Behind the scenes of the British Library digital newspaper project

Sooraj Shah
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Brightsolid scans historical newspapers for new website

Online publisher Brightsolid has worked with IBM to digitise four million pages of the British Library's historical newspaper collection for online access as part of a 10-year big data analytics project...

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