Veridian Newsletter - December 2017

The year is now coming to an end. It has been a successful year for us here at Veridian and we hope it has been for you too! But before we start enjoying this sunny holiday season here in New Zealand, let's quickly look back to see what we've accomplished in 2017.

Our first priority for this year was to upgrade Veridian’s User Interface. It was a hard but enjoyable journey for all of us, from research, re-design, and implementation, to full-scale testing with everyone in the office. The new UI gives Veridian a new look and a more modern and more new-tech-friendly interface - https://www.veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/new-veridian-user-interface-for-2017/

The second and third goals for the year were to help improve our clients' digital content quality by offering technical aids as well as pushing forward with our high-quality data conversion services. We have made great progress on both fronts. Technically, the upgraded Veridian now has a built-in QA (Quality Assurance) mode that allows collection administrators to visualise the underlying METS/ALTO structure (https://www.veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/a-note-about-hidden-alto-data-errors/). Service-wise, we've successfully established our data conversion service model and have completed several great projects with high-quality Veridian-audited METS/ALTO output.

Columbia Daily Spectator - Updated in November 2017
http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/

The Archive of the Columbia Daily Spectator, the newspaper of Columbia University and Morningside Heights and the second-oldest college daily paper in the country. The Archive spans the run of the newspaper from 1877 to 2015. Additional increments of recent printed issues (2016 and onwards) will be periodically digitized and added to the Archive in coming years. This collection contains 16,751 issues comprising 128,074 pages and 585,303 articles

The Cornell Daily Sun - Updated in November 2017
http://cdsun2.library.cornell.edu/

The Cornell University Library and the Cornell Daily Sun are collaborating on an ambitious new digitization project to provide online access to the Sun's historical files. All of the original newspapers will be scanned and made available on a web site maintained by the Cornell University Library.
For more than 120 years, the Sun has provided news, information, and entertainment to the entire Cornell community. Accounts of campus events and activities, sports reporting, and editorial commentary all contribute to make the Sun one of the most important sources of information on the history of the university. This collection contains 15,178 issues comprising 124,897 pages and 880,662 articles.

HRVH Historical Newspapers - Updated in December 2017
https://news.hrvh.org/

HRVH Historical Newspapers provides access to digitized copies of historical newspapers from the Hudson River Valley region of New York State. Each newspaper in HRVH Historical Newspapers has its own page with information about the publication, including the date range that is available online and information about the history of the newspaper. This collection contains 28,807 issues comprising 299,851 pages and 1,017,782 articles.