{"id":1189,"date":"2014-12-15T16:01:47","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T21:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/?p=1189"},"modified":"2015-01-18T23:05:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T04:05:54","slug":"coming-soon-mcgill-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/coming-soon-mcgill-daily\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming soon: McGill Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month we started an ambitious project to digitize all of the back issues of the McGill Daily, the student newspaper founded in 1911. Starting in January the plan is to start collecting\u00a0the +60,000 files into PDFs and run\u00a0optical character recognition to make the papers fully searchable. Next up will to upload them to the <a title=\"McGill University collection - Internet Archive\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/mcgilluniversity\" target=\"_blank\">Internet Archive<\/a> and then create a digital collection that features more of our digitized student publications. Our hope is to preserve and create a searchable index to part of McGill student history. We hope to follow up by adding the publications that preceded the Daily, namely the\u00a0McGill (University) Gazette\u00a01873-1890, the McGill Fortnightly\u00a01892-1898, the McGill Outlook\u00a01898-1907\u00a0and the (McGill) Martlet\u00a01908-1911.<\/p>\n<p>Since that is still many months away I&#8217;ll tease you with just the front page of the first issue.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1190\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1190\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1190\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/files\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-11-10-at-5.59.13-PM-1024x663.png\" alt=\"Searching the first issue of the McGill Daily  (1911). \" width=\"584\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/files\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-11-10-at-5.59.13-PM-1024x663.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/files\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-11-10-at-5.59.13-PM-300x194.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/files\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-11-10-at-5.59.13-PM-462x300.png 462w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/files\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-11-10-at-5.59.13-PM.png 1051w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1190\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Searching the first issue of the McGill Daily (1911).<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month we started an ambitious project to digitize all of the back issues of the McGill Daily, the student newspaper founded in 1911. Starting in January the plan is to start collecting\u00a0the +60,000 files into PDFs and run\u00a0optical character &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/coming-soon-mcgill-daily\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[117,135,30],"class_list":["post-1189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behind-scenes","category-montreal","tag-mcgill-history","tag-mcgill-university-periodicals","tag-mcgill-university-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1235,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions\/1235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}