Great interview about an important project.  Congratulations to everyone
involved.   Great promotion too for the archives and the significance of
the work you do.

Iona McCraith
Heritage Consultant
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On Fri, 14 Oct 2022 at 14:36, Brian Masschaele <
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> Hello everybody,
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> Elgin County Archives received some great coverage for our newspaper
> digitization project today on CBC’s London Morning radio program.  What is
> really great about this project is the success we have had with OCR over
> the newspapers to generate key word search results that can now be batched
> with other records related to the same search.   Gina Dewaele represented
> us well in this piece!
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> You can listen to the interview here
> <https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-158-london-morning> under the
> clip “Preserving the past”.
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> There is also an article about the project that you can access here
> <https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/curious-about-the-news-in-1853-elgin-county-archivists-are-putting-it-online-1.6615366>
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> *Brian Masschaele*)
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> Director of Community and Cultural Services
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