A Biblioteca Britânica digitalizará mais de 300 anos de publicações de periódicos. Os dados ficarão compilados no British Newspaper Archive. “Se trata de 650 millones de artículos que infoman sobre los eventos más significativos”, informa o blog Clases de Periodismo.

No Telegraph, existem informações completas sobre o processo e o projeto British Newspaper. “People will now be able to search the ‘British Newspaper Archive’, which is made up of four million pages – containing articles from local and regional papers going back to 1700, for details about members of their family who may have been eminent in their local communities hundreds of years ago.”

Alberto Marques