I giornali quotidiani italiani nel Piano nazionale di digitalizzazione

The paper intends to illustrate the features of the project “Carta”, that – in the framework of the Piano Nazionale di Digitalizzazione/National Digitization Plan - aims at the digitization of the newspapers from the Unity of Italy (1861) to 1955. The project has been identified in collaboration with the Direzione generale Biblioteche e diritto d’autore del Ministero della Cultura/ General Directorate for Libraries and Copyright of the Ministry of Culture; it involves thecollaboration of the National Central Library of Florence, the National Central Library of Rome, the Braidense Library and the National Library of Naples and it aims at the creation of 12,5 million images in order to cover the entire Italian publishing production of newspapers in the considered time-frame. The ultimate goal of the operation is the creation of a database that, on the one hand, may provide a “virtual” reconstruction of each newspaper’s consistency and, on the other hand, may enable more fluid searches, also through the application of the OCR technology.