Library of the Netherlands
3. National Library of Estonia
4. Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
5. National Library of Finland
6. Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg
7. Bibliothèque nationale de France
8. National Library of Poland
9. University of Salford
10. CCS Content Conversion Specialists GmbH
11. Stichting LIBER
12. National Library of Latvia
13. National Library of Turkey
14. University Library of Belgrade
15. University of Innsbruck
16. Landesbibliothek Dr. Friedrich Teßmann, Italy
17. The British Library

Find more information on http://www.european-newspapers.eu/

Contact (Prov. Library Teßmann):
Karin Pircher karin.pircher@tessmann.it