UPDATED: Blog Talk Live: What is the Nebraska Digital Newspaper Project?

In the next Blog Talk Live you'll meet Katherine L. Walter, who co-directs the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) Center for Digital Research in the Humanities and is professor and chair of Digital Initiatives & Special Collections in the UNL Libraries.  

From 1992-2000, Walter was principal investigator of the Nebraska Newspaper Project, a U.S. Newspaper Program project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation & Access.  In collaboration with the Nebraska State Historical Society, the project team cataloged over 3,500 newspaper titles and preserved 300,000 pages of newspapers on preservation microfilm.

Now, Walter is heading the Nebraska Digital Newspaper Project, with participants from the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, the UNL Libraries, the UNL College of Journalism and Mass Communication, and the Nebraska State Historical Society.  The project is part of a national effort to digitize selected, historically- significant newspapers in each state.   From 2007-2009, the project team sent 100,000 pages of digitized newspapers to the Library of Congress for inclusion in the Chronicling America database where images and metadata from participating states are being collected and made freely available on the web.  Recently, Walter and her team received funding to digitize another 100,000 pages.

For information on the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, see http://cdrh.unl.edu.

For information on Chronicling America, see http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica.

Audio for this program is provided below in two parts:

BTL_KLWALTER_05JAN10_Part1 27:07

BTL_KLWALTER_05JAN10_Part2 24:02

Blog Talk Live airs every Tuesday from 6-7pm on KZUM 89.3 FM, on the web at kzum.org, and now on KZUM-HD.