{"id":5374,"date":"2012-10-03T16:26:46","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T16:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/?p=5374"},"modified":"2012-10-03T16:27:03","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T16:27:03","slug":"columbia-spectator-launches-digital-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/2012\/10\/03\/columbia-spectator-launches-digital-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbia Spectator Launches Digital Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late last week, the <em>Columbia Spectator<\/em> announced the completion of the first phase of its digitization campaign. The project, a joint effort by the Spectator and Columbia University Libraries, seeks to digitize the entire Spectator, creating a comprehensive <a href=\"http:\/\/spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spectator Digital Archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Spectator is the second oldest continuously operating daily college newspaper in the US. The head of Columbia libraries\u2019 digital program, Steven Davis, <a href=\"http:\/\/alumni.columbiaspectator.com\/2012\/09\/742\/\" target=\"_blank\">estimates<\/a> that in its 135 year run (the Spectator was founded in 1877, just a few years after the <em>Harvard Crimson<\/em> first went to print), the Spectator yielded around 100,000 pages of news. Many of those pages, especially from the paper\u2019s earliest volumes, have fallen into disrepair.<\/p>\n<p>Spectator\u2019s editorial board, who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbiaspectator.com\/2012\/09\/27\/note-editors-announcing-launch-our-digital-archive\" target=\"_blank\">announced the launch of the archive<\/a> on September 27<sup>th<\/sup>, noted the role of the new Spectator archive in increasing access to and usability of Spectator back issues.  Those looking to read old issues of the paper no longer depend on \u201ccrumbling bound volumes in the Spectator office or fuzzy and incomplete microfilm rolls in the libraries,\u201d but can now scroll through a searchable, clickable digital record.<\/p>\n<p>Spectator, meanwhile, is still looking to complete the second phase of this project. Currently, most issues of the spectator from 1953 &#8211; 1985 are digitized. This leaves the oldest, most fragile volumes &#8212; which, according to Columbia librarians will likely require significant restorations and care &#8212; still to be digitized. The Spectator board is currently raising funds to repair and digitize the\u00a0 remaining pages.<\/p>\n<p>Independent of Columbia University since 1962, the Spectator reports not only on-campus proceedings, but also news from Manhattan\u2019s Upper West Side. Spectator editors see digitization both as a step towards making Spectator resources available to all, and, as board of trustees chair Wendy Brandes puts it, a way to \u201ckeep up with the industry,\u201d by facilitating access and preservation through digitization.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/proimos\/5892392091\/\">Alex E. Proimos<\/a> on Flickr; used under a <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/deed.en\">CC BY 2.0<\/a> license.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Columbia Spectator launches the first phase of its digital archive. The joint project between Spectator and Columbia University Libraries seeks to digitize every Spectator issue produced from 1877 until today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5325,"featured_media":5378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[923,2236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/files\/2012\/10\/ColumbiaLibrary.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5374"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5400,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5374\/revisions\/5400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}