Scope & Objectives

The Newspapers Interest Group is a forum for discussing ingest, management, and dissemination of digital newspaper content within Samvera- and Fedora-based systems.

Topics of interest may include:

• data modeling in Samvera/Fedora

• METS-ALTO
  
• batch ingest
• migration from other systems
  
• volume, issue, page, and article-level object modeling and metadata
• IIIF compatibility
• community-supported OCR contribution/correction
  

• content segmentation

• UX for newspaper content (discovery, display, etc.)
• compatibility with other Fedora-based systems
  

Potential group activities:

• developing a requirements list for newspaper-content management systems

• evaluating newspaper modeling from other systems/schemas

• representing METS-ALTO in Fedora/Solr

• modeling newspaper content in PCDM

• modeling technical, administrative, or descriptive metadata in RDF

• identifying best practices for newspaper content management

• providing input on development roadmaps for newspaper-related Hydra projects
• ensuring that projects meet the newspaper-related needs of the Hydra community
  

Meeting Times and Communication Channels

Time/Date: Every two months, on 1st Thursday of the month. 1:00 PM (EST)

First meeting: Thursday December 1, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (EST)

We will use the samvera-community@googlegroups.com channel for cross-community communications. The subject line of a message posted to this channel shall be preceded by "[Newspapers IG]" in square brackets. 

Members 
 

If you wish to receive invites to meetings (calls, online, etc.) please add your name below:

• Eben English (Boston Public Library)
• Brian McBride (University of Utah)
• Michael Friscia (Yale University)
• Joshua Allan Westgard (University of Maryland)
• Jon Stroop (Princeton University)
• drew heles (Johns Hopkins University)
• Jordon Steele (Johns Hopkins University)
• Clifford Wulfman (Princeton University)
• Betsy Post (Boston College)
• Jenn Colt(Cornell University)
• pbinkley (University of Alberta)
• stefan (Veridian) 
• Gordon Leacock (University of Michigan)
• mak (University of Georgia)
• Roger Roberto Espinosa (University of Michigan)
• Yoo Young Lee (IUPUI)
• harish
• Sean Upton
• Andy Smith (IUPUI)
• nhomenda (Indiana University Bloomington)