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Large quantities of historical newspapers are being digitized and OCRd. We describe a framework for processing the OCRd text to identify articles and extract metadata for them. We describe the article schema and provide examples of features that facilitate automatic indexing of them. For this processing, we employ lexical semantics, structural models, and community content. Furthermore, we describe visualization and summarization techniques that can be used to present the extracted events.

Der Schwerpunkt der Arbeiten von CARMEN liegt auf der Weiterentwicklung der Inhaltserschließung durch neue Verfahrenstechniken mit starken Verbindungen zum Retrieval.

The National Library of Australia, in collaboration the Australian State and Territory libraries, has commenced a program to digitise out of copyright newspapers.

The National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC), is a long-term effort to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of all U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages. Supported by NEH, this rich digital resource will be developed and permanently maintained at the Library of Congress. An NEH grant program will fund the contribution of content from, eventually, all U.S. states and territories.

The METAe Engine - marketed by CCS GmbH. under the brand name docWorks/METAe Edition is a innovative, effective and user-friendly software which understands the structure and layout of documents and translates it into reach XML files. METAe dramatically eases the digitisation process of printed material especially from the 19th and 20th century.