Ian's Digital Weblog

At Professor Srinivasan's behest, Chris and I looked at a number of other digital newspaper collections this week, for comparison's sake and hoping to glean some useful ideas for our own. One particularly impressive example is the Yale Daily News Digital Archive. One of the cool and useful features in this particular collection is the ability to highlight and select segmented text for close viewing. According to Mark Anderson, this feature is only available through OCLC (for a considerable fee) employing a mapping standard called METS/ALTO, which delineates each articles position on a specific page. More can be read about OCLC's proprietary control over this feature here.