Three Civil War-Era Newspapers to be Digitized

The IMLS grant funded project brings Tufts, and the Virginia Center for Digital History together with the University to build a digital repository of Civil War-Era newspapers. Not only will this project provide online access to The Liberator, Philadelphia Ledger and the Richmond Dispatch, but it will also provide a unique research opportunity focusing on the the process of digitization and metadata encoding. In addition to the newspapers, it is planned to provide access to a complimentary collections of Richmond related Civil War period resources.

In the collaborative spirit of the National Leadership grant, we have begun monthly conference calls with 2 other IMLS newspaper projects.

The University of Utah, in collaboration with Brigham Young University, will build on an initial collection of three digitized newspapers funded by the Utah State Library with State Library Services and Technology Act funds. This project will expand the collection, distribute the content across four different locations in Utah and aggregate the content into a single, integrated digital collection of historical newspapers.
More information about the Utah Digital Newspapers

The University of Denver, in partnership with the Colorado Digitization Program, Colorado State Library, and Colorado Historical Society will create a 125,000-page newspaper collection from 200 Colorado newspapers that will be available via the Colorado Virtual Library, using Olive software to scan from microform and including online learning modules for K-12 education, and a metadata and indexing system that is based on 19th century natural language.
More information about Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection

Reports and Other Project Information:

Project Description from Grant Proposal

Metadata Tagging Specification Document for Vendor

The Uses of Newspapers

Potential Supporting Resouces for Newspaper Project

More documentation about this project is located under "Reports & Presentations"