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Dear CHRONAM-USERS,

The Library of Congress has released an update to the Chronicling America website that includes some long-awaited changes to both the operating environment, data changes, and some minor changes to functionality.  

Software and Data Updates:

 

·        Deployed Chronicling America software and underlying data to Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud-based environment

·        Updated web page caching schedule to allow exposure to new data additions more regularly

·        Updated hit highlighting functionality on thumbnails and page images to improve accuracy of search retrieval

·        Updated batch names to no longer include “batch_” prefix in user interface displays

·        Updated records in US Newspaper Directory (Sept 2018)

·        Added new NDNP essays and batch content

·        Added functionality to the bulk OCR extraction process that will report its success or failure events at http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/events/

Minor Bug Fixes:

·        Updated character encoding causing display problems with diacritics and special characters in essays

·        Fixed bug causing date range picker in advanced search form to display incorrect date options

·        Fixed bug in OCR bulk download extraction script

Please let us know if you have any questions or note any problems with the site. (Look out for a follow-up email with more detailed information related specifically to the bulk OCR downloads.)

 

Best,

Nathan

 

 

Nathan Yarasavage
Digital Projects Specialist

National Digital Newspaper Program

Library of Congress