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.
Projects
Currently, they have 74 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 110 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 – Beloit College Digital Publications Archive
- Berkshire School – Berkshire School Archives
- Boston College – Boston College Newspapers
- Boston College – Jesuit Online Library
- Cambridge Public Library – Cambridge Public Library’s Historic Cambridge Newspaper Collection
- Cape May County Library – Cape May County History Online
- Case Western Reserve University – Case Western Reserve University Archives
- Catholic Research Resources Alliance – The Catholic News Archive
- Central Michigan University – Central Michigan University History
- Central Michigan University – Central Michigan University Scholarly & Creative Works
- Central Michigan University – Clarke Digital Collections
- Central Michigan University – Digital Michigan Newspapers Collection
- Colorado State Library – Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection
- Columbia University – Columbia Spectator Archive
- Columbia University – The Record Archive
- Consortium of Pentecostal Archives
- Cornell University – Preservation News
- Cornell University – The Cornell Daily Sun
- Cornell University – The Friend of Man
- Eastview – Eastview Global Press Archive
- Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center – Consortium of Pentecostal Archives
- Holland Society of New York – Holland Society Archives
- Hoover Institution Library & Archives – Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection
- Illinois State University – The Vidette Digital Archives
- Indiana State Library – Hoosier State Chronicles: Indiana’s Digital Historic Newspaper Program
- Jewish Historical Society of New Jersey – Jewish Historical Society of New Jersey Archives
- Kent State University – Daily Kent Stater Digital Archive
- Lehigh University – The Lehigh Digital Archives
- Library of Virginia – Virginia Chronicle: Digital Newspaper Archive
- National Library Board, Singapore – Singapore Newspapers
- National Library of Estonia – DIGAR Eesti artiklid
- National Library of Israel – The Israel National Library Newspapers
- New Zealand National Library – Papers Past | Books
- New Zealand National Library – Papers Past | Letters and Diaries
- New Zealand National Library – Papers Past | Magazines and Journals Home
- New Zealand National Library – Papers Past | Newspapers
- New Zealand National Library – Papers Past | Parliamentary Papers
- Office of Hawaiian Affairs – Papakilo Hawaiian Newspaper Collection
- Ohio State University Library – Ohio State University Newspaper Archives
- Ohio State University Library – Our Choking Times Archives
- Palm Springs City Council – Accessing the Past
- Palo Alto Unified School District – Paly Journalism Archive
- Papakilo – Hawaiian Newspapers Collection
- Phillips Exeter Academy – The Exonian Archives
- Plains to Peaks Historic Newspapers
- Princeton University – Princeton Blue Mountain collection
- Princeton University – Princeton Periodicals
- Publisher’s Weekly – Publishers Weekly Archive
- Purdue University – Purdue University Newspapers Collection
- Reveal Digital – Documenting White Supremacy and its Opponents in the 1920s
- Rift Valley Institute – Sudan Open Archive
- Singapore National Library – Newspaper SG
- Southeastern NY Library Resources Council – HRVH Historical Newspapers
- Sudan Open Archive
- Swiss National Library – e-newspaperarchives.ch
- The Harker School – The Harker School Digital Archives
- The Lawrenceville School – The Lawrenceville School Digital Publication Collection
- The University of California, San Francisco – UCSF Synapse Archive
- Tufts University – Newspapers @ Tufts
- Ulukau – Kaniʻāina
- Ulukau – Ulukau books
- University of California Riverside – J. Archives; The Jewish News of Northern California
- University of California, Riverside – California Digital Newspaper Collection
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections
- University of Pennsylvania – Daily Pennsylvanian Digital Archives
- University of Richmond – The Collegian Newspaper Archives
- Upper Hutt City Library – Upper Hutt Leader Newspaper Collection
- Vassar College – Vassar Newspaper & Magazine Archive
- Washington State Library – Washington Digital Newspapers
- Watson House – Irish Mission at Watson House
- Winona State University – Winona Newspaper Database
- Wyoming State Library – Wyoming Digital Newspaper Collection
- Yale University – Yale Daily News Historical Archive
Check out the details about all of their projects HERE