This page contains information on the data of De Danske Aviser, and its representation and data model in MiniDOMS.

Below, the first draft of the data model.

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The data model loosely follows the structure of the original publication. As such it is divided into a number of volumes (based on period).

Each Volume is divided as

• Region
• Town
• Paper
• Page
• .png

These divisions loosely follow those of the original publication.

• Each page in the original publication has been digitalized as a .png file, found in the bit storage, and associated with a page object. These must be connected to each the former and the previous page.
• Each paper has an entry covering one or more pages and refers to the first page of the entry.
• The Region object may seem irrelevant, but references a few pages containing information on the specific area during the relevant period.

Similarly each Volume contains a few pages dealing with subject relevant to newspaper publication on a national basis.