Reflections on "The Yomiuri Shimbun in CD-ROMs" series, taking examples from "The Yomiuri Shimbun in the Meiji Era," "The Yomiuri Shimbun in the Taisho Era," and "The Yomiuri Shimbun in the Showa Era" : An introduction (<Special feature> Image digitalization)

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  • 「明治・大正・昭和の読売新聞CD-ROM」について(<特集>資料のデジタル画像化と保存)
  • 「明治・大正・昭和の読売新聞CD-ROM」について
  • メイジ タイショウ ショウワ ノ ヨミウリ シンブン CD ROM ニ ツイテ

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In November 1999, The Yomiuri Shimbun released a CD-ROM titled "The Yomiuri Shimbun in the Meiji Era," which provides searchable archives of news articles and images from the period that have been digitalized from microfilm. This is the first time a newspaper has made it possible to search digitalized images of newspaper pictures and articles as they appeared in print. Subsequent CD-ROMs, "The Taisho Era," "The prewar Showa Era I" and "The prewar Showa era II," were completed eight years after the project was first conceived. "Postwar Recovery," the first part of a postwar Showa Era series that includes newspaper stories and images until 1960, is on the way. Universities and public libraries appraised the CD-ROM series as a source of "valuable information." The system of indexing each newspaper article and image makes the archives easier to search, and the CD-ROMs have been well received by users as a result. This is the first in a series of articles that will look at how the newspaper articles and images were digitalized and categorized according to titles, keywords and classification codes to make the CD-ROM searchable.

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