Proquest archival newspapers - self hosting?

[Ian Ibbotson]

Sorry - wrong link: http://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/

Ian Ibbotson
Director
Knowledge Integration Ltd
35 Paradise Street, Sheffield. S3 8PZ
T: 0114 273 8271
M: 07968 794 630
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On 7 January 2016 at 06:43, Ian Ibbotson <ian.ibbotson at k-int.com> wrote:

> Fair warning -- I'm one of the devs on this -- but I wonder if Jisc would
> be interested in offering up historical texts platform (
> https://www.jisc.ac.uk/historical-texts) for this? I think the platform
> itself carries an open license, but the real investment is in the content
> and the [maintenance of] storage and indexing infrastructure to make all
> this work together well. Just a thought, cc'd Scott Gibbens at Jisc in case
> he has any thoughts!
>
> Ian.
>
> Ian Ibbotson
> Director
> Knowledge Integration Ltd
> 35 Paradise Street, Sheffield. S3 8PZ
> T: 0114 273 8271
> M: 07968 794 630
> W: http://www.k-int.com
>
> On 7 January 2016 at 01:35, 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.
>>
>> --
>> Stacy Pober
>> Information Alchemist
>> Manhattan College Library
>> Riverdale, NY 10471
>> stacy.pober at manhattan.edu
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