{"id":61,"date":"2009-01-20T23:56:48","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T12:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/?p=61"},"modified":"2009-01-20T23:58:02","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T12:58:02","slug":"australian-newspapers-on-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/2009\/01\/australian-newspapers-on-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Newspapers on line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nla.gov.au\/\">National Library of Australia<\/a> released in December 2008 the first stage of their <a href=\"http:\/\/ndpbeta.nla.gov.au\/ndp\/del\/home\">project to\u00a0digitise out of copyright newspapers<\/a>. They\u00a0are creating a free online service that will enable full-text searching of newspaper articles. This is a really fantastic project, and one of the current features is the ability of users to improve, annotate, and tag the scanned material.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve found some interesting tidbits already. These include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nla.gov.au\/nla.news-article3682426\">Report of the death<\/a> of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/vc.id.au\/gen\/getperson.php?personID=I1068&amp;tree=vc\">Leonard Van\u00a0Cooten<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; we were previously unaware of these circumstances<\/li>\n<li>Various listings (<a href=\"http:\/\/nla.gov.au\/nla.news-article3652376\">for example<\/a>) of <a href=\"http:\/\/vc.id.au\/gen\/getperson.php?personID=I37&amp;tree=vc\">John Hughes Van Cooten<\/a> traveling by sea along the coast of Queensland<\/li>\n<li>Reference to <a href=\"http:\/\/vc.id.au\/gen\/getperson.php?personID=I37&amp;tree=vc\">John Hughes Van Cooten<\/a> working for <a href=\"http:\/\/nla.gov.au\/nla.news-article3563453\">Ipswich Woollen Mills<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Reference to <a href=\"http:\/\/vc.id.au\/gen\/getperson.php?personID=I37&amp;tree=vc\">John Hughes Van Cooten<\/a> being involved in a <a href=\"http:\/\/nla.gov.au\/nla.news-article3648560\">horse-drawn vehicle accident<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Reference to <a href=\"http:\/\/vc.id.au\/gen\/getperson.php?personID=I1113&amp;tree=vc\">William Neuendorf<\/a> being involved in a <a href=\"http:\/\/nla.gov.au\/nla.news-article3494965\">horse fall<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Reference to the premises of <a href=\"http:\/\/vc.id.au\/gen\/getperson.php?personID=I1020&amp;tree=vc\">Walter Neuendorf<\/a> being <a href=\"http:\/\/nla.gov.au\/nla.news-article1148870\">burnt down<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Library of Australia released in December 2008 the first stage of their project to\u00a0digitise out of copyright newspapers. They\u00a0are creating a free online service that will enable full-text searching of newspaper articles. This is a really fantastic project, <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/2009\/01\/australian-newspapers-on-line\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[21,11],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sources","tag-neuendorf","tag-van-cooten"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}