News and Updates

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]

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]