our contact persons

Christian Thomas, Susanne Haaf, Axel Herold (BBAW), Dieter Van Uytvanck

their contact persons

Alastair Dunning (coordination), Nuno Freire (technical, metadata), Antoine Isaac (metadata, LOD)

collaboration

harvesting metadata

• harvest their metadata: an an example selection is available at ​an example selection the alpha version of the VLO
• the CLARIN-D VLO taskforce is checking all available sets to decide which to include
• ​analysis of the sets for harvesting
• ​deliverable on collaboration with a.o. CLARIN
• the BBAW colleages will make a CMDI profile for historical newspapers that The European Library could use

full-text access

• look at use cases with full text OCRed data (see note below)

information from Nuno Freire

Meanwhile, maybe you can have a look at what we have in Github. It contains only one newspaper title, but you can see the metadata available and the fulltext (as plain text files).
https://github.com/nfreire/HistoricalNewspapersCorpus/

Some more notes:
- We will not continue using Github (so don't expect to have the materials available through Git)
- The metadata formats in there are the final available ones: Dublin Core, EDM (Europeana Data Model - a richer format used in the Europeana network)
- If we find the storage capacity, we will make available also the ALTO files, along with the plain text. 

more information

• ​Europeana Research Basecamp page - if interested ask one of our contact persons for an invitation