NDNP Poster for the Genealogy Fair in Las Vegas, NV (June 2017)
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This poster was designed to provide quick overview of the Nevada Digital Newspaper Project for the Genealogy Fair in Las Vegas, NV (June 2017). It summarizes the newspaper titles selected for digitization, some facts about the project and some fun facts from the backstage which demonstrate the complexity of the project.
NDNP Poster for the Genealogy Fair in Las Vegas, NV (June 2017)
- 1. www.nvdnp.wordpress.com Digitized newspapers Carson Daily Appeal Ely Record Tonopah Bonanza Currently digitizing Elko Independent Eureka Sentinel Goldfield News Gold Hill Daily News Central Nevadan Fallon Standard Gardnerville Record Lovelock Tribune Lyon County Times The Silver State Wadsworth Dispatch Walker Lake Bulletin Coming next QUICK FACTS Contributing to the largest free online newspaper repository www.chronliclingamerica.loc.gov www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov Nevada titles carefully selected for digitization based on: Quality OCR ensures efficient search in thousands of historic pages! Multiple applications:  Genealogy research  K-12 learning activities  Student assignments  Nevada history research  Entertainment: Nevada perspective of historic events Principle investigators Jason Vaughan | Cory Lampert Project staff Marina Georgieva | Oscar Giurcovich  historical significance  research value  image quality  geographic representation  diversity 102,577 historic newspaper pages from Nevada available online! 100,000 more pages coming up by August 2018!  Collation: 1,200 pages = 2 days  Digitization: 10,000 pages = 2 months  Project goal: 100,000 pages = 10 batches  10 batches = 18 months  1 batch ≈ 600GB  Quality review: using 2 different software tools ensures high quality product for Chronicling America users  Data transfer: fastest way to trans- fer this much data is on hard drives Digitized newspapers back up:  Library of Congress archives the physical microfilm reels  Life-expectancy of silver- coated microfilm reels is 500 years! Partnership between