--- title: Veridian Blog - Resources on Digitizing Archives & Historic Newspapers (6) description: Get expert insights, proven strategies & case studies on digitizing archives & historical newspapers—ideal for every stage of your digitization project. 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Whether you're just starting your digitisation project or looking to optimise your digital collections, there’s something here for every stage. - [Show All](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base) - [Case Studies](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/tag/case-studies) - [Digitization & Preservation](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/tag/digitization-preservation) - [Collection Management](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/tag/collection-management) - [Collection Health](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/tag/collection-health) - [Veridian Software Updates](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/tag/veridian-software-updates) - [Audience Engagement](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/tag/audience-engagement) - [Search & Discovery](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/tag/search-discovery) - [People & Culture](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/tag/people-culture) - [Platform Migration](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/tag/platform-migration) - [Accessibility](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/tag/accessibility) - [Case Studies](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/tag/case-studies) - [Digitization & Preservation](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/tag/digitization-preservation) - [Collection Management](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/tag/collection-management) - [Collection Health](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/tag/collection-health) - [Veridian Software Updates](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/tag/veridian-software-updates) - [Audience Engagement](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/tag/audience-engagement) - [Search & Discovery](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/tag/search-discovery) - [People & Culture](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/tag/people-culture) - [Platform Migration](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/tag/platform-migration) - [Accessibility](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/tag/accessibility) April 07, 2020 ### [Working From Our Bubbles: Veridian’s Remote Life in 2020 Working from home became the norm in 2020, but for Veridian it was business as usual—remote collaboration is in our DNA. Here’s a peek at our “bubbles.”](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/working-from-our-bubbles-veridians-remote-life-in-2020) [Read More](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/working-from-our-bubbles-veridians-remote-life-in-2020) February 10, 2020 ### [Meet Stefan - Veridian Managing Director Stefan founded Veridian in 2006. Two decades on, he’s proud of the smart, loyal team behind millions of digitised pages—and still perfecting his potatoes.](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/meet-stefan-veridian-managing-director) [Read More](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/meet-stefan-veridian-managing-director) January 21, 2020 ### [Revamped Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections: New Features & Design Now easier than ever to explore: IDNC’s 1.5M+ pages relaunch on Veridian with responsive design, advanced search, and enhanced user text correction.](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/fresh-look-features-for-illinois-digital-newspaper-collections) [Read More](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/fresh-look-features-for-illinois-digital-newspaper-collections) January 21, 2020 ### [The East View Global Press Archive Powered by Veridian With 30 languages, 80 countries, and thousands of titles, the Global Press Archive—on Veridian—opens new horizons for digital humanities research.](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/the-east-view-global-press-archive-powered-by-veridian) [Read More](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/the-east-view-global-press-archive-powered-by-veridian) December 12, 2019 ### [Veridian Year in Review: 2019 Highlights and Achievements From new digital collections to our first audio archive, 2019 was a big year—celebrating 10 years of the Veridian name, new projects, and a global user](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/veridian-year-in-review-2019-highlights-and-achievements) [Read More](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/veridian-year-in-review-2019-highlights-and-achievements) November 18, 2019 ### [Meet Michael - Veridian Chief Engineer From scaling Veridian to millions of pages to perfecting clean code, Michael has been shaping digital collections—and dodging karaoke—since 2007.](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/meet-michael-veridian-chief-engineer) [Read More](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/meet-michael-veridian-chief-engineer) September 26, 2019 ### [Engage Your Audience: Turn Digital Archives into Active Communities Digitization is just the beginning. Discover how Veridian helps libraries turn online collections into thriving communities, with tools that attract visitors,](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/patron-engagement) [Read More](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/patron-engagement) July 15, 2019 ### [New Features & Feedback: Veridian’s U.S. Visit and User Group Meetings From Washington DC to Minneapolis, Veridian Director Stefan connected with customers and partners, shared new features, and gathered ideas for the future.](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/new-features-feedback-veridians-u.s.-visit-and-user-group-meetings) [Read More](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/new-features-feedback-veridians-u.s.-visit-and-user-group-meetings) June 11, 2019 ### [Meet Richard - Veridian Project Lead Richard holds the secrets to a well crafted digital collection. From system design and data conversion to digital image repositories and custom user](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/meet-richard-veridian-project-lead) [Read More](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/meet-richard-veridian-project-lead) May 20, 2019 ### [A Decade of Veridian Digital Newspaper Publishing Software Ten years of Veridian Software: a platform created to present digital newspapers at scale, inspired by Greenstone—and yes, there’s an elephant story.](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/a-decade-of-veridian-digital-newspaper-publishing-software) [Read More](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/a-decade-of-veridian-digital-newspaper-publishing-software) April 28, 2019 ### [Meet Jeffrey- Veridian Operations Manager and Project Lead Kuan-Yu (Jeffrey) Ke keeps Veridian running smoothly—balancing project leadership, customer support, and a passion for preserving history worldwide.](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/meet-jeffrey-veridian-operations-manager-and-project-lead) [Read More](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/meet-jeffrey-veridian-operations-manager-and-project-lead) March 24, 2019 ### [Veridian Now Supports IIIF for Richer Digital Image Access IIIF comes to Veridian—bringing interoperability, richer image access, and new opportunities for collaboration in digital collections worldwide.](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/veridian-now-supports-iiif-for-richer-digital-image-access) [Read More](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/veridian-now-supports-iiif-for-richer-digital-image-access) March 11, 2019 ### [Kaniʻāina Kaniʻāina Relaunch: Interactive Native Hawaiian Audio Archive Kaniʻāina, the first Veridian audio archives collection, launches offering bilingual, interactive access to Native Hawaiian speech recordings and transcripts.](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/kaniʻāina-veridians-first-audio-archive-collection-launches) [Read More](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/kaniʻāina-veridians-first-audio-archive-collection-launches) February 12, 2019 ### [Case Western Reserve Launches Digital Student Newspaper Archive From 1862 to 2010: 55,000+ pages of CWRU student newspapers are now digitised and searchable in the new Digital Student Newspaper Archive.](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/case-western-reserve-launches-digital-student-newspaper-archive) [Read More](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/case-western-reserve-launches-digital-student-newspaper-archive) February 06, 2019 ### [Vassar College Digital Newspapers See Traffic Boost with Veridian SEO When search engines weren’t indexing Vassar College’s digital collection, traffic stalled. A few targeted SEO enhancements by Veridian led to a 28x increase](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/vassar-seo-case-study) [Read More](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/vassar-seo-case-study) January 23, 2019 ### [400K Pages Online in Washington Digital Newspapers Archive The Washington State Library launches its new Washington Digital Newspapers site, with 400k+ pages of history now more accessible than ever.](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/400k-pages-online-in-washington-digital-newspapers-archive) [Read More](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/400k-pages-online-in-washington-digital-newspapers-archive) January 21, 2019 ### [Washington State Library Digital Newspapers Migrates to Veridian Previously accessed via ChronAm viewing software, the Washington State Library (WSL) sought a new solution that was able to handle the complexities of a large](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/case-study-washington-state-library-digital-newspapers) [Read More](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/case-study-washington-state-library-digital-newspapers) January 15, 2019 ### [Digitize and Engage: Transforming Historic Collections with Veridian Veridian software and services make it easy to digitize and provide online access to historic newspaper and archive collections.](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/veridian-services) [Read More](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/veridian-services) January 15, 2019 ### [Risks and Realities of Crowdsourced OCR Text Correction UTC creates a community of people working together to create a valuable resource. What prevents users from maliciously vandalizing or corrupting the text?](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/user-text-corruption) [Read More](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/user-text-corruption) January 14, 2019 ### [Central Michigan University Upgrades Digital Collections to Veridian Central Michigan University began their digital library project with OCLC’s CONTENTdm in 2008. After working with the system for several years, they were looking for an alternative solution.](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/conversion-contentdm-to-veridian) [Read More](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/conversion-contentdm-to-veridian) [3](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/page/3) [4](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/page/4) [5](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/page/5) [6](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/page/6) [7](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/page/7) ## **Subscribe for updates** Keep up with digitization best practices, case studies, Veridian feature updates and more. Each month, straight to your inbox. 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