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I can't speak for the situation at the NYT but the actual public site for online papers are often pretty simple things with most of the complexity being ad logi
by weego 9y ago
I can't speak for the situation at the NYT but the actual public site for online papers are often pretty simple things with most of the complexity being ad logic. The systems here almost entirely deal with writing and content retrieval pipelines for stuff that was written years ago in other systems that isn't tagged or stored in sympathetic ways, and there will also be the very old school print pipeline to have to deal with too.
- manigandham 9y agoHow much time/effort does it take to just update all this old stuff once and for all?
- dangayle 9y agoLiterally teams of interns manually re-typing old articles from microfilm. OCR isn't quite there yet, not for dealing with the ways newspapers and newspaper design has changed over the years. You'd get the text, but there would be no guarantees that it that story bylines, headlines, factboxes, and photos match. Our own digital archives go back to 1994, anything before that is manual input.