Digital Archive

Welcome to your digital goldmine

Bring your archive online, and let your readers access it in your apps. Legacy content is not only popular, it's a journalistic commodity your readers are willing to pay for.

Journalistic content is the fabric of history. Being able to access century-old newspapers and magazines is crucial to understanding the past. While history books provide a condensed picture, journalistic sources give us eye-witness accounts of history unfolding.

Utilize your archive to create greater reader engagement and to provide a unique look into the world of yesteryear, as seen by your predecessors.

We bring your history online

Depending on the origins of your publication, centuries of online historical articles can be searched and explored with ease.

If needed, we take charge of the process all the way from dusty old print editions to crisp online text. From handling and digitizing the archived editions to OCR-scanning.

If your archive is already digitized, we easily implement it on your website and apps.

Within a moment the archive can take you to the heights of history, like the Franz Ferdinand assassination, the fall of the Berlin Wall, or the day you were born.

Search and visualise

OCR scanning makes advanced search possible throughout the archive. You can search dates, topics, words, captions or entire articles.

As you can see on the depicted page, a search for the word ‘Titanic’ will prompt the character recognition system to find all the articles in the archive containing the word ‘Titanic’.

The search term itself is highlighted on the page, making it easy to find what you're looking for. It's also possible to limit the search to a specific period, giving you the most relevant hits.

Key uses of a Digital Archive

Generate revenue

Attract subscribers who value historical content by offering access to digital archives as part of a subscription and/or add value to your publishing platform in the form of extra content or functionality.

Research

Let journalists and editors quickly access past articles to support current reporting, identify trends, and avoid repetition. Academics, researchers, and historians can use the archives for scholarly work, providing a rich resource for studying history, media, and social changes.

Preserve content

Preserve newspapers digitally to ensure that valuable historical content is not lost and remains accessible for future generations. Protect your historical content from physical damage due to disasters like fires or floods.

Reuse news content

Curate or re-publish relevant past articles to provide context and depth to current events or anniversaries of significant events.

Engage readers

Let readers explore past articles with search functionalities, enhancing user engagement. Sharing interesting historical articles on social media platforms can drive traffic to your digital platforms and engage audiences.

Join the classroom

Digital archives encompass a massive educational potential. Open your digital archive to students and researchers to provide schools and universities with unique and authentic historical source material and position the newspaper as a community resource.

Strengthen your brand

Highlight your newspaper's extensive history through archived content to enhance its credibility and prestige. Celebrating milestones (like your paper's anniversary) by showcasing historical articles and issues can reinforce brand identity and loyalty.

Engage the local community

Leverage your digital archive as a local newspaper to engage the community by providing insights into the region's history, fostering a sense of local pride and identity.

Digital Archive is compatible with

Modular Platform Web App

Want a Digital Archive in your publishing solution?

A Digital Archive is a great opportunity to create added value for your subscribers. Contact us to explore your options for creating a Digital Archive in your publishing solution.

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