NPL Digitization Lab Technical Issues

January 1, 1864 issue is missing from the microfilm

Newmarket Era
1880 February 6
Pages 3 and 4 are the same.

Newmarket Era
1879 October 17
Pages 2 and 3 are the same.

=katherine=

1876 has been uploaded and ready for indexing

newmarket_era_1874_11_13_040_05 is not uploaded to OurOntario.

Trisha

Ready for indexing:

Express Herald - Aug-Dec 1940
North York Sentinel - Feb-Nov 1856
Newmarket Courier - May 1874-Mar 1875
Newmarket Eera - 1874-1875

Newmarket Era
newmarket_era_1874_02_13_001_03.png
and
newmarket_era_1874_02_13_001_04.png
are the same.

=katherine=

the_new_era_1860_01_27_050_03 and _04 are the same.

I believe that _03 is a duplicate of _04

the_new_era_1859_12_16_044_04 is a duplicate of page 3.

the_new_era_1859_10_28_037_03 is a duplicate of page 2.

Sorry, that's supposed to be 1859, not 1959.

new_era_1859_09_23_032_04

New_era_1959_09_23_032_04 is missing from OurOntario.

Says thumbnail missing, but the image is in our pngs folder.

Trisha

newmarket_era_and_express_1949_08_18_033_10 is a duplicate of page 9.

New Era, December 16, 1859 > Page 3 duplicated as pages 3 and 4.

=Katherine=

Page 12 of the newmarket era and express issue April 7, 1949 is missing. Instead page 11 is repeated.

Page 8 missing from newmarket_era_1925_02_13_003

Pages 3 and 4 are missing from newmarket_era_1925_01_30_001.

Missing pages

newmarket_era_1923_01_26_001

- pages 1, 2, 5, 6 missing

- SF

Issue: August 20, 1858 has been edited and is ready to upload.

Andrea

Issue: August 20, 1858

This issue is missing png files, but is scanned in master files.
Issue needs to be uploaded to Our Ontario once png's are available.

=Katherine=

Missing Pages

newmarket_era_1920_07_23_026

pg 6 missing

SF

January 28, 1881 iss. 52, page 3 has been rescanned and placed in the master files/converted/1881 folder.

I labelled it rescan.

Sarah

1881, Newmarket Era, January 28, No. 52
page #3 needs re-scan.

The article "History re-written in library basement" published in Era Banner on Feb 23, 2010 is available as Pdf file on DLAB/documentation folder. Download and enjoy!

Sergey

Missing Pages

newmarket_era_1919_06_07_019

pages 7,8 missing

-SF

The August 12, 1948 issue of the Newmarket Era and Express was not uploaded to Knowledge Ontario.

Pages 5-6 missing from the January 10, 1913 issue.

page 8 missing from March 29, 1912 issue.

MISSING PAGES

re: newmarket_era_1912_01_19
- pages 1 - 3 missing

-sf

Page 4 from February 4, 1859 is missing.

Sergey

Newmarket Era April 7, 1899 - pages 1 & 2 are missing
Newmarket Era August 4, 1899 - page 8 is missing
August 18, 1899 - pages 3 & 4 are missing

For complete inventory of issues and pages for early years, please, refer to reel-inventory-2010-01-08.xls file in Missing pages and issues folder.

Sergey

October 13, 1955 - page 5 (Newmarket_era_and_express_1955_10_13_041_05) is a duplicate of page 6. Please re-scan page 5.

Andrea

Corrupted pages of 1868 Newmarket Courier have been rescanned and placed in master files/Scanning process/1868 Re-scan folder. Please process them and move TIFF and PNG files in appropriate folder.

Sergey

Issue: December 7, 1944

Page 3 is duplicated as pages 3 and 4.
Page 4 has been scanned in master files, but needs to go through quality control.

=Katherine=

newmarket_era_and_express_1944_05_15_016_06 has been through quality control and is ready to upload.

Andrea

Attention quality control:

The quality of issue "the_new_era_1858_08_20_027" is too poor for uploading and has been moved to the re-scan folder as a result.

Thank you

Page 6 from 18 May 1944 issue needs to be converted to PNG. Page 5 was converted twice and saved as page 5 and 6.

Newmarket_era_and_express_1944_02_017_003_04 has gone through quality control and is ready to upload.

Andrea

Issue: February 17, 1944

In upload files-png folder, page 3 is duplicated as pages 3 and 4.
Page 4 has been scanned and is in master files folder, needs to go through quality control.

In Our Ontario, page 8 is uploaded as page 4.

=Katherine=

newmarket_era_and_express_1955_04_14_015_02 has been through quality control and is ready to be uploaded.

Andrea

Page two for April 14, 1955 has been rescanned and saved in the master files.

It needs to go through quality control.

Sarah

January 25, 1901, pages 1 & 2

April 14, 1955 - Issue 15, page 1 (newmarket_era_and_express_1955_04_14_015_01) was duplicated as page 1 and 2.

Please check the roll to see if there is a page 2 on the film.

Thanks,

Andrea

For those who will be indexing at home on Mondays or over the weekend, please make sure you check out the issues you will work on prior to going home on Fridays.

Index at home using the Excel worksheets.

When you come back on Tuesday, save your Excel file in the "Indexed_at_Home" folder found in the Indexing folder of DLAB.
Check in those issues you have finished indexing.

I will go over your Excel files and import the indexes to the Access database.

If you have any questions, please leave a comment in this post.

Thank you.

=Katherine=

newmarket_era_1894_10_05_037_02 is missing.

Pages 1-4 missing from issue: newmarket_era_1898_02_11_004.

Pages 1&2 missing from issue: newmarket_era_1898_01_21_001
Pages 1&2 missing from issue: newmarket_era_1898_01_28_002

Missing: newmarket_era_1893_11_24_044_02
newmarket_era_1893_12_15_047_04
newmarket_era_1894_01_26_001_03 & 04
newmarket_era_1894_02_02_002_01 & 02

Please use the gamma feature in place of the brightness scale, as it produces better results for the older papers. Setting Scanner -> More -> Postive, Custom, Factor: (2.5-4.0), select Erase Notch
Thank you

I have changed the folders and files in the 1800s that had been labeled as the_newmarket_era, and replaced it with newmarket_era to maintain the consistency set by the 1930-1942 issues, labeled as newmarket_era. Please refrain from applying "the" for further issues.

-Adam

Page 4 from newmarket_era_1893_08_11

Pages 3 & 4 are missing from Jan. 15, 1897.

newmarket_era_1894_01_15_052_03
newmarket_era_1894_01_15_052_04

1892
January 15: 3&4
January 22: 3&4
January 29: 3&4
February 5: 4
-Adam

Issues missing between Jan. 13th to Jan. 27th 1888.

Kham

the_newmarket_era_1890_01_24_001 missing.

April 21, 1933 Page 2 (1933_04_21_012_02)

and

February 11, 1957 (1954_02_11_006_04)

have been QCed and are ready to upload.

April 21, 1933 page 2 (1933_04_21_012_02)

and

February 11, 1954 page 4 (1954_02_11_006_04)

which were duplicated have been rescanned and need to go through quality control.

Sarah

the_newmarket_era Missing Issues from Jan 22 1886 to February 12 1886.


Kham

newmarket_era_1933_03_10_006_08 has been through quality control. Ready to upload.

Andrea

Pages 1 and 2 are missing from Jan 25, 1884 issue.

"Newmarket_era_and_express_1954_02_11_006_04" is a duplicate of page 3 in the png conversions file. Could someone please review the roll for 1954 to see if the real page 4 is there or if it is in fact missing.

Newmarket Era, April 21, 1933, page 1 duplicated as pages 1 and 2.

=Katherine=

newmarket_era_1933_03_10_006_08 has been scanned and needs to go through quality control.

the issue newmarket_era_and_express_1946_09_12_033 is missing from the microfilm.

the newmarket era and express 1946_05_30_018_03 and 04 are missing from the microfilm.

Pgs. 8 and 12 for "newmarket_era_and_express_1946_05_02_014"

Issues missing between January 23, 1947 to June 9 1965.

newmarket_era_and_express_1946_04_025(?)_013

"newmarket_era_and_express_1945_02_02_001" stops at page 2 on the positive microfilm.

Regarding Reel 54:

Issues for the year 1942 stop after May 21st. Please note that the box incorrectly identifies the last issue as being May 28th.

Users of this reel should also note that it includes an issue from 1945 (Feb 1) and several issues from 1946 (21 Feb 1946 to 10 Oct 1946).

express_herald_1942_04_02_014_08

Missing issue
The New Era, January 25, 1861, issue 50, namely, the_new_era_1861_01_25_050

Newmarket Era, March 10, 1933, page 8 missing.

=Katherine

Re-scanned 02/03/1933, quality control will need to process the image.

The New Era, February 12 + 19, 1858 "Issues not published"

I've updated the names of the png files in the upload files-png folder for:

newmarket_era_and_express_1952_09_18_038

Sarah

newmarket_era_and_express_1952_09_18_038_12 is actually the page that is missing. I have renumbered the tif master files by changing page 13 to 14 and 12 to 13, so there is no longer a page 12.

The png files still need to be renamed and a 'missing page' inserted.

Sarah

Missing Page/Tif. file

Page # 14 for "newmarket_era_and_express_1952_09_18_038"

Nov. 14, 1856 iss. 41 is missing from the microfilm.

the_new_era_1856_11_14_041

Page 6 of Newmarket Era February 3, 1933 is duplicated as pages 6 and 7.

=Katherine=

The New Era, October 12, 1855
The New Era, November 2, 1855

January 5, 1855 (New Era) missing.

September 29, 1854 (of The New Era) is missing.

Issues between January 5, 1854 to September 22, 1854 are missing. (For The New Era)

For the New Era aside from September 3 issue the entirity of 1852 is missing. Also the entirity of 1853 is missing.

For the Noth York Reformer we only have issues Sep 8 ,1876 and Nov 19, 1880. Everything else is missing.

Issues missing between July 14, 1870 to September 22 1870 for Newmarket Courier.

Issues of the Newmarket Courier missing between May 28, 1874 and March 11, 1876.

Issues between October 23, 1873 to May 28, 1874 of the Newmarket Courier are missing.

Issues between September 18, 1873 to October 23, 1873 of the Newmarket Courier missing.

Issues between July 30, 1873 to September 18, 1873 of the Newmarket Courier missing.

Issues between September 22, 1870 to Febuary 27, 1873 of the Newmarket Courier missing.

Issues between July 14, 1870 to September 22, 1870 of the Newmarket Courier missing.

June 16, 1870 Newmarket Courier missing.

For the additional rolls, Rolls 47 & 48, we will use the following naming conventions.
For the Aurora-King edition, use: the_era_ak_1977_mm_dd_issue_pg
For the South Shore edition, use: the_era_ss_1977_mm_dd_issue_pg
We will not scan any duplicate pages, so simply check through the existing pages.
We're almost done the negatives!
Adam

P.S. I will scan in the 01/12 issue that is missing from the Newmarket edition.

August 26, 1932: P. 4 was duplicated as p.5, page 5 has been scanned in and saved in appropriate folder. Will need to be run through quality control.
-Adam

Pages 4 and 5 are duplicated for the August 26, 1932 issue of Newmarket Era. Page 4 is labelled as both page 4 and 5 in the upload_png and master files.

=Katherine=

Issue
the_era_1975_12_23_051; pages 10 & 11

Issue 2 for Jan. 12, 1977 is missing for the Era. (Newmarket/EG edition). We'll have to see if this issue exists for the South Shore or Aurora King editions.

January 22, 1932, page 8 has been scanned in and saved in the appropriate folder. It will need to be run through quality control.
Adam

For January 22, 1932, issue 51 pages 7 and 8 were duplicated. I'm not sure if the page that was scanned is 7 or 8 but we need to verify if one is missing.

Page 15 is missing from issue July 23 1975.

Pages 7, 8, 9 and 10 are missing from July 9 1975 issue.

Page 3 is missing from microfilm - August 19, 1937.

Sergey

Please note: the August 19, 1937 issue has two page 4 scanned in. The microfilm should be checked for page 3 and if there, this page needs to be scanned in. The issue will have to be re-uploaded.

C03 and C04 are missing from this issue:
the_era_1975_02_19_007

Adam, please clean scanners first thing in the morning

Sergey

Pages 7 and 8 are missing from microfilm, issue December 26, 1973

Sergey

1975 February 19, Page C-3 and C-4 are missing

pages 25 and 26 are missing from the microfilm for November 21, 1973.

Pages B04 and B05 are missing from issue 11-22-72.

Pages 7 and 8 missing from issue 10-25-1972.

Pages 23-26, and 29-34 are missing from June 27, 1973.
-Adam

Pages 23, and 24 are missing from the microfilm for April 4, 1973.

Pages 17 & 18 are missing from the_era_1972_05_31_022
-Adam

The pattern described below repeats for March 21, 1973, March 28, 1973, April 4, 1973. There are three first and second pages.
The same naming convention was followed.

For March 7, 1973 there were three different versions of the first and second pages printed for different geographic areas.

They were Newmarket, Aurora-King, and South Shore. I named them pages 01, 02 and 01B, 02B, 01C, 02C respectively.

Sarah

Pages 25 and 26 are missing from the_era_1970_06_17_24.

Effective immediately.
As per our conversation with Johnathan, we have agreed to create only one OCR file for each page. File names stay the same with txt extension.

Sergey

There are four/eight? missing pages from the advertising insert on August 27, 1969, iss. 34.

the pages would be:
the_era_1969_08_27_034_B05_B12
the_era_1969_08_27_034_B06_B11
the_era_1969_08_27_034_B07_B10
the_era_1969_08_27_034_B08_B09

The 300-II had auto-brightness selected this morning. Please check the scanner settings when you begin to ensure that the correct settings are in place. For quality control purposes, auto brightness is not effective. As well, it is easier to lighten the image in Photoshop, than it is to darken it. The appropriate brightness levels vary on the machines.

The short lived "The Era and Post" reverts back to "The Era" in January 1968.
Adam

Pages 12 and 13 are missing from issue 3 July 1968

Sergey

the_era_1969_04_09_014

The following pages are missing:

the_era_1969_04_16_015_B03_B10
the_era_1969_04_16_015_B04_B09
the_era_1969_04_16_015_B05_B08
the_era_1969_04_16_015_B06_B07

Page 11 and 12 are missing from March 12 1969 issue.

Pages 21 and 22 for May 15, 1968 are missing from the mircrofilm.

Pages 1-4 are missing from the Jan 4, 1968 issue.

September 20, 1967 has a first and second section and an insert. For the sake of clarity and since the pagination is continuous throughout both sections I did not distinguish between the sections in the file names. They are simply numbered 01 through 28.

The insert was named B01_B12 etc.

This is a change from our previous method of naming the first section A and the second section B whether pagination changed or not.

Sarah

On June 7, 1967 the name changed to "the Era and Post"

1933 has been uploaded and is ready for indexing.

Sergey

The name of the paper changed on October 20, 1965 to "the Era".

Going forward, assume that the issue numbers post-1965 are on the top left of the editorial page, which "should" be on page 4. This could differ.
-Adam

On March 17 1965 a second issue was published titled the "1965 Industrial and Commercial Review and Forecast". It was never given an issue number and the issue numbering continues as if it does not exist. It is clearly not a supplemental section of the numbered issue.

For our purposes we decided to name it the same as the regular issue published that day and add a letter to distinguish it.

. . . 1965_03_17_012
. . . 1965_03_17_012A

1965 begins on the microfilm with issue no. 2 on Jan. 6. Because 1964 ended on Dec. 22 with issue 52 it is suspected that there is a missing issue between these two. Although the exact date is unknown we are assuming that it is issue no.1 for 1965.

Current indexing files for all indexers, the master index, and the indexing templates have been updated with formulas to automatically create and enter the image file name in the "Image" field.

You no longer have to copy and paste the image file name onto the Excel worksheets. When you record the page number and publication date for an article or BMD record, the formula will generate and input the image file name in the "Image" field. The formula exists in the article and BMD worksheets.

If you see an error message (e.g., "#N/A"), it could be because the publication date you entered does not correspond to any image file names (i.e., that date does not have an issue). Also, if the date is not in the correct format it may not be identified by the formula and an error message will appear.

Please do not change the formulas or the date field's cell formatting to avoid errors.

Thank you!

=Katherine=

The Nov 1, 1962 issue had 18 regular pages and then a supplemental cookbook at the end (numbered 1-20). For file naming, the cookbook section is: newmarket_era_and_express_1962_11_01_044_A01
(Newmarket Era and Express, Issue 44, Section A, page 1)

On the microfilm, the cookbook had two pages for every 1. I used the framing feature to scan each individual page, so the file sizes are about half as big (4000 kb)

Julia

Pages 1 and 2, March 28, 1963 are missing from microfilm.

Sergey

Missing Page:

newmarket_era_and_express_1962_04_05_014_03

I have created a master file to keep track of all of the missing page and issues. It is saved in S:\DLAB. The spreadsheet has a record of everything that is on microfilm and everything that is missing. There are still gaps that need to be filled in on the spreadsheet (i.e specific issue numbers for issues that haven't been scanned yet), but if you come across a missing page or issue, you can consult this spreadsheet.

Thanks,

Julia

I discovered this morning that some of the boxes did not have the corresponding roll of film in them. 1962 had 1964 in it, and other years on the shelf were also problematic. I will rename the mislabeled files this afternoon. Please be careful that you have the correct date/issue in place, as the scanning file name carries throughout our entire process.
-Adam