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Wednesday, July 31, 2002 (AP)
Wall Street Journal, NY Times back issues scanned into digital archive


                (07-31) 09:00 PDT NEW YORK (AP) --
                The back issues of The Wall Street Journal, dating to the
paper's founding
in 1889, have been scanned into a searchable database-advertisements,
obituaries and all.
The company responsible, ProQuest Co., announced two weeks ago that it had
done the same for The New York Times, which began publishing in 1851.
Unlike most electronic databases, which contain only text, ProQuest's
"Historical Newspapers" archive brings up full pages, with images and
graphics. It is reachable via the Internet, but subscriptions are available
only to companies and institutions such as libraries.
ProQuest, based in Ann Arbor, Mich., is also scanning The Washington Post
and The Christian Science Monitor and hopes to make them available next
year.
"We are beginning with national papers, then as time goes on we hope to add
regional papers and local papers," said ProQuest spokeswoman Tina Creguer.
Creguer said it was a significant challenge to scan the newspapers from
microfilm, often shot decades after the publication of the paper.
ProQuest created special software to clean up the scans and to
electronically "read" the paper to make it searchable.
                It took 15 months to process the two papers.
                The New York Times back issues from 1851 to 1999 consist of
3.4 million
pages. The Wall Street Journal from 1889 to 1985 weighs in at 1 million
pages.
        Later issues of the papers have already been available
electronically.
On the Web:
        www.proquest.com/proquest/histdemo/default.shtml
<http://www.proquest.com/proquest/histdemo/default.shtml>

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