Catholic Newspapers Committee
Committee Charge
The Catholic Newspapers Committee is charged with establishing a program that will identify, locate, document, preserve and
digitize North American Catholic newspapers, working systematically and collaboratively with members, scholars, and other associations
2016/17 goals:
- Identify two grant opportunities for the newspapers project and one for a local newspaper project (such as a smaller grant to digitize paper(s) within a state or region).
- Develop OCR Text correction guidelines.
- In collaboration with Digitizing Partners, pursue permissions and signed digitization agreements for priority papers.
View this committee's accomplishments for 2015/16.
(Requests to view committee minutes or agendas should be sent to [email protected]).
Members:
Newspapers Committee
Digitizing Partners Committee
- Darren Poley - Chair (2018/19)
- Noel McFerran
- Rob Behary
- Karen Berry
- Amy Cooper Cary
- Cait Kokolus
- Malachy McCarthy
- Jean C. McManus
- Tim Meagher
- Betsy Post
- Steven Szegedi
- Shawn Weldon
Catholic Newspapers Subcommittees
The Catholic Newspapers Committee includes several subcommittees and working groups: the CRRADigitizing Partners who support our work to digitize the priority papers, the Digitization Agreement Group, and the Digitization Specifications Group. The Directory Group and the Repository Group have completed their work.
The CRRA Digitizing Partners
For a listing of the subcommittee members, click here.
Newspapers Digitization Specifications Working Group
OVERVIEW AND BACKGROUND
The Newspapers Digitization Specifications Working Group is an ad hoc group that supports CRRA's Catholic Newspapers Program. Their work takes place May-June 2014, with a preliminary report at the CRRA All Members meeting May 8 at Marquette.
COMMITTEE CHARGE
Develop digitization specifications based on national standards and tailored for the CRRA’s Catholic Newspapers Program for use by digitizing partners and CRRA members.
Members:
- Betsy Post, Chair
- Rob Behary
- Kate Dohe
- David Crawford
- Rose Fortier
- Demian Katz
- Shana McDanold
- Wendall Sullivan
- Pat Lawton ex officio
Work Completed
Newspaper Directory Working Group
COMMITTEE CHARGE
To identify, explore, and recommend hardware and software solutions for the CRRA Newspaper Directory. This group's work was completed between Spring 2013 and Fall 2013.
Members:
- Rob Behary
- Shana McDanold
- Noel McFerran
- Betsy Post
- Manda Vrkljan
- Pat Lawton ex officio
Advisory:
- Demian Katz, DAC Chair
Repository Working Group
COMMITTEE CHARGE
The Repository Working Group is an ad hoc group that supports CRRA's Newspaper Digitization Program. This group's work was completed in January 2014. Click here for more information about the Repository Working Group.
Goals:
The goal for the Repository Working Group is to identify and recommend strategies, options, and cost estimates for repository options for Catholic newspapers in digital form.
- Identify the purposes and priorities for a CRRA newspapers repository solution
- Evaluate 3-4 options such as Veridian, Islandora, NDNP
- Develop repository options with cost estimates for implementation and hosting to include in the concept proposal (to Board Feb. 2014)
This recommendation will be part of a larger concept proposal to digitize Catholic newspapers and make them available and searchable through a repository. For the proposal, we will need cost estimates for digitization of the priority papers and for the repository solution.
Members:
- Betsy Post, Chair
- Rob Behary
- Kate Dohe
- Demian Katz
- Leah Prescott
- Pat Lawton ex officio
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