Normalizing digital news-stories for preservation

Preserving news stories may be important because of various reasons like they provide detailed information about events and they may be used for research purposes in the long term. However, the news stories published online are in danger because of reasons like constant change in the technologies used to publish information and the formats for publication. Certain institutions or individuals may be interested in preserving news stories related to a particular event or topic. The stories should be collected from various online newspapers and preserved for the long term. The major issue in the preservation process is that newspapers use different formats for online publication of the stories. The paper presents a tool which is developed to addresses the issue. The tool facilitates users in the extraction of news stories from various online newspapers and migration to a normalized format.