Newserve

Newserve provides an easy-to-use search interface, interlacing the results on the map and a timeline. The ultimate goal of Newserve is to provide a single point of access to all newspaper resources in libraries of Australia - whether it be just catalogue information of the newspapers stored in the libraries of Australia or be the digitised newspaper collections. So far Newserve uses newspaper catalogue data of State Library of New South Wales and Trove digitised newspaper collection. We will continue to add newspaper collection of other libraries of Australia as those are become available. The development of Newserve started in the Mashup at Mitchell hack day organized by State Library of NSW where it won the overall winner prize. Newserve is submitted as an entry into the Library Hack competition.

Data sets used

At present Newserve is powered by following datasets:

- State Library of NSW's newspaper catalogue data, and
- Trove digitized newspaper collection.

The catalogue data was available in MARC21 format. We have parsed it's different fields and extracted the required information, indexed the data and laid it out as a layer on the map.

Trove data is accessed using the experimental trove API, which is developed by Tim Sherrat.

Newserve features

Visualisation features:

- Visualisation on map - mapping all the newspapers of State Library of NSW collection and also Trove digital collection
- Timeline visualisation - Along with map all the newspapers are shown on a timeline
- Interactive timeline traversal - Just press the play button to see the the evolution of newspapers in Australia

Search features:

- Search the newspaper collection catalogue of State Library of NSW by title, date and location
- Search Trove digital collection by keyword, title, date and location - Filter the map markers to see either catalogue data or Trove data or both

Future plans

We plan to add the newspaper catalogue data of all the state libraries of Australia. We also have plans to show the Trove search results in a story timeline view in the future.

Please leave any feedback by emailing to: newserve@3colors.com.au

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