1. Colin Potter and Caroline Foxon – Sunshine Coast Regional Library Service www.nambour-chronicle.com

2. The project  Full electronic version of the newspaper 1903-1955  OCR scanned from microfilm  Automatically indexed via OCR process from microfilm  Fully searchable by any-word and date and page  3 Outputs –searchable PDF bi-tonal for web view –TIFF bi-tonal for preservation –Grey scale JPEG for publication quality prints created in-house  Delivery mechanism- via the WWW or in-house via hard-disk drive/DVD  Fully searchable by any word within web interface  Displays on web in PDF format

3. Significance of the Nambour Chronicle  Not only a local paper It was THE paper for the Sunshine Coast Region from 1903  For 80 years it recorded and photographed: - local news – locality correspondents - social, sporting and business activities - local opinions and notices  A record of the growth & development of Sunshine Coast over those significant years.  A complete newspaper run  Not just local news used same sources as major newspapers for international stories  Ceased publication 1983 - superseded by the Sunshine Coast Daily

4. Environment Drivers Increased demand for web based access The need to preserve the paper in more then one format Increased demand for heritage/family history services Microfilm reader restrictive and challenging Opportunity Existing staff expertise from Libraries – tech/heritage Technological expertise of vendors Existing strong partnerships Increased interest in Heritage and family history- funding $ Availability of full master set of microfilms Maturity of technology

5. Power of partnerships All partners had specialist roles within the project and contributed based on their own levels of expertise and knowledge. Without partners this service would not be available today.  Maroochy Shire Council*- funding and staff resources- technology and heritage  Caloundra City Council*-Funding and staff resources  State Library of Queensland- Initial pilot study and feasibility  Micrographic Applications- scanning and OCR conversion process/outputs and web page interface design and hosting  Sunshine Coast Daily- permission to reproduce the newspaper and media support  *Now Sunshine Coast Libraries

6. Scope Study  Feasibility report for the Maroochy Libraries Service and Caloundra Libraries by the State Library of Queensland. covered:  Copyright  Capture Standards  File naming and directory structure  Storage of TIFF files  Recommended Image Derivatives  Use of the printed Nambour Chronicle Index  Format and layout of Metadata records  Web Site role and functionality  Indicative Costing for Scanning A very informative document which gave us a “go forward" and also gave the State Library of Queensland a stake and vested interest in the support of the project

7. Feasibility testing at the State Library of Queensland

8. Project stages Stage 1 (2005/6) Scope study State Library of Queensland commissioned report Stage 2 (2006) Digitisation commenced by Micrographic Applications in Brisbane Stage 3 (November 2006) Access to the newspaper from 1903 to 1955 on computer in the Heritage Library at Nambour & Caloundra Library & SLQ. Stage 4 (2007) Investigation into making the digital Nambour Chronicle available via the WWW Stage 5 (January 2008) launch of the web-access version of the Digital Nambour Chronicle The first full Australian newspaper scanned from mirofilm and made retrospectively available in full text on the WWW

9. Access vs. preservation  Microfilm is the preferred preservation option- it has stood the test of time and can be converted digitally and photographically into a number of formats. Our microfilm master is held by the State Library of Queensland  We are not using digital formats as the only preservation measure we created high quality archival standard bi-tonal TIFFS as a backup for the digital web product  The digital format is primarily for access- we used PDF bi- Tonals for web access as we wanted to minimise downloaded file sizes  There are a number of initiatives to create standards for scanning and formats for digital projects. We decided not to wait for these as we wanted to provide the service in a timely way using the equilibrium that had developed in the organisation.

10. Statistics from January 2008 Usage and registration has been better than expected for the past year.  54.5 Gigabytes downloaded  Over 1,380 registered users  11,530 visits  1,030,828 files downloaded Registered users are scattered across the Globe! Registered users 1Netherlands 1Latvia 1France 1Brazil 1Bermuda 2Italy 2Ireland 2Hong Kong 2Finland 3Germany 4England 7Canada 16New Zealand 1259Australia

11. “Browse by dates” – must select year, month & day 19/1/1940 User Registered Searching

12. How to search Searchable via : -Keyword -Year ranges -Month ranges -Day ranges -Page ranges -Boolean -Browsing facility

13. All issues – can also select a year range Click here to see page Keyword search

14. Selected search result from “car accidents” 9 Sept 1927, page 5

15. Finding aids - Indexes Finding aids - Indexes Indexes

16. Outputs Outputs JPEG Thumbnails Full PDF images- Printable from web view Good quality -High density jpeg images for publication purposes held in-house Downloads directly to the users computer

17. Display of full page Scroll down for full view

18. Print facility 1. Click on Snapshot icon 2. Outline item 3. Click OK 4. Click on Print icon - follow prompts

19. Print of selected item Print of selected item

20. Browse by year Browse by year

21. Browse by month

22. By day – 8/1/54

23. Fashion – shoes 25 th November 1921, p.3

25. 24 July 1936, p.3

26. 1 November 1935, p.3

27. The War at Home 12/10/1945, p.7

28. 12 th October 1945 p10 The War on the Land

29. 11 th November 1955 p20

30. 7 August 1953, p.3

31. 1 st July 1955 p6 Other inventions

32. Some not so good…… 3 rd January 1936 p10

33. The first supermarket

34. National & International News 3 rd January 1936 p1

35. 30 October 1931, p. 10

36. Royal Family – “calm before the storm”

37. Only 3 months later …. 27/10/1939, p.12

39. First electronic scam-not Nigerian! 6 th August 1915 p3

40. Awards and recognition www.nambour-chronicle.com Colin.potter@sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au