Ed King   

Biography - Ed King has worked in the British Library since 1975. He has catalogued and indexed books in English and in French. He worked in the Preservation Service of the Library between 1982 and 1996, as Head of Selection and Preparation Programmes. Since 1999, he has been Head of BL Newspaper Collections. He is Secretary of the IFLA Newspapers Section. His research interests include the Crystal Palaces of 1851 and 1854, and Victorian publishers bindings. The British Library Published his bibliography of these in 2003.

Abstract - The Digitisation of historic newspapers: lessons for all

This presentation will focus upon two recent projects at the British Library: The British Newspapers 1800-1900 project; and the Burney Newspapers project. Large scale digitisation of older newspapers creates specific requirements. These will be discussed, together with lessons learned, as the projects have been realised.