WHAMO / Nebraska Observer

Digitizing an independent newspaper 1987-1992.

WHAMO: World Herald Attitude Monitoring Operation.

In 1989 the newpaper rebranded to "Nebraska Observer."

Collating TIFs and OCRing them

1. Used extract.ps1 (Windows PowerShell) to extract Windows file metadata out of the original TIF files.

2. Used sort.pl to rough out a list of which TIFs should be which PDFs.

3. Tons of manual fixing of errors in sorted.txt.

4. pdf_and_ocr.pl merges multiple TIFs into a single TIF, converts that TIF to PDF, and then OCRs that PDF.

Uploading to archive.org

Browse the archive. Upload documentation.

export DATE=1989-02-01; ./ia upload NebraskaObserver-$DATE NebraskaObserver-$DATE.pdf \
  --metadata="date:$DATE" \
  --metadata="title:Nebraska Observer $DATE" \
  --metadata="creator:Frances Mendenhall" \
  --metadata="description:Nebraska Observer. A citizen's organization providing an alternative voice." \
  --metadata="subject:newspaper; Omaha; Nebraska; Nebraska Observer" \
  --metadata="language:English" \
  --metadata="mediatype:texts"

export DATE=1987-09-01; ./ia upload WHAMO-$DATE WHAMO-$DATE.pdf \
  --metadata="date:$DATE" \
  --metadata="title:WHAMO $DATE" \
  --metadata="creator:Frances Mendenhall" \
  --metadata="description:WHAMO. A citizen's organization providing an alternative voice." \
  --metadata="subject:newspaper; Omaha; Nebraska; WHAMO" \
  --metadata="language:English" \
  --metadata="mediatype:texts"