@article{kzm 72133, author = {Dirk Luyten}, title = {Historisch onderzoek en digitalisering van kranten}, volume = {60}, year = {2006}, url = {https://openjournals.ugent.be/kzm/article/id/72133/}, issue = {0}, doi = {10.21825/kzm.v60i0.17402}, abstract = {<p>More and more editors and public libraries and centres for documentation<br>digitise newspapers. In Belgium, digitisation of daily newspapers is just starting.<br>Two small scale, but innovative initiatives should be mentioned here: first<br>of all, the Erfgoedcel (heritage cell) of the city of Ieper took the initiative to<br>digitise the nineteenth-century local press. Secondly, the library of the city of<br>Ostend digitised a set of local newspapers from the nineteenth and first half<br>of the twentieth century. Further initiatives are taken at all levels of the<br>Belgian state. To avoid overlap and waste of money, coordination is necessary,<br>taking into account the complex institutional structure of the Belgian state.<br>This coordination is the aim of Presse-Papier, the national project for the<br>preservation of Belgian newspapers. Representatives of the different types of<br>institutions who keep newspapers, meet regularly and a central database of all<br>the Belgian newspapers will facilitate coordination and cooperation.<br>Digitisation shows that newspapers are a quite original historical source, and<br>because a newspaper includes information on all aspects of society, economy<br>and politics, it can be interesting for the general public as well. Moreover,<br>digitisation offers new opportunities for research, which is less time consuming.</p>}, month = {1}, pages = {87-100}, issn = {2736-2175}, publisher={Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis}, journal = {Handelingen - Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse maatschappij voor taal- en letterkunde en geschiedenis} }