Toward a metadata standard for digitized historical newspapers Ray L. Murray   View Paper (PDF)   Return to Digital libraries and cyberinfastructure track: creating information representations for the humanities (part 2) Abstract This paper is a case study of metadata development in the early stages of the National Digital Newspaper Program, a twenty-year digital initiative to expand access to historical newspapers in support of research and education. Some of the issues involved in newspaper metadata are examined, and a new XML-based standard is described that is suited to the large volume of data, while remaining flexible into the future. ©2006 Association for Computing Machinery