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Collections come together over time; digital collections come out of physical collections. It would therefore be useful for metadata to include an archaeology of the document’s existence—in this case, that of the newspaper. The W3C’s provenance ontology PROV-O could be a starting point. [Read More]

Improving the user experience for adding metadata is key to enabling all interested parties, university-affiliated and otherwise, to contribute their expertise. Getting to this point will require the developers of tools to engage end-users as early as possible. Overview of User Needs Systems for interacting with metadata should be easy... [Read More]

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]