Sheila Rabun
Community and Communications Officer
International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF)
Karen Estlund
Associate Dean for Technology and Digital Strategies
Pennsylvania State University
Mark Phillips
Associate Dean for Digital Libraries
University of North Texas
At the August 2016 the International Federation of Library Associations News Media satellite meeting, Patrick Fleming, Director of Development at the British Library, acknowledged the increasingly important role that “hyperlocal” newspapers play in local community identity in conjunction with the responsibility of libraries in preserving and providing access to community history as revealed in these papers. As newspaper digitization and born-digital news preservation initiatives grow, libraries are increasingly obligated to both provide access to news content and to digitally preserve it, while improving cost and ease of collection maintenance and sustaining a positive end-user experience for newspaper-based research. Considerations in access and preservation infrastructure, software platforms and feature development, usability, and digital sustainability pose added challenges to the maintenance and delivery of digital newspaper collections. Multi-institutional software development efforts such as the Open Online Newspaper Initiative (Open ONI), collaborative grant-funded initiatives, and adoption of the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) specifications for newspapers have laid the groundwork for libraries to go further together to ensure a manageable level of collection sustainability and improved user experience without accruing the technical debt that often comes with bespoke solutions. This panel will reflect on the latest efforts toward improving the digital delivery of “hyperlocal” news in libraries, followed by open discussion, with a focus on multi-institutional collaborations, leveraging existing platforms and resources, and interoperability via IIIF for digital newspapers.
https://texashistory.unt.edu/explore/collections/TDNP/
https://github.com/open-oni
http://iiif.io/http://iiif.io/community/groups/newspapers/
https://github.com/IIIF/awesome-iiif
https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/hydra/Hydra+Newspapers+Interest+Group
https://www.loc.gov/ndnp/
http://newspapers.library.wales/