University of Limerick2012

Digitisation of the Magazine of Magazines,

a Mid-Eighteenth Century Limerick Publication

Prof. Geraldine Sheridan, Dr. Michael Griffin & Yvonne Diggins

Eighteenth Century Research Group in conjunction with the Irish Literature

Seminar Series, University of Limerick

11th April 2012

Digitisation Project 1

UL Research Seed Fund and PRTLI 4 (Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions: Cycle 4, HEA)

Magazine images text searchable (over 150 pdfs) (1751-1761)2012 approx. 80 (1761-1769)

Available as a public good

Software Used: ABBYY Finereader Version 10

Optical Character Recognition Software Trained to read 18th Century

characters Keeps the original visual

representation of the Magazine of Magazines

Adds the OCR text behind the original images

Example of a Trained User Pattern

Demonstration of the Text Searchable Document

View demo here: http://www3.ul.ie/ecrg/digitised-versions

Sample Searchable Text: Original

Sample Searchable Text in Text Editor

Digitisation Project 2

Collaborative project ECRG (UL & Mary Immaculate College),

TCD, British Library, National Library of Ireland

150 ebooks with annotations (1751-1761) 2012 approx. 80 ebooks (1761-1769)

Available as a public good

Software UsedPhotoshop CS5 (saving of images

for web)Audacity (recording annotations) iMark- interactive Media

Annotation Resource Kit

Demonstration of the eBooks View demo here:

http://www3.ul.ie/ecrg/ndlr-ebook-project

Storing of Outputs

ECRG WebsiteUL Institutional Repository NDLR National Library of Ireland

www.ul.ie/ecrg

User Stats Project page on ECRG website:

Over 24,230 views Collection on NDLR:

255 views NDLR Top Country Views

Ireland (174) United States of America (32) Russian Federation (11) United Kingdom (10) Ukraine (5) Netherlands (2)