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Provenance Is the Bigger Opportunity New AI transparency rules are making generated content easier to identify, but provenance presents a broader challenge: helping people establish where](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/ai-transparency-digital-provenance-content-credentials) [Read More](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/ai-transparency-digital-provenance-content-credentials) January 29, 2025 ### [Understanding the File Structure Behind a Digitised Newspaper Issue What files are created during a newspaper digitisation project? This article breaks down the full file set behind a digitised newspaper issue and how they’re](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/digitized-newspaper-file-structure) [Read More](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/digitized-newspaper-file-structure) January 14, 2025 ### [Identifying and Fixing Hidden ALTO Data Errors in Newspaper Archives In our experience there are a number of types of “hidden errors” that occur with newspaper data batches. These errors can’t be detected by automated QA](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/a-note-about-hidden-alto-data-errors) [Read More](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/a-note-about-hidden-alto-data-errors) January 09, 2025 ### [METS & ALTO XML Metadata Standards Explained METS and ALTO are XML standards maintained by the Library of Congress.](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/mets-alto) [Read More](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/mets-alto) December 19, 2024 ### [Using Structural Metadata to Enhance Newspaper Digitization Many benefits come with conforming to recognized standards like METS and ALTO, as used by existing, well-established projects.](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/structural-metadata) [Read More](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/structural-metadata) December 12, 2024 ### [Pros and Cons of Digital Newspaper Article Segmentation When digitizing newspapers it is possible to identify, segment, and categorize individual newspaper articles as they appear on the page. We explore the pros](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/newspaper-article-segmentation-pros-cons) [Read More](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/newspaper-article-segmentation-pros-cons) November 29, 2024 ### [Converting Digitized Newspapers to METS ALTO: Is It Possible? If your digitized newspapers are to be used and shared across platforms and survive into the future it is important to choose the most appropriate standards](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/mets-alto-migration) [Read More](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/mets-alto-migration) October 11, 2020 ### [Optimizing Newspaper Digitization Inside Papers Past’s Data Management An overview of each step in their data management process, including their automated and manual data acceptance testing, and how and when they reprocess data.](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/case-study-a-close-look-at-papers-pasts-data-management-processes) [Read More](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/case-study-a-close-look-at-papers-pasts-data-management-processes) November 27, 2018 ### [Veridian Ensures GDPR Compliance for Digital Collections Worldwide At Veridian we take privacy seriously. 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