Digitization: 1.9 million NZZ newspaper pages available online
To date, around 1.9 million NZZ newspaper pages have been published. Now this enormous amount will be digitized and available online at E-newspaperarchives.ch from 2021. The canton of Zurich is providing 500,000 Swiss francs from the lottery fund for this purpose.
For the project, which has a pilot character, the NZZ, the Swiss National Library NL and the Zurich Central Library ZB. This will be the first time that a "German-language daily newspaper with a global impact" will be fully available through a Swiss library service, according to a statement on Thursday.
The volumes 1780 to 1950 have already been scanned for a research project of the Institute for Computational Linguistics at the University of Zurich. Now the remaining issues of the NZZ be digitized. Freely accessible on the platform from 2021 will be all issues with the exception of the last 25 years. Newer issues are subject to a payment mode.
The total cost of the project is around CHF 1 million. Half of the costs will be covered by the canton of Zurich, while the NL and the ZB will each contribute 20 percent. The UBS Cultural Foundation is contributing CHF 100,000 to the digitization project. The E-newspaperarchives.ch (E-npa.ch) platform is operated by the NL. (SDA)
