A szolgáltatás e-papíron zajlik, mely a leginkább megközelíti megjelenésében a hagyományos sajtó formát, s mintegy egy hét átfutással válik hozzáférhetővé az állomány az olvasók számára, a korábbi négy hónapnyi mikrofilmes várakozási idő helyett. Sajnos szerzői jogok miatt csak a már említett dedikált hálózaton nyújtott szolgáltatásra van lehetőség. Lásd az alábbi közleményt:
1.5 million pages of digital newspapers in the reading rooms of the German National Library
More than 1.5 million pages of digital newspapers can be accessed in the reading rooms of the German National Library. Approximately 36,500 issues of German e-Papers can be read at the designated work stations in Leipzig and Frankfurt am Main, the locations of the German National Library. And the numbers are growing: the Library collects the daily editions of roughly 300 e-Papers. From Monday to Saturday approximately 1,800 new editions are received by the Library; these are supplemented by the weekly editions of 16 Sunday newspapers.
Newspaper publishers are increasingly producing not only printed editions but also digital versions of the same content featuring the same layout - so-called e-Papers - for their subscribers to access via the Internet. The collection of e-Papers has significantly improved the range which can be accessed by users in Leipzig and Frankfurt am Main: they can now make searches of individual editions of e-papers or access them directly at the click of a mouse from the catalogue. The digital editions are available for use in the reading rooms just one week after publication. This is a significant improvement on the previous provision of newspapers on microfilm which required three to four months processing time. It is not possible to offer the service to external users for copyright reasons. Nor is it possible for users to save an e-Paper, or parts of it, in digital form and take it home - also for copyright reasons.
The German National Library has developed an automatic process in conjunction with a service provider, iSquare GmbH, in Berlin in order to cope with the large amounts of data. This is used to harvest the e-Papers from the publishers' servers and to convert them into a standardised format. The format PDF/A-1b has been selected for this purpose in order to create optimum conditions for long-term preservation. The German National Library then ingests the data into its systems, stores the data on its archive server and records it automatically in its catalogue so that it is then available in the reading room.
Contact: Kathrin Ansorge, k.ansorge@dnb.de
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