Message-Id: <200203071729.g27HTTG13840@sitelicense.arizona.edu> Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 12:29:29 -0500 From: Scott Plunkett <mailto:scott.plunkett@COLDNORTHWIND.COM> Subject: new product announcement - Port Phillip Herald archive released. To: mailto:IMAGELIB@listserv.arizona.edu
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Hello all - I mentioned in a previous posting that I was part of a team working on a series of web-based archive produ
ts. We have just released an on-line archive of the Port Phillip Herald, a newspaper from Melbourne, Australia. Full p
ge newspaper images were digitally scanned from microfilm. The digital images were then processed using OCR technology
llowing us to create an archive browsable by date, or alternately by a free text search.
This project was initiated through a commercial partnership with The Melbourne Herald Sun (the modern incarnation of the
Port Phillip Herald) and is a pay for use product, with subscriptions available for as short as two days or as long as a
year. You can take a look at http://portphillipherald.archivepublisher.com .
More details follow in this email from our marketing department.
The Melbourne Herald Sun, in association with Cold North Wind Inc., is making Australian history by publ
shing part of the Port Phillip Herald archive on the Internet, in its original form, fully searchable by date or word ph
ase.
The history of the Melbourne Herald Sun stretches back before the Federation of the States of Australia
o the exciting days of exploration of the coast and interior of Australia. It was in 1840 that a little newspaper in Mel
ourne was first published by George Cavenagh as the Port Phillip Herald, the forbearer of today's Melbourne Herald Sun.
The published portion of the archive covers the early days of Melbourne from the newspaper's first issue
on January 3, 1840 until December 31, 1860: roughly 30,000 page images and almost 5,000 issues. Originally published thr
ce-weekly and from 1849 as a daily, the newspaper changed its name several times before settling on the Melbourne Herald
on its masthead from 1855 onward. The archive covers such events as the development of Melbourne, early expeditions into
the Australian interior, the establishment of Victoria as a separate colony, the opening of the University of Melbourne,
the gold rush in the minefields surrounding Melbourne and subsequent rebellions in those areas. Also in these pages you
ill find news of general interest, advertisements, announcements of births, deaths, marriages and the arrival and depart
re of ships carrying colonists to the new territory.
Information regarding subscription to the database is available at http://portphillipherald.archivepubli
her.com
Cold North Wind Inc. specializes in turning hard-to-access microfilmed newspaper archives into full-page
fully-searchable images on the Internet. Cold North Wind's technology process produced a world-first by publishing the
ntire archives of a major newspaper in full-page form: two million pages of the Toronto Star from 1892 to 1999.
Later this year, Cold North Wind will publish archives of a number of defunct newspaper titles from Cana
a and some currently published newspaper titles as part of its Paper of Record product. More information about Paper of
Record is available on Cold North Wind's website at www.coldnorthwind.com.
Scott Plunkett - mailto:scott.plunkett@coldnorthwind.com
Cold North Wind Inc.
http://www.coldnorthwind.com
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