Professional paper
Digitisation and preservation of the historical istrian newspapers on the internet: the pilot project of the istrian newspapers online of the University Library Pula
Bruno Dobrić
Abstract
The regional collection Histrica of the University Library Pula contains library material of multicultural and multilingual significance for the Istrian region. In 2005 the Library started to digitise historical regional newspapers belonging to this collection with a purpose to preserve them. With the pilot project entitled “Istrian newspapers online”, which began in 2007, the Library made available some of these newspapers, one weekly and three daily newspapers, about 30000 pages in total. The newspapers were published between 1870 and 1938. These sources include newspapers in three languages: Croatian, German, and Italian. The first part of the paper presents the regional collection Histrica of the University Library Pula, particularly its newspapers collection. Furthermore, it reconsiders the reasons and goals of the digitisation of the historical newspapers. It also presents the pilot project Istrian newspapers online (INO) as well as the results and future plans of the project.
Keywords
digitisation of historical newspapers; Na{a sloga; Hrvatski list; Polaer Tagblatt; Corriere istriano; Regional Collection Histrica of the University Library Pula, Istrian newspapers online
Hrčak ID:
85652
URI
Publication date:
3.2.2010.
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