Background
Veridian Software is the product and service provided by DL Consulting, a company that resides in Hamilton, New Zealand. They specialize in national newspaper collections worldwide, large statewide collections in the United States, and universities.
I interviewed the CEO of DL Consulting in July 2021. You can read it HERE. It will provide you with some background about Veridian Software.
Their website is VeridianSoftware.com.
They also were the providers of Elephind, which provided a federated search of many of their databases, all at once. It has currently been taken down, but who knows? It might be resurrected in the future.
Features
Some of the unique features of their software are the ability to handle different alphabets, such as Hebrew for the National Library of Israel, and the Japanese alphabet for the Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection of primarily Japanese American newspapers. This collection is provided by the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
Another unique feature is the ability, via crowdsourcing, for registered users to make corrections to the text that resulted from the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) process. Since digitized newspaper research is primarily dependent on the quality of the original newsprint, which is often over 140 years old, the ability for users to positively contribute to the newspaper index is a useful feature.
Installations
Currently, they have 63 installations of their software. They have provided solutions for the National Libraries in Switzerland, Estonia, Israel, Singapore, and New Zealand. They also have statewide collections in New York, California, Michigan, Colorado, Wyoming, Indiana, Virginia, Illinois, and Washington State. Over 30 universities are currently using Veridian software as well.
The company has recently reached a big milestone. They now have over 109 million pages in all their collections.
Below is a list of all the institutions (with links) using Veridian Software:
- American Foundation for the Blind – Helen Keller Archive
- Beloit College Digital Publications Archive
- Berkshire School Archives
- Boston College – Jesuit Online Library
- Boston College Newspapers
- California Digital Newspaper Collection – J. Archives; The Jewish News of Northern California
- Cambridge Public Library
- Case Western Reserve University – Student Newspaper Archive
- Catholic Research Resources Alliance – The Catholic News Archive
- Central Michigan University – Clarke Digital Collection
- Central Michigan University – Digital Michigan Newspapers
- Central Michigan University – Scholarly & Creative Works
- Central Michigan University History
- Colorado State Library – Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection
- Columbia University – Columbia Spectator Archive
- Columbia University – The Record Archive
- Consortium of Pentecostal Archives
- Cornell University – Cornell Daily Sun
- Cornell University – Friend of Man
- Cornell University – Preservation News
- Holland Society of New York – Holland Society Archives
- Hoover Institution Library & Archives – Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection
- Illinois State University – Vidette Digital Archives
- Indiana State Library – Hoosier State Chronicles
- Jewish Historical Society of New Jersey Archives
- Kaniʻāina “Voices of the Land” Digital Library
- Kent State University – Kent Stater Archive
- Lehigh University – The Lehigh Digital Archives
- Library of Virginia – Virginia Chronicle
- National Library of Estonia
- National Library of New Zealand – Papers Past
- Northern New York Library Network – The NYS Historic Newspapers
- Office of Hawaiian Affairs – Papakilo Hawaiian Newspaper Collection
- Ohio State University – Our Choking Times
- Palm Springs – Accessing the Past
- Palo Alto High School – Paly Journalism Archive
- Phillips Exeter Academy – The Exonian Archive
- Plains to Peaks Historic Newspapers
- Princeton University – Historical Periodicals Project
- Princeton University – Papers of Princeton
- Princeton University – Princeton Blue Mountain Project
- Purdue University – Archives and Special Collections
- Singapore National Library – Newspaper SG
- Southeastern New York Library Resources Council – HRVH Historical Newspapers
- Sudan Open Archive
- Swiss National Library
- The Harker School Digital Archives
- The Lawrenceville School Digital Publication Collection
- The National Library of Israel – Historical Jewish Press
- The Ohio State University Newspaper Archives
- Tufts University – Newspapers @ Tufts
- University of California Riverside – California Digital Newspaper Collection
- University of California San Francisco – Synapse Archive
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections
- University of Pennsylvania – Daily Pennsylvanian Digital Archives
- University of Richmond – The Collegian
- Upper Hutt City Library – Upper Hutt Leader
- Vassar College – Vassar Newspaper Archives
- Washington State Library – Washington Digital Newspapers
- Watson House Digital Archives
- Winona State University – Winona Newspapers
- Wyoming Digital Newspaper Collection
- Yale University – Yale Daily News Historical Archive
Check out the details about all of their projects HERE
