Press Release
Le Temps Pioneers Swiss Market with a One of a Kind Newspaper Digitization Project
Free worldwide access bound to attract new audiences
Denver, Colorado, April 13, 2009 –Le Temps, the Swiss newspaper born in 1998 from the merger of three historical titles: Le Journal de Genève, la Gazette de Lausanne, and Le Nouveau Quotidien, selected Olive Software digitization and archival services to protect and ensure the long term preservation of its historically rich legacy.
Le Temps´ digitization project is the first full historical archive of a French language publically accessible newspaper in Switzerland. It is also unique as it represents a public partnership involving the Swiss National Library as well as the Geneva Library, and is supported, in part, by private fundraising.
“The aim of our digitization project is to give worldwide access to previously inaccessible content. The idea is to unlock our print heritage by providing unmatched search capabilities,” explained Virginie Fortun, Marketing Manager for Le Temps. “Our needs were unique. To satisfy the Swiss market, we wanted to provide the front end application in three different languages. We appreciate the fact that Olive made the redesign of the skin easily adaptable to our specific needs and expectations.”
Olive Software has digitized half a million pages, segmenting over 2 million articles in the first stage of the project. The initiative will grow to include an entire run of the publications dating back to 1798.
“We are proud to be affiliated with a preservation project of this historical magnitude and substance,” stated Dewayn Davis, President, Global Operations for Olive Software. “The collection will attract new audiences from around the world, including young readers and seasoned researchers. By offering them a fully text searchable replica of the print archive, Le Temps ensures both the longevity of its publication as well as its brand extension online.”
Olive provides preservation, digitization, and access solutions to educational institutions and leading libraries across the world, such as Princeton University, Washington Research Library Consortium, Kings College, University of Pennsylvania, Latvian National Library, and York University to name a few.
Browse Le Temps legacy archive by visiting www.letempsarchives.ch.
About Le Temps
Founded in 1998, Le Temps is a Swiss quality paper published in French and distributed throughout Switzerland. Its main editorial focuses are Economy & Finance, Culture and Politics. Le Temps also produces content for various electronic supports with the same quality requirement and editorial independence as in the print edition. Le Temps counts 141,000 readers, circulation reaches 45,883 copies (REMP certified figures) within 87% come from subscriptions and 13% from daily sales. The web site http://letemps.ch represents 4.5 millions page views, 930,000 visits and 235,000 unique clients (NET-Metrix-Audit 2009).
www.letempsarchives.ch
About Olive Software
Olive Software (www.olivesoftware.com) is the leading provider of digital edition and digital archiving solutions for the publishing industry with more than 250 publishers and 650 titles worldwide. Olive´s solutions enable newspapers, magazines and other content publishers to cut printing and distribution costs, boost online traffic, and create new markets and revenue streams.
Media Contacts
Sasha Frey
Marketing Director, Olive Software
+1 720.747.1220
sashaf@olivesoftware.com
Virginie Fortun
Marketing Manager, Le Temps
+41 22 799 58 09
virginie.fortun@letemps.ch