The Future of the Past: Modernizing the New York Times Archive

I think this is an obvious thing for NYT to do and it seems like this is one of the things they can leverage to get more subscriptions, since they obviously put it behind a paywall. I think it would be really interesting if they did something with the digitization of it all, like having another subscription where they offered reprints of different years, presumably only one at a time due to logistical problems.

It would also be really interesting to be able to see the different discussions in one publication about a topic and see how it may have evolved over the years.

These are the things that I think are going to be key to NYT and other publications moving forward, which seems more like story telling with archives, which is part of their resources compared to new publications and outlets.

We've done XML conversion projects for around 5,000 magazine titles. It's not an easy process to get high fidelity and preserve formatting.