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A newspaper/periodical digitalization project in Mongolia: creating a digital archive of rare Mongolian publications.

The periodical collection at the Press Institute of Mongolia includes rare newspapers documenting political and economic changes in Mongolia in the 1990s. This article describes a two-year digitization project undertaken to preserve endangered Mongolian newspapers and periodicals in the collection a...

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Published in:Serials Librarian Vol. 57; no. 1-2; pp. 118 - 128
Main Authors: Matusiak KK, Munkhmandakh M
Format: Journal Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jul/Sep2009
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          Matusiak KK
          Munkhmandakh M
        affil: Digital Collections Librarian, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2311 Hartford Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53211; kkm@uwm.edu
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          Archives
          Digitizers
          Newspapers Mongolia
          Serial Publications Mongolia
          Data Security
          Electronic Publications
          Libraries, Electronic
          Mongolia
          Preservation of Materials
          Software
      ab: The periodical collection at the Press Institute of Mongolia includes rare newspapers documenting political and economic changes in Mongolia in the 1990s. This article describes a two-year digitization project undertaken to preserve endangered Mongolian newspapers and periodicals in the collection and to expand access to them via the Internet. Newspaper digitization poses many challenges due to large format, complex page layout, and poor-quality print. These difficulties are compounded in the development of international digital libraries that use non-Latin characters. Greenstone, an open-source digital library software suite, offers multilingual support and was used to create a digital archive of these rare Mongolian publications.
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