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More than 300,000 pages from historic newspapers
processed
Bagshot, May 27th 2003 - ZyLAB, a leading provider
of advanced document management and full-text retrieval software,
was selected by the Royal Dutch Library ("Koninklijke Bibliotheek")
to help it process and manage 300,000 pages of historic newspapers.
This project entails setting up and executing all phases of information
archiving, from scanning and digitization to optical character recognition
(OCR) to making the content searchable.
ZyLAB will perform all of the data processing, and the ZyLAB software
will be used for all the subsequent searching and retrieval of the
newspapers.
This project is a component of The Netherlands' national conservation
program "Metamorfoze", an initiative of the Royal Library. A part
of this project is undertaken in cooperation with the The Hague
Municipal Archive, within the scope of the Royal Library's digitization
project "The Memory of the Netherlands".
"ZyLAB was selected because of the straightforward proposal and
the convincing presentation," says Rubrecht Zaat, project coordinator
at the Royal Library. "Another important issue was that ZyLAB has
a strong presence in the Netherlands, which facilitates good communications
between the parties. ZyLAB has shown flexibility and helps us in
developing the correct solution. The ZyLAB software requires little
customization, and it appears that the solution needs no further
development. Furthermore, ZyLAB has profound regional and international
experience in being able to process large newspaper collections."
"We are proud of the fact that the Royal Library has selected ZyLAB
from several potential suppliers," says Jan Scholtes, president
of ZyLAB. "This is only the first pilot stage. Later, the Royal
Library will decide on future projects concerning the electronic
availability of historic newspapers, based on the current experiences.
We hope we can convince the Royal Library to keep on working with
ZyLAB in the future."
The primary historic collections to be processed at this juncture
of the project are various editions of Dutch regional newspapers,
circa 1910-1945. This project is scheduled to be completed before
September 2003.
Examples of the prototype developed for the Dutch Royal Library
by ZyLAB.
ZyLAB: worldwide leaders in historic archiving
ZyLAB offers complete investigative solutions, with unrivaled searching
capabilities in more than 90 languages and the ability to easily
organize and share information online. These capabilities make ZyLAB
the supplier of choice for many organizations who need to manage
their historic archives, such as The International Court of Justice
in The Netherlands.
About ZyLAB
ZyLAB is a fully owned subsidiary of ZyLAB, a fast growing and profitable
group of companies. In 1983, ZyLAB was the first company to deliver
a full-featured PC-based full-text retrieval software package called
ZyINDEX. ZyINDEX was particularly popular for searching large collections
of electronic file collections in PC environments. As of 1991, ZyLAB
focussed all of its development and marketing efforts on ZyIMAGE,
aimed at delivering the best search engine available for large paper
collections. As a result, ZyLAB now has a full solution to archive,
search, find, organize, share and reproduce all paper and electronic
office documents. Worldwide, ZyLAB has over 300,000 current end
users and has active operational installations in more than 7,000
sites. ZyLAB has several offices in the USA, Europe and Asia. More
information can be found on
www.zylab.co.uk .
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