Treasure TROVE !
TROVE (from "Treasure Trove") is an Australian online library database service which stores documents, digital images, bibliographic data of newspapers, documents, websites, manuscripts, images. Hosted by the National Library of Australia it has over 70,000 daily users. TROVE continually adds new newspapers and more recent editions as they come out of copyright control. TROVE relies of members to assist in the correction of machine Optical Character Recognition (OCR). e.g. a newspaper report after OCR says "There ws a fire at D0ncyster" a volunteer editor notices it an corrects it to "There was a fire at Doncaster".I have personally corrected and contributed to TROVE newspaper stories many hundreds of times. Each correction improves the ability of users to search for "Doncaster". Before the correction, "D0ncyster" would not have been found in a search.TROVE needs our assistance to stay alive. Only recently, it was threatened with partial shut down due to funding limits. Please consider going online and completing the online petition at the Australian Parliament Website to support TROVE in it's request for increased funding.
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