民初新聞報紙具有相當豐富的歷史研究價值，是瞭解當時政治、社會、經濟、生活型態等情形的絕佳工具，但是歷史性報紙體積龐大、紙張脆弱，不僅不易保存，也不易檢索，因此數位化便是使歷史性報紙重獲新生命的唯一途徑。
本文以世新大學北平「世界日報」數位化計畫為例，擬藉由實體原件品質、Metadata制訂與著錄、搜尋結果呈現等特質，探討民初新聞報紙數位化與現代報紙數位化不同之處。並針對民初新聞報紙數位化潛在的議題加以分析與建議。

The Early Republic newspapers are materials replete with valuable literature for historical study, since they may serve as useful resources for understanding the backgrounds of politics, society, economy, and lifestyle of the Early Republic. However, the Early Republic historical newspapers are usually large in page size and fragile in paper quality, which causes difficulties both in preservation and in information retrieval. To overcome the difficulties, digitization is a significant medium to refresh the values of historical newspapers.
This paper takes as an example the digitization project of Peiping’s “Shih Chieh Jih Pao” processed by Shih-Hsin University. Through an analysis of the quality of original physical materials, definition and formulation of metadata, and display modes of search results, this study attempts to reveal the different conditions of digitization between historical newspapers and modern newspapers. This paper also offers suggestions about potential issues and problems of the digitization of historical newspapers.