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FORUM 0. Media Type Media Type. Year Year. Collection Collection. Creator Creator. We wanted to present the archive in all its glory as it was meant to be consumed on the day it was printed — one issue at a time. Our goal was to create a fluid viewing experience, not to force users to slowly download high resolution images. Our digitized print archive is big, containing terabytes of high-resolution page scans. Even for a single issue, the storage requirements are appreciable.
When we built TimesMachine, we knew that there was no way we could expect users to sit through multi-hundred-megabyte downloads in order to browse a single issue. We needed a way to load just the parts of an issue that a user is looking at. We found an answer from a somewhat unexpected quarter and now, when you load that megabyte Lindbergh issue in your browser, the initial page load requires the transmission of just a couple of megabytes.
We achieve this by using mapping software to display each issue. Like the pages of a scanned newspaper, a digital map is just a really big image. The technique most often used to display digital maps and the same technique we employ for TimesMachine is image tiling.
Clever software then runs in the browser and loads only those tiles that correspond to the region of the image the user wants to see. Numerous open source software libraries have been created to make and display such tiles we used GDAL for tile generation and leaflet. All we had to do was adapt these libraries to show you a newspaper. To do this we created a processing pipeline called The TimesMachine Publisher. For a given issue, the pipeline takes in three inputs: high-resolution scans of pages from microfilm, XML files of article metadata, and INI files describing the geometric boundaries of every article on every page.
The pipeline first stitches the pages together into one large virtual image. The coordinates of every article on every page are then projected from cartesian x, y coordinates into geographic latitude and longitude coordinates. These projected coordinates are combined with article metadata into a large JavaScript object describing the contents of a complete issue.
All of this data is uploaded to a content distribution network CDN. Additional data is loaded only when the user pans or zooms.
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