Launch of Welsh Newspapers Online

Short presentation for Launch of Welsh Newspapers Online, 13th March 2013, Cardiff

1. Launch of Welsh
Newspapers Online
http://welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk/
Alastair Dunning
The European Library
13th March, Cardiff

2. The European Library
(http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org) acts as
central index point for library’s materials
from throughout Europe

3. Historic Newspaper Digitisation in Europe

Around 130,000,000 pages scanned

Just over 29,000 newspaper titles online
Around 85% are freely available

4. The Welsh Newspapers are in a perfect
position to add to this
Europeana Newspapers
project is creating an
index of 18m pages that
point to library’s
newspaper webpages

5. Why share with Europe?

7. New international contexts and
research questions

8. Exposure of Welsh language

9. Exposure of Welsh ideas / thinking /
history

10. Recognition of LLGC / NLW identity

11. Potential to work with others to
enrich the data

12. Within a European context a critical a
mass of data to help reach education,
creative industries, tourism, research

13. Openness of content
Strong technical underpinnings – speedy, secure
delivery of image & text to user
A focussed collection for education and research
A resource that can expand and exploit other
opportunities
The Welsh Newspapers are in a perfect position to
add to that