2023-04-24

Veridian’s Diary - Low resolution image pre-generation for Veridian viewer

Read about an improvement to Veridian's digital collection viewer: a new hybrid approach that optionally pre-generates low resolution images.

2023-02-28

Veridian’s Diary - Papers Past article from 1912 predicting climate change goes viral - again!

Learn about a 1912 newspaper article that has gone viral again and again.

2021-10-18

Veridian’s Diary: Identifying the number of views for specific titles in Google Analytics

Learn about two methods of determining the number of views for specific titles within a Veridian collection.

2021-08-24

Veridian’s Diary: Investigating an ‘explosion’ in collection web traffic via Google Analytics

Learn about an investigation into a massive spike in traffic that the team at the Library of Virginia discovered for their digital collection last October.

2021-06-21

Veridian’s Diary: Date validation and new Veridian viewer

Learn about Veridian’s source data validation and new viewer capabilities illustrated by an interesting newspaper issue.

2021-05-20

Veridian’s Diary: Transliteration and Stemming

Learn about some technical challenges we encountered when implementing transliteration and stemming techniques into Veridian.

2021-02-22

Veridian’s Diary: Discovering topics in the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection

The Colorado Historic Newspaper Collection has a ‘topics’ discovery page, where users can explore some of the fascinating content contained within.