The Atlas of Digitised Newspapers and Metadata: Reports from Oceanic Exchanges

Beals, Melodee; Bell, Emily; Cordell, Ryan; Fyfe, Paul; Russell, Isabel Galina; Hauswedell, Tessa; Neudecker, Clemens; Nyhan, Julianne; Oiva, Mila; Pado, Sebastian; Pimentel, Miriam Peña; Rose, Lara; Salmi, Hannu; Terras, Melissa; Viola, Lorella

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“…Recent evaluation studies reported in International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition 2017 and 2019 (Clausner et al, 2017(Clausner et al, , 2019 show that especially state-of-the-art systems (commercial and open source) used many times by libraries in data production do not perform very well in page segmentation and region classification of complex layout document pages. Among the 10-digitized historical newspaper collections gathered in Beals and Bell (2020), some do have article extraction, but many do not have it. Article extraction in our study collection has been produced automatically based on a machine learning model and the quality of the result has not been assessed on a large scale, only with a small evaluation collection (cf.…”

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“…Since that several national libraries and other stakeholders, such as publishers, have produced and are currently producing more and more digitized historical content online out of their newspaper collections. In a recent publication describing in detail 10 different digitized historical newspaper collections, Beals and Bell (2020) state thatover the past thirty years, national libraries, universities and commercial publishers around the world have made available hundreds of millions of pages of historical newspapers through mass digitisation and currently release over one million new pages per month worldwide. These have become vital resources not only for academics but for journalists, politicians, schools, and the general public.…”

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Optical character recognition quality affects subjective user perception of historical newspaper clippings

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Kumpulainen

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PurposeThis study aims to identify user perception of different qualities of optical character recognition (OCR) in texts. The purpose of this paper is to study the effect of different quality OCR on users' subjective perception through an interactive information retrieval task with a collection of one digitized historical Finnish newspaper.Design/methodology/approachThis study is based on the simulated work task model used in interactive information retrieval. Thirty-two users made searches to an article collection of Finnish newspaper Uusi Suometar 1869–1918 which consists of ca. 1.45 million autosegmented articles. The article search database had two versions of each article with different quality OCR. Each user performed six pre-formulated and six self-formulated short queries and evaluated subjectively the top 10 results using a graded relevance scale of 0–3. Users were not informed about the OCR quality differences of the otherwise identical articles.FindingsThe main result of the study is that improved OCR quality affects subjective user perception of historical newspaper articles positively: higher relevance scores are given to better-quality texts.Originality/valueTo the best of the authors’ knowledge, this simulated interactive work task experiment is the first one showing empirically that users' subjective relevance assessments are affected by a change in the quality of an optically read text.

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Optical character recognition quality affects subjective user perception of historical newspaper clippings

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“…These projects are working toward collaborative and integrative approaches to get closer to the shared vision of “finding meaning” in digitized historical newspaper data. The Atlas of Digitized Newspapers (Beals & Bell, 2020 ), an open access guide prepared by leading computational periodicals researchers from six European countries, already made an important step toward facilitating more historically informed understandings of digitized newspapers for researchers across disciplines.…”

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Integrated interdisciplinary workflows for research on historical newspapers: Perspectives from humanities scholars, computer scientists, and librarians

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This article considers the interdisciplinary opportunities and challenges of working with digital cultural heritage, such as digitized historical newspapers, and proposes an integrated digital hermeneutics workflow to combine purely disciplinary research approaches from computer science, humanities, and library work. Common interests and motivations of the above-mentioned disciplines have resulted in interdisciplinary projects and collaborations such as the NewsEye project, which is working on novel solutions on how digital heritage data is (re)searched, accessed, used, and analyzed. We argue that collaborations of different disciplines can benefit from a good understanding of the workflows and traditions of each of the disciplines involved but must find integrated approaches to successfully exploit the full potential of digitized sources.The paper is furthermore providing an insight into digital tools, methods, and hermeneutics in action, showing that integrated interdisciplinary research needs to build something in between the disciplines while respecting and understanding each other's expertise and expectations.

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“…Beals and Bell (2020), The Atlas of Digitised Newspapers and Metadata reveals the variety of metadata available across ten different newspaper databases.…”

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Collaborative Historical Research in the Age of Big Data

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Griffin

Ridge

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Living with Machines is the largest digital humanities project ever funded in the UK. The project brought together a team of twenty-three researchers to leverage more than twenty-years' worth of digitisation projects in order to deepen our understanding of the impact of mechanisation on nineteenth-century Britain. In contrast to many previous digital humanities projects which have sought to create resources, the project was concerned to work with what was already there, which whilst straightforward in theory is complex in practice. This Element describes the efforts to do so. It outlines the challenges of establishing and managing a truly multidisciplinary digital humanities project in the complex landscape of cultural data in the UK and share what other projects seeking to undertake digital history projects can learn from the experience. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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The Atlas of Digitised Newspapers and Metadata: Reports from Oceanic Exchanges

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Optical character recognition quality affects subjective user perception of historical newspaper clippings

Optical character recognition quality affects subjective user perception of historical newspaper clippings

Integrated interdisciplinary workflows for research on historical newspapers: Perspectives from humanities scholars, computer scientists, and librarians

Collaborative Historical Research in the Age of Big Data

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