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

Document Type

Peer-Reviewed Article

Publication Date

2014

Publisher

IFLA International Newspapers

Language

English

College

Harold B. Lee Library

University Standing at Time of Publication

Associate Professor

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