[Wikisource-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] National Digital Newspaper Program beta

[John Vandenberg]

Hi everyone,

This may be of interest to the Wikisource project.

On a search for "metcalfe", six results came back, including
references to the American "metcalf". Here is one as an image:

http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/ndnp:757000/display.html?n=2&scope=fulltext&pageNum=1&currentSort=&mode=list

They also provide the OCR'd text:

http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/ocrData.html?pagePid=ndnp:757000&omniturescript=http://www.loc.gov/global/s_code.js

There are also about six that mention Mark Twain; I have uploaded one:
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_San_Francisco_Call/Mark_Twain_Called_by_Death

--
John

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Date: Jun 22, 2007 7:21 AM
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Awesome. Perhaps we even could adopt a WikiProject for this.

-Salaskan

2007/6/20, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
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> From: Jonathan Leybovich <jleybov at yahoo.com>
> Date: 19-Jun-2007 19:48
> Subject: [Foundation-l] National Digital Newspaper Program beta
> To: foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org, wikipedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org
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>
> All,
>
> The Library of Congress and the National Endowment for
> the Humanities have announced the beta web interface
> for the National Digital Newspaper Program, intended
> to digitize and make freely available the contents of
> most historic major U.S. newspapers:
>
> http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/
> http://www.neh.gov/projects/ndnp.html
>
> Currently only the contents of newspapers from a
> select few states during the period 1900-1910 are
> available, but eventually the project will encompass
> all U.S. regions and the entire period 1836 to 1922.
>
> The Library of Congress does not seem to place any
> legal restrictions on the use of these archives for
> educational purposes (though it does not guarantee
> that other copyright holders might not have claims)
> and I think even the current, limited contents of the
> archive will be immediately valuable for reference and
> illustrative purposes within Wikipedia.
>