Today "The Dawn" is available to all through the National Library of Australia's Trove search tool.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title252
You can download whole PDFs of each issue, but you can also browse article by article. You can copy and paste citations in a range of formats, including one for wikipedia!
And you can help improve the text!
The process used to #digitisethedawn involved scanning original copies of the print publication. Then running the images that created through Optical Character Recognition software, or OCR. This means a computer 'reads' the image, and converts it into text. It does a pretty good job, if the quality of the original material is high. But it's not perfect. Common mistakes it makes include confusing an i for an l, or thinking cl is a d.
You can help!
While you're browsing The Dawn online on Trove - if you see errors in the text you can fix them!
Check out these guides to using Trove, and help us improve the text of The Dawn!
http://www.youtube.com/user/TroveNLA
http://trove.nla.gov.au/general/participating-in-digitised-newspapers-faq
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