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JISC1 19th Century Digitised Newspapers (BL)

Added by Paul Wheatley · last edited by Paul Wheatley · on May 10, 2012 (view change)

Basic description	1000000+ digitised newspaper pages from the 19th Century. TIFF masters, cropped TIFF service images, ALTO XML and METS XML. Collection sample contains migrated JPEG2000s, some were truncated in a faulty migration process.
Licensing	Sample of approximately 10000 pages available for use under BL licence
Institution	British Library (BL)
Collection expert	Lynne Chivers
List of issues	Quality assurance of a migration from TIFF to JPEG2000 Quality issues may be present in digitised pages Unknown JPEG2000 characteristics presents risks to quality, preservation and access Duplicate images within a collection or job