Keywords
Obituaries, FamilySearch, obituary index, Utah newspaper
Abstract
The Utah Digital Newspapers (UDN) and FamilySearch are joining forces to create an innovative obituary index. UDN contains 282,000 obituaries in its extensive database of historic Utah newspapers. UDN’s headlines are manually keyed (double-keyed and reconciled), and are nearly letter-perfect. However, the article text is created from raw optical character recognition software, which is often less than fully accurate.
Original Publication Citation
Herbert, J., Alexander, J., Myntti, J., and Witkowski, A. (2014) Getting the crowd into obituaries: How a unique partnership combined the world’s largest obituary index with Utah’s largest historic newspaper database. IFLA International Newspapers Conference 2014 http://www.ifla.org/files/assets/newspapers/SLC/2014_ifla_slc_herbert_mynti_alexander_witk owski_-_getting_the_crowd_into_obituaries.pdf
BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Myntti, Jeremy; Herbert, John; Witkowski, Alan; and Alexander, John, "Getting the crowd into obituaries: How a unique partnership combined the world’s largest obituary index with Utah’s largest historic newspaper database" (2014). Faculty Publications. 6435.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/6435
Document Type
Peer-Reviewed Article
Publication Date
2014
Publisher
IFLA International Newspapers
Language
English
College
Harold B. Lee Library
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