Digitised Newspapers – A New Eldorado for Historians?: Reflections on Tools, Methods and Epistemology

book: Digitised Newspapers – A New Eldorado for Historians?

Open Access Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2023

Digitised Newspapers – A New Eldorado for Historians?

Reflections on Tools, Methods and Epistemology

Edited by: Estelle Bunout , Maud Ehrmann and Frédéric Clavert
Funded by: University of Luxembourg

Volume 3 in the series Studies in Digital History and Hermeneutics

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110729214

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The application of digital technologies to historical newspapers has changed the research landscape historians were used to. An Eldorado? Despite undeniable advantages, the new digital affordance of historical newspapers also transforms research practices and confronts historians with new challenges. Drawing on a growing community of practices, the impresso project invited scholars experienced with digitised newspaper collections with the aim of encouraging a discussion on heuristics, source criticism and interpretation of digitized newspapers.

This volume provides a snapshot of current research on the subject and offers three perspectives: how digitisation is transforming access to and exploration of historical newspaper collections; how automatic content processing allows for the creation of new layers of information; and, finally, what analyses this enhanced material opens up.

‘impresso - Media Monitoring of the Past’ is an interdisciplinary research project that applies text mining tools to digitised historical newspapers and integrates the resulting data into historical research workflows by means of a newly developed user interface. The question of how best to adapt text mining tools and their use by humanities researchers is at the heart of the impresso enterprise.

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Estelle Bunout and Frédéric Clavert, C2DH, Luxembourg University, Esch-sur-Alzette; Maud Ehrmann, DHLAB, EPFL, Lausanne, Suisse.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Digitised Historical Newspapers: A Changing Research Landscape Maud Ehrmann, Estelle Bunout and Frédéric Clavert Open Access Download PDF	1
The Allure of Digitised Newspapers: Prospecting the Eldorado
Hunting for Treasure: Living with Machines and the British Library Newspaper Collection Giorgia Tolfo, Olivia Vane, Kaspar Beelen, Kasra Hosseini, Jon Lawrence, David Beavan and Katherine McDonough Open Access Download PDF	23
Mapping Texts: Examining the Effects of OCR Noise on Historical Newspaper Collections Andrew J. Torget Open Access Download PDF	47
Von der analogen Sammlung zur digitalen Forschungsinfrastruktur Irene Amstutz, Martin Reisacher and Elias Kreyenbühl Open Access Download PDF	67
Volltextoptimierung für die historische Wiener Zeitung Claudia Resch Open Access Download PDF	89
Feuilleter la presse ancienne par gigaoctets Claire-Lise Gaillard Open Access Download PDF	113
Tracing Discourses in Digital Newspaper Collections Sarah Oberbichler and Eva Pfanzelter Open Access Download PDF	125
Digitising and Presenting a Nazi Newspaper Christoph Hanzig, Martin Munke and Michael Thoß Open Access Download PDF	153
Des usages des collections numériques de presse pour écrire l’histoire du génocide des Tutsi du Rwanda François Robinet and Rémi Korman Open Access Download PDF	173
Unearthing New Artefacts: Digital Reshaping of Newspapers
Classified News Pierre-Carl Langlais Open Access Download PDF	193
Mining Historical Advertisements in Digitised Newspapers Melvin Wevers Open Access Download PDF	227
Towards an Ontology and Epistemology of Text Reuse Petri Paju, Heli Rantala and Hannu Salmi Open Access Download PDF	253
Mining Digitised Newspapers: Source Criticism and the Making of (Digital) History
Contextualising Queries: Guidance for Research using Current Collections of Digitised Newspapers Estelle Bunout Open Access Download PDF	275
Kulturgeschichte der Popularisierung von Börsennachrichten in Wien (1771–1914) Monika Kovarova-Simecek Open Access Download PDF	301
Analyser un processus mémoriel au travers des archives de presse numérisées et physiques Malorie Guilbaud Perez Open Access Download PDF	335
A Source Like Any Other? Zoé Kergomard Open Access Download PDF	359
The Crimes of Preachers: Religion, Scandal, and the Trouble with Digitised Archives Suzanna Krivulskaya Open Access Download PDF	379
Korrespondentenberichte im Journal de Genève und ihre sprachlichen Muster Tobias von Waldkirch Open Access Download PDF	395
The Transformation of ‘the Political’ in Post-War Sweden Fredrik Norén, Johan Jarlbrink, Alexandra Borg, Erik Edoff and Måns Magnusson Open Access Download PDF	411
List of Contributors Open Access Download PDF	437

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Audience: Scholars of digital history, digital humanities, history, science and technology studies
Pages
- Front matter: 7
- Main content: 439
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 31
- Coloured Illustrations: 74
Keywords: digital history; digitized newspapers; digital source criticism; history research practices

eBook

Published: December 31, 2022
ISBN: 9783110729214

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Published: December 31, 2022
ISBN: 9783110729719