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One of the challenges in building a wider newspaper collection or to contribute to an existing collection is to balance various sets of metadata. In homogenising the metadata for a platform, a great deal of mapping and transformation is involved. Despite these efforts, the quality and the depth of contextualisation... [Read More]

One of our hopes for 2030 is to help empower users to unlock the full potential of digitised collections through a knowledge of—and confidence in using—a wider range of tools and approaches. We know that users come to these collections with different disciplinary backgrounds, interests, experiences, and skill sets. How... [Read More]

Although The Waterloo Directory offers a valuable index of names, it is striking that there has been, arguably, greater interest in identifying individual authorship in Victorian periodicals than in newspapers. This is evident in the scope of leading projects like The Wellesley Index, which identifies authors across forty-five Victorian periodicals,... [Read More]

Are you an archivist or librarian in the GLAM sector interested in how large national collections are structured, or a software engineer developing new ways of working with largescale collections and big data? Are you a researcher working with digitised newspapers? [Read More]

As part of the Oceanic Exchanges ‘Ontologies’ work package, Dr M. H. Beals and Dr Emily Bell led a six-nation project exploring the histories, structures and future of digitised newspaper collections around the world. [Read More]