News and Updates

The face of the newspaper has changed substantially over time, and also varies widely between publications. We take for granted that modern newspapers have image-laden spreads on the front cover, including attention-grabbing headlines with a particular kind of truncated grammar. Although tabloid newspapers are often parodied for the tone and... [Read More]

In our last, we discussed the possibilities and initial efforts made by librarians and other collection holders to provide access, and in some cases even integrate, existing newspaper indices into digitised newspaper collections. These historical ontologies—systems of categorisation and structures of knowledge—were constructed by individuals who maintained a certain claim... [Read More]

In our last, we spoke of the seemingly unnecessary loss of ontological information that occurred as we moved from analogue newspaper indices to digital full-text searching. In this week’s blog, we aim to discuss some of the ameliorations that do or could exist. [Read More]

When a user approaches a newspaper collection, they usually have three principal means of retrieving the information they want: browsing individual issues, jumping to a relevant article by means of an index, or searching the full text of the collection. Considering the material and archival histories of these objects, it... [Read More]

The complexity of Optical Character Recognition as a problem isn’t always fully understood by users. In 1999, Stephen V. Rice, George Nagy and Thomas A. Nartker offered an illustrated guide to OCR that suggested “A seven year old child can identify characters with far greater accuracy than the leading OCR... [Read More]