Vietnam-Information Newsletter Corpus

The Vietnam-Information newsletters were a series of publications directed at the international community made by the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from the 1940s to the mid 1950s. The rare english-language booklets are each around 10 pages long and the Institute of East Asian Studies at ENS-Lyon (IAO) has the largest surviving collection, though the originals are now very fragile.

Maison des Sciences de l'Homme support has enabled hi-resolution digitization of the newsletters, preserving them and making them accessible to scholars. They are delivered here via an Invenio repository which supports research workflows using WADM annotation. Annotation already conducted in a collaboration with Hesburgh Libraries, Notre Dame, Indiana, has already identified issue metadata and transcribed tables of contents. As a result, the corpus can be searched by year and issue number, and work in progress will use the ToC data, which can currently be viewed in Mirador, to implement searching by article and subject.