Billion Words: The British Library British Newspapers 1800-1900 Project Some guidelines for large-scale newspaper digitisation

摘要

The British Library (BL) decided that comprehensive chronological coverage across the whole of the nineteenth century was the key to their project, and as the holder of the "master collection', the real challenge would be to convert a large volume oftext into a searchable online resource knowing that "very little is out there in terms of "mass of content".