DIGITALIZACIJA I ORGANIZACIJA ZNANJA BAZE PODATAKA VJESNIKOVE NOVINSKE DOKUMENTACIJE
DIGITALIZATION AND ORGANIZATION OF THE KNOWLEDGE VJESNIK’S NEWSPAPER DOCUMENTATION DATABASE

Summary/Abstract: Work unit (further in the text RJ) Vjesnik d.d., Vjesnik’s Newspaper Documentation (further in the text VND) started the process of digitization of newspaper articles in 2004. The VND was a documentation center for organizing collecting, selecting, processing and storing materials in an electronic database. Journalists’ requests and queries that were the largest users of such media bases have created a selection of methodological approaches for searching and sorting documents (newspaper articles) in response to requests for specific content. Journal articles were grouped according to areas of knowledge in in alphabetical order in Croatian language: Society / Healthcare / Social Care, Ecology, Economy / Economy, Finance, Croatia Foreign Policy / World / International Relations, Communications / Media, Culture and Art, Education, Religion, Sport, Judiciary / Crime, Internal Politics, Science and Public. For each area of knowledge, thesaurus was created according to the key words of journalist queries that were arranged by documentaries. News articles were programmatically cut, technically edited, equipped with metadata, and stored in a database of documentary preparation. The article describes another attempt to digitize the largest newspaper database in Croatia.

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