A newspaper/periodical digitization project in Mongolia: Creating a digital archive of rare Mongolian publications

Serials Librarian

Volumn 57, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 118-127

  Matusiak, Krystyna K ^a   Munkhmandakh, Myagmar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b Press Institute of Mongolia   (Mongolia)

Author keywords

Digital archive of Mongolian newspapers; Digitization; Endangered Archive Programme; Greenstone; International digital library; Language support; Mongolian newspapers; Mongolian periodicals; Non Latin characters; Press Institute of Mongolia

Indexed keywords

EID: 73649086936     PISSN: 0361526X     EISSN: 15411095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03615260802669136     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Edward King, "Digitization of Newspapers at the British Library," The Serials Librarian 49, no. 1/2 (2005): 170;
2. Lynda James Gilboe, "The Challenge of Digitization: Libraries Are Finding that Newspaper Projects Are not for the Faint of Heart," The Serials Librarian 49, no. 1/2 (2005): 159.
3. Alison Jones, "The Importance of 'Yesterday's News': Opportunities & Challenges in Newspaper Digitization." Technical Report for IMLS Project - "The Richmond Daily Dispatch," 2004: 3. http://dlxs. richmond.edu/d/ddr/docs/papers/yesterdaysnews.pdf (accessed March 29, 2008);
4. King, "Digitization of Newspapers at the British Library," 168.
5. Morris Rossabi, Modern Mongolia: From Khans to Commissars to Capitalists (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005), 192.
6. Ibid., 193.
7. For more information about the project and the award see the Endangered Archive Programme website. http://www.bl.uk/about/policies/endangeredarch/ bayarmaa.html (accessed March 30, 2008).
8. Edwin Klijn, "The Current State-of-Art in Newspaper Digitization: A Market Perspective," D-Lib Magazine 14, no. 1/2 (2008). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january08/klijn/01klijn.html (accessed April 2, 2008).
9. Ibid.
10. Kenning Arlitsch and John Herbert, "Microfilm, Paper, and OCR: Issues in Newspaper Digitization," Microform and Imaging Review 33, no. 2 (2004), 62.
11. Ibid., 61.
12. Linda Serenson Colet, "Planning an Imaging Project," Guides to Quality in Visual Resource Imaging (Council on Library and Information Resources, 2000). http://www.diglib.org/pubs/dlf091/dlf091.htm#visguide1 (accessed March 4, 2008).
13. The online collection, "Digital Archive of the Mongolian Newspapers 1990-1995" is available at http://www.pressinst.org.mn/cgi-bin/library (accessed April 4, 2008).
14. "UNESCO Saves Rare Archives in Mongolia" (UNESCO, 2008). http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL-ID=26295&URL-DO= DO-TOPIC&URL-SECTION=201.html (accessed March 30, 2008).
15. Brian White, "Concept Paper for a Digital Repository of Inner Asian Area Studies Materials" (2008). http://www.mongoliacenter.org/docs/concept. mongolia.d-repository.pdf (accessed April 4, 2008).