Helen Aguera, National Endowment for the Humanities 
Mark Sweeney, Library of Congress
National Digitial Newspaper program: enhancing access to America’s newspapers
NEH
Future directions:
- NEH will only be making one award per state, looking for collaborative partnerships
- Projects should
- Have an advisory board
- Represent the diversity of the state
- Will consider “orphan titles”
- Will cover costs for digitization, selection and delivery of information to LC
Preservation:
Guiding Principles:
- Aggregate, serve, and preserve
- Consistent with missions and philosophies of NEH and LC
- Open and perpetual access to the general public and scholarly community
- Take care to preserve the assets the NDNP builds
- Must demonstrate good use of taxpayer $
- System is open
- freely available
- available to use/re-use
- delinking/persistent identification
- etc.
- Practical Concerns
- Out-of-the-box solutions have preservation challenges
- Analyze technical options
- Think carefully about formats
- details specifications
- etc.
- Build on LC Expertise
- Expect to learn from awardees
Mark Sweeney also provided some slides showing what the new UI for the newspapers would look like. For those interested, see below:
- Mark Sweeney: (ppt)