Blogger Brad recently asked over email where he could find copies of recent charts for races at a particular track from a few months ago. I suggested taking the old-school route and looking into seeing if a library had archives of The Daily Racing Form and I ended up discovering that while some libraries do archive the DRF, what was coming was better than I imagined.
The University of Kentucky and Keeneland are partnering to digitize the 10 million newspaper pages in 3,700 folio hardbound volumes of the DRF that Keeneland currently houses in its track library.
The 2-year pilot project will begin with Triple Crown coverage from the 111-year old archive and then will expand to the rest of the archive.
According to a UK press release:
The project, known as Partnering to Preserve Racing’s Rich History, will generate several products for the Keeneland Library:
-a keyword-searchable digital image archive of approximately 100,000 pages that meets the highest standards for preservation and access and that is accessible via the Kentuckiana Digital Library and the Keeneland Library Web site;
-long term storage and maintenance for the digital archive in a digital repository at UK Libraries; and,
-conservation treatment proposals for damaged DRF volumes and rehousing in archival enclosures for the fragile volumes.
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