Ontario Community Newspapers

The Era, 23 Feb 2010, p. 13

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to fight it What should I do When you file the ticket with the court ask for a trial option 3 as opposed to first attendance with the prosecutor option 2 You should always request a trial date There is no chance that the ticket will be withdrawn at a first attendance Opportunities tor the charge to be withdrawn may however become available to you on a trial date COPPER To Advertise on this page contact your local Sales Representative by calling 9058538888 History rewritten in library basement Project preserving Newmarket Era newspapers from 1852 to 1977 BY TERESA LATCH FORD tlatchfordyrmgcom The Newmarket Public Library is taking steps to preserve the towns history and culture In a room in the librarys basement a team of is working 830 am to 9 pm five days a week to scan upload and index Newmarket Era newspapers from 1852 to 1977 The project will be completed by March 31 and will make the early editions available to anyone with access to an Internet connection eliminating the need to physically visit the library and manually scroll through microfilm I call us the digital scribes digital lab manager Bert Meerveld said Our first challenge was the micro films are not of the highest quality so we had to find first generation originals and negatives from multiple sources The team is indexing all editions Some missing pages were found at the Elman W Campbell Museum and will be photographed and added to the master index 16995 Yonge Street Unit Newmarket 1 9059541148 Looking through the old editions is very interesting Sometinies I have to pull people off the computers because they are reading the articles The microfilms are scanned with a specialized scanner purchased by the library for the project The greyscale images are first converted to a file that can processed and then quality control team members manipulate the image cropping straightening lightening the background and darkening the text to improve ease of reading The document is converted from an image to a text document a process known as optical character recognition using software to allow articles to become searchable in a database Indexing is a challenge since ft has to be done manually Mr Meerveld said The indexing is being done by taking headlines and captions of significant stories and slotting them into a program to make it searchable Full editions can also be found by searching the date Births deaths and marriages are also being indexed to help residents who wish to research their family trees Although the portal to the content slated to show up on the librarys website until March complet ed editions have been uploaded to Knowledge Ontario newsourontarioca newmarket Looking through the old editions is very interest ing Mr Meerveld said Sometimes I have to pull people off the computers because they are reading the articles As the team continues to learn throughout the pro cess all tasks and procedures are being documented so the project will eventually be able to be carried on by trained volunteers he added The project is one facet of the shared digital infra structure project a pilot program to share leading- edge technology and digital services between the library Newmarket Chamber of Commerce Southlake Regional Health Centre and the Town of Newmarket Each partner has contributed funds to the project but the main funding comes from the federal governments economic action plan program library board member and chamber vicepresident Karen Dubeau said The pilot project has created 55 jobs within the community

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