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Veridian is a digital library software platform, designed primarily for large-scale newspaper digitization projects. It was created to enable libraries and cultural heritage institutions to provide the public with online search, discovery, and display of digitized newspaper collections.

Veridian software has implemented many large newspaper digitization projects at institutions including the National Library of Israel, National Library of Singapore, National Library of Estonia and the National Library of New Zealand, as well as projects for this US National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) in California, Virginia, Indiana, Illinois, Colorado, and Michigan.

The Veridian platform is also used by the American Foundation for the Blind to display a fully accessible digital collection from the archive of Helen Keller.

Veridian meets Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) as specified by the Library of Congress.

Key features of Veridian include:


 * Scalability to very large projects
 * It is based on METS/ALTO digital objects
 * Veridian sites may be customized to represent the collection owner
 * Crowdsourcing, patron engagement, and social media features
 * Access Rules allow specific content and/or features to be restricted to specific users
 * Search Engine Optimization of collections
 * Support for Google Analytics, to enable tracking and reporting on visitors an online digital collection
 * Veridian APIs: OAI-PMH, XML and Web Services
 * Compliance with web accessibility guidelines
 * Veridian collections can be viewed from all modern desktop and mobile platforms and web browsers — Windows, Mac OS X, Apple iOS devices (iPhones, iPads, and iPods), Android mobile devices, etc.

Veridian software also powers Elephind.com, a newspaper search engine for historical newspapers around the world. Elephind.com consists of more than 149 million searchable items from more than 2,700 historical newspaper titles and it continues to grow.

History
Veridian software was created by the company DL Consulting which is located in Hamilton, New Zealand.

DL Consulting was founded by Stefan Boddie who began working with digital library software applications in 1997 as a Software Engineer for the New Zealand Digital Library research project at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand. That project was responsible for the creation of the open source Greenstone digital library software.

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