--- title: Veridian Blog - Resources on Digitizing Archives & Historic Newspapers | Audience Engagement description: Audience Engagement | Get expert insights, proven strategies & case studies on digitizing archives & historical newspapers—ideal for every stage of your digitization project. --- - [![facebook](https://veridiansoftware.com/hubfs/VeridianSoftware_July2025/images/facebook.svg)](https://www.facebook.com/VeridianSoftware) - [![linkedin](https://veridiansoftware.com/hubfs/VeridianSoftware_July2025/images/linkedin.svg)](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dlconsulting-veridian-software) --- [![Veridian](https://veridiansoftware.com/hubfs/VeridianSoftware_July2025/images/veridian-logo.svg "Veridian")](https://veridiansoftware.com) - [About](https://veridiansoftware.com/about) - [Accessibility](https://veridiansoftware.com/accessibility-statement-conformance-report) - [Services](https://veridiansoftware.com/services) - [Scanning](https://veridiansoftware.com/services/scanning) - [Data Conversion](https://veridiansoftware.com/services/data-conversion) - [Presentation Software](https://veridiansoftware.com/services/presentation-software) - [Projects](https://veridiansoftware.com/collections) - Knowledge Base - [Articles & Case Studies](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base) - [Archival Metadata Standards | Guide](https://veridiansoftware.com/archival-metadata-standards-guide) - [WCAG and Accessibility | Guide](https://veridiansoftware.com/wcag-accessibility-compliance-guide-acr-vpat-for-libraries-archives) - [Contact](https://veridiansoftware.com/contact) - - - - # Knowledge Base Best practice guides on digitizing archives, tips for enhancing collection discovery and user engagement, insights into industry trends, and case studies from organisations leading the way. 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) September 16, 2026 ### [Irish Newspaper Archives Webinar | Custom Digital Collection Features Part 1 Explore a recorded webinar looking at custom features developed for the Irish Newspaper Archives, including publication updates, email alerts, saved searches,](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/irish-newspaper-archives-webinar-custom-digital-collection-features-part-1) [Read More](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/irish-newspaper-archives-webinar-custom-digital-collection-features-part-1) August 20, 2026 ### [Swedish American Newspapers Launches Expanded Bilingual Collection More than 1.3 million pages of Swedish American history are now available through the newly expanded Swedish American Newspapers collection, following the](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/swedish-american-newspapers-expanded-bilingual-collection) [Read More](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/swedish-american-newspapers-expanded-bilingual-collection) June 22, 2026 ### [How Irish Newspaper Archives Combined Scalability, Discovery and Community Features Irish Newspaper Archives migrated to Veridian to support a rapidly growing collection of more than 19 million newspaper pages. Learn how custom features](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/irish-newspaper-archives-case-study) [Read More](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/irish-newspaper-archives-case-study) March 03, 2026 ### [What Are the Benefits of Single Sign-On for Digital Collections? Single Sign-On can simplify access to digital collections, support institutional authentication, manage user permissions and verify contributors. It can also](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/single-sign-on-for-digital-collections) [Read More](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/single-sign-on-for-digital-collections) October 21, 2025 ### [Beyond Newspapers: How Veridian Brings Diverse Archives to Life Institutions worldwide are using Veridian to preserve and share diverse archival materials beyond newspapers. Explore projects such as the Helen Keller](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/veridian-for-non-newspapers) [Read More](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/veridian-for-non-newspapers) October 06, 2025 ### [Why Do WCAG Contrast Ratios Matter for Digital Collections? Poor text contrast is one of the most common accessibility failures, making online collections harder to read and use. That’s where the Web Content](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/why-wcag-contrast-ratios-matter-for-digital-collections) [Read More](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/why-wcag-contrast-ratios-matter-for-digital-collections) October 02, 2025 ### [New Veridian Feature: Built-in Tutorial for Collection Users A guided tour for first-time users! Discover Veridian’s new built-in tutorial, designed to help everyone—from researchers to casual readers—navigate with ease.](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/new-veridian-feature-built-in-tutorial-for-collection-users) [Read More](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/new-veridian-feature-built-in-tutorial-for-collection-users) September 25, 2025 ### [How to Track Newspaper Title-Level Engagement in GA4 Google Analytics 4 (GA4) can help libraries and archives understand which newspaper titles users engage with most frequently. This guide explains how Veridian](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/how-to-track-newspaper-title-level-engagement-in-ga4) [Read More](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/how-to-track-newspaper-title-level-engagement-in-ga4) June 30, 2025 ### [Keyword and Semantic Search in Digital Collections: What Is the Difference? Discover the key differences between traditional keyword search and semantic search—and learn how new technology is transforming digital collections discovery.](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/difference-between-keyword-and-semantic-search) [Read More](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/difference-between-keyword-and-semantic-search) June 29, 2025 ### [What Is RAG and How Could It Support Digital Collection Search? Our team has been researching and testing retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG, as a potential new discovery experience for the Veridian platform. RAG could](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/a-new-way-to-search-digital-collections-introducing-rag) [Read More](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/a-new-way-to-search-digital-collections-introducing-rag) April 29, 2025 ### [Veridian User Text Correction Guidelines An introduction to the Veridian User Text Correction module and guidelines to get started.](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/user-text-correction-guidelines) [Read More](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/user-text-correction-guidelines) April 14, 2025 ### [Boosting Visibility: Marketing Strategies for Digital Collections Libraries spend lots of time and money building digital cultural heritage collections. Our tips on how to avoid internet obscurity.](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/marketing-digital-collections) [Read More](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/marketing-digital-collections) June 30, 2024 ### [The Benefits of Crowdsourced User Text Correction (UTC) Veridian’s User Text Correction (UTC) module enables users to correct OCR errors directly within the text. For newspaper digitisation projects—where OCR](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/crowdsourced-user-text-correction) [Read More](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/crowdsourced-user-text-correction) July 03, 2023 ### [Enhancing Veridian Viewer with Low Resolution Image Pre-Generation Read about an improvement to Veridian's digital collection viewer: a new hybrid approach that optionally pre-generates low resolution images.](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/low-resolution-image-pre-generation-for-veridian-viewer) [Read More](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/low-resolution-image-pre-generation-for-veridian-viewer) February 27, 2023 ### [1912 Climate Change Article from New Zealand's Papers Past Goes Viral A 1912 climate warning from New Zealand’s Papers Past is making waves — again. Find out why this tiny 67-word article keeps going viral more than a century](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/papers-past-article-from-1912-predicting-climate-change-goes-viral) [Read More](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/papers-past-article-from-1912-predicting-climate-change-goes-viral) July 21, 2021 ### [Ernest Hemingway Digital Collection Used in New Documentary Central Michigan University’s Hemingway Family Scrapbooks featured in PBS’s “Hemingway” documentary, thanks to their Veridian-built digital collection.](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/ernest-hemingway-digital-collection-used-in-new-documentary) [Read More](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/ernest-hemingway-digital-collection-used-in-new-documentary) November 10, 2020 ### [National Library of Israel Unveils Enhanced Digital Newspaper Archive The National Library of Israel has relaunched its historical newspaper archive on Veridian Software](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/national-library-of-israel-newspaper-collection) [Read More](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/national-library-of-israel-newspaper-collection) October 18, 2020 ### [Spotlight on Veridian's New User Text Correction Dashboard Veridian’s debuts new User Text Correction Dashboard—engaging readers to fix OCR errors and improve search results.](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/veridian-feature-spotlight-the-user-text-correction-dashboard) [Read More](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/veridian-feature-spotlight-the-user-text-correction-dashboard) May 11, 2020 ### [Crowdsourced Text Correction Thrives During Pandemic Lockdowns With libraries closed, Veridian collections thrived—communities embraced crowdsourced text correction, making digital history more accurate and accessible.](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/crowdsourced-text-correction-thrives-during-pandemic-lockdowns) [Read More](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/crowdsourced-text-correction-thrives-during-pandemic-lockdowns) September 26, 2019 ### [Engage Your Audience: Turn Digital Archives into Active Communities Digitization is just the beginning. 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