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Digital histories. Workshop 1: introduction K. Navickas. Searching for information and making notes before digitised sources. Dewey catalogue. County record office; Library; National Archives. My notes, organised by where I read the information, and their cataloguing system. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Searching for information and making notes before digitised sources
Dewey catalogue
Card catalogue
My notes, organised by where I read the information, and their cataloguing system
A bit of a gamble if I get what I want/looking for
Boxes of books & archives
County record office;Library;National Archives
Searching for information and making notes after digitisation – googlerisation?
Digitised archives and newspapers from all over the world
Download them to my own computerWrite notes on computer – or annotate files
Still a gamble to find what I want…
Catalogue system – online- could be determined by original order of the repository- could be completely new system- no system? – e.g. flickr collections – crowdsource tagging
What archives available dependent on what is digitised – dependent on funding, conservation; volunteers
Pay to access?
Metadata old style: Leonard Bloomfield, Language (New York: Holt, Rhinehart & Wilson,
1933)Document type Book
Last name of author Bloomfield
First name of author Leonard
Year of publication 1933
Title Language
City New York
Publisher Holt, Rhinehart & Wilson
http://exchanges.history-compass.com/2010/03/30/doing-local-history-card-catalogues-manual-searches-and-historiography/
FAQ for the Burney collection of 17th and 18th century newspapers
http://gdc.gale.com/products/17th-and-18th-century-burney-collection-newspapers/acquire-implement/faqs/#raw-text
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OCR text from the Burney newspaper collection – what on earth is it saying?
OCR is rubbish with tables and old fonts
Big data?• From ‘computing and history’ to data and text
mining, corpus linguistics, topic modelling• Are we moving from ‘close reading’ to ‘distant
reading’?Methods:• N-grams – finding the proportion of occurrence of
a word in a corpus of texts• Topic-modelling - assessing probability of
occurrence of a group of words within a textStudy:• ‘culturomics’