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Saskatchewan News Index Saskatchewan Library Association May 5, 2000 Moose Jaw, SK 1883 to 1998 In the Beginning Started in 1992 conversion of electronic indexes (1987-1992) proof of concept - OCR of 1997 print volume of the Star Phoenix index loaded to Bucat and accessible to anyone on the Internet by telnet The Partners Libraries/Organizations Saskatoon Public Library Provincial Library Regina Public Library Legislative Library of Saskatchewan Saskatchewan Archives Board Saskatchewan Library Association Digitizing the Content Digital Collections program, 1996 (1980’s, part of the 1970’s Digital Collections program, 1997 (1880’s-1940’s) 1997 library staff also helped with digitization Digital Collections program, 1998 (1930’s to 1960’s Young Canada Works, 1998, support of indexing Database Server 1992 - wrote loader programs, telnet version 1992 - parsed OCRed text 1995 - offered first Web version. 1995 - migration from Bucat to mSQL. ~200,000 citations and mSQL was struggling Database Server 1996 - Investigation of free tools 1996 - Bestseller, interim solution. 1998 - Migration to SiteSearch (90% of the indices are digitized) 1999 - Complete digitization, some special indexes left The Challenges: Content Copyright clearance multiple authors Quality of the Indexes illegible even to the human eye Nature heterogeneous, highly irregular, multiple authors, various local practices evolution of newspapers themselves “article??” Challenges Data Mapping convergence of more than 10 files using various conventions. Within these files there can be inconsistencies. Consistency training and the development of rules across teams accuracy and high quality The Results Before Only a few libraries even had the print indexes Saskatchewan newspapers were NOT indexed in any published news index After Search from any where that has a computer with an Internet connection Search for newspaper articles in one place at one time from 1883 - 1998 Future D