Proquest archival newspapers - self hosting?

[Peter Murray]

Hi Stacy,

Your attachment didn't come through the listserv, so you might have to post it somewhere else and link to it.

Islandora has a newspaper content module that might suit what you need.  You can see a bare-bones, out-of-the-box sample on the Islandora sandbox:

  http://sandbox.islandora.ca/islandora/object/islandora%3A207 <http://sandbox.islandora.ca/islandora/object/islandora:207>

The University of Prince Edward Isle took the out-of-the-box experience a little further:

  http://islandnewspapers.ca/islandora/object/newspapers%3Aguardian?year=1894 <http://islandnewspapers.ca/islandora/object/newspapers:guardian?year=1894>

The Florida State University Digital Library uses the Internet Archive bookreader (also part of Islandora) to view the issues:

  https://fsu.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fsu%3A109142 <https://fsu.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fsu:109142>


Peter

> On Jan 6, 2016, at 8:35 PM, Stacy Pober <stacy.pober at MANHATTAN.EDU> wrote:
> 
> Proquest is now providing us with files of the archival newspapers we purchased from them.  They say that there are no libraries that are self-hosting access to this data, and predicted that the cost of creating a platform to search the metadata and deliver the TIFFs would be costly.
> 
> I've attached their metadata sample file.  Does anyone have suggestions on the software we could use to provide access to this material?  We'd prefer an open-source solution.  The reason we are not paying the platform fees for this material is because they got very little use. We can't justify spending funds on a proprietary software solution for this, because the material is not in great demand at our library. 



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