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Not sure if this has been reported here yet, but just in case... This article is copied from the Newspapers & Technology website:
Knight Ridder project bringing old pages to life
Inquirer Civil War Archive to be made available this fall
By Marcelo Duran
Associate Editor
The Civil War-era archives of The Philadelphia Inquirer will be made publicly available this fall following a showcase digitization project backed by Knight Ridder Digital and Olive Software Inc.
The electronic archives will contain The Inquirer’s wartime reporting from 1860 to 1865, according to Ken Doctor, vice president for content services at Knight Ridder Digital.
The project is the first of a wave of digitization endeavors KRD plans to undertake among Knight Ridder newspapers.
When The Inquirer’s archive conversion is complete, users will be able to perform keyword searches of more than 12,500 newspaper pages chronicling the United States’ bloodiest conflict.
In addition to coverage of the Gettysburg Address, the newspaper’s reporting included eyewitness accounts from the battlefields.
Microfilm storing pages from 1860 to 1865 was digitized with Olive’s PipeX microfilm digitization process, which will let readers view, search and print articles and photos as they appeared 144 years ago. PipeX is used in conjunction with Olive’s ActivePaper archiving app to preserve all the elements of a newspaper’s page into one XML repository, which can be easily accessed by standard Web browsing software.
Doctor declined to disclose the digitization project’s costs.
Knight Ridder project bringing old pages to life
Inquirer Civil War Archive to be made available this fall
By Marcelo Duran
Associate Editor
The Civil War-era archives of The Philadelphia Inquirer will be made publicly available this fall following a showcase digitization project backed by Knight Ridder Digital and Olive Software Inc.
The electronic archives will contain The Inquirer’s wartime reporting from 1860 to 1865, according to Ken Doctor, vice president for content services at Knight Ridder Digital.
The project is the first of a wave of digitization endeavors KRD plans to undertake among Knight Ridder newspapers.
When The Inquirer’s archive conversion is complete, users will be able to perform keyword searches of more than 12,500 newspaper pages chronicling the United States’ bloodiest conflict.
In addition to coverage of the Gettysburg Address, the newspaper’s reporting included eyewitness accounts from the battlefields.
Microfilm storing pages from 1860 to 1865 was digitized with Olive’s PipeX microfilm digitization process, which will let readers view, search and print articles and photos as they appeared 144 years ago. PipeX is used in conjunction with Olive’s ActivePaper archiving app to preserve all the elements of a newspaper’s page into one XML repository, which can be easily accessed by standard Web browsing software.
Doctor declined to disclose the digitization project’s costs.
Hopefully they won't charge for the 61-65 articles.
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