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Conference paper (published)
MapReader: a computer vision pipeline for the semantic exploration of maps at scale
We present MapReader, a free, open-source software library written in Python for analyzing large map collections. MapReader allows users with little computer vision expertise to i) retrieve maps via web-servers; ii) preprocess and divide them into patches; iii) annotate patches; iv) train, fine-tune, and evaluate deep neural network models; and...Hosseini, Kasra ; Wilson, Daniel C. S. ; Beelen, Kaspar ; McDonough, Katherine
maps and ordnance survey
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Research report
Publishing updated version of ‘R for Newspaper Data’
My Living with Machines Digital Residency, which I carried out between May and July 2023, allowed me to update and publish an online book on accessing and analysing newspaper data. The goal of the book is to make available an end-to-end set of instructions and tutorials which would allow researchers,...Ryan, Yann Ciarán
digital humanities, Victorian, historical newspapers, and Living with Machines
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Research report
Circulations and Entangled History in 19th Century Chile
The Living with Machines Digital Residences have offered our research team a remarkable opportunity to experiment with methods for extracting data from historical newspapers dating back 100 to 150 years. This interdisciplinary project aims to expand the scope of digital humanities and historical research by developing automated techniques for data...Hayward, Jennifer ; Valenzuela, Gillian ; Shakib, Khandokar
digital humanities, historical newspapers, Living with Machines, and Victorian
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Research report
An Etiquette For Minor Time Travel
A report documenting the Living with Machines Digital Residency project called "An Etiquette for Minor Time Travel" by Robert Sherman. Via an open call and running from to July 2023, six Digital Residencies were funded by the Living with Machines project to support researchers and practitioners devising creative approaches to...Sherman, Robert
art, Living with Machines, Victorian, rail, data visualisation, digital humanities, and poetry
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Research report
Visualising press politics in the United Kingdom
This project's main goal, as outlined in the initial proposal, was to develop an interactive, open-source web app that visualizes data from the Press Directories dataset alongside historical general election results. In this report, I will delve into the challenges encountered, the interesting findings uncovered, and the potential avenues for...Bonato, Nicolò
historcial newspapers, digital humanities, Victorian, politics, data visualisation, and Living with Machines
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Research report
The Devils After the Fall
This is a report by Nicola Baldwin of a Digital Residency at Living With Machines, on the dataset: Crowdsourced accidents data from Newspapers, working in line with the LWM aims for Radical Collaboration, New Perspectives, Analysing at Scale. The following document is a personal account of work done, thoughts arising...Baldwin, Nicola
Living with Machines, accidents, Victorian, film, crowdsourcing, newspaper, and digital humanities
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Research report
UK Railway Archive (AR-UK)
Archive The Railway UK (AR-UK) is a comprehensive digital platform designed to enhance the online archives of the UK rail network. This initiative, developed in collaboration with Living with Machines, is primarily focused on research, historical preservation, and providing public access to railway history. As a centralized resource, it caters...Sheppard, Joanne
digital humanities, Victorian, rail, data visualisation, and Living with Machines
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Journal article
Working at scale: what do computational methods mean for research using cases, models and collections?
Open access, peer-reviewed article published in Science Museum Group Journal, as part of a double-length special issue for the AHRC TaNC discovery project, 'Congruence Engine'. The article gives a critical overview of how 'scale' operates as a keyword within computational humanities as well as reviewing a number of cognate fields,...Wilson, Daniel C S
machine learning, AI for GLAM, STS, scale, computational humanities, history, and congruence engine
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Dataset
OCR and crowdsourced annotations, Language of Mechanisation, JSON files
Datasets created through crowdsourcing tasks created on the Zooniverse crowdsourcing platform by the Living with Machines ‘language of mechanisation’ project team. Building on earlier work classifying machines by function, we asked volunteers on Zooniverse 'how did the word x change over time and place?' and presented them with options for... -
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Language of Mechanisation: annotated historical newspaper articles
Datasets created through crowdsourcing tasks created on the Zooniverse crowdsourcing platform by the Living with Machines ‘language of mechanisation’ project team. Building on earlier work classifying machines by function, we asked volunteers on Zooniverse 'how did the word x change over time and place?' and presented them with options for... -
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Living-with-machines/MapReader: End of LwM
This release marks the end of the current funding for MapReader during the Living with Machines (LwM) project. @kasra-hosseini @andrewphilipsmith @rwood-97 @kmcdono2 @dcsw2 @kallewesterling @kasparvonbeelenHosseini, Kasra ; Wood, Rosie ; Smith, Andy ; McDonough, Katie ; Wilson, Daniel C. S. …
computer vision and maps
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Other
Models for MapReader ACM SIGSPATIAL 2023 Geohumanities Workshop paper
Collection of fine-tuned models created during research published in Kasra Hosseini, Daniel C. S. Wilson, Kaspar Beelen, and Katherine McDonough. 2022. MapReader: a computer vision pipeline for the semantic exploration of maps at scale. In Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities (GeoHumanities '22). Association for...Hosseini, Kasra ; Beelen, Kaspar ; McDonough, Katherine ; Wilson, Daniel C. S.
computational humanities, computer vision, maps, models, and image classification
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Learning object
Computer Vision for the Humanities: An Introduction to Deep Learning for Image Classification (Part 2)
This is the second of a two-part lesson introducing deep learning based computer vision methods for humanities research. This lesson digs deeper into the details of training a deep learning based computer vision model. It covers some challenges one may face due to the training data used and the importance...Strien, Daniel van ; Beelen, Kaspar ; Wevers, Melvin ; Smits, Thomas ; McDonough, Katherine
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Learning object
Computer Vision for the Humanities: An Introduction to Deep Learning for Image Classification (Part 1)
This is the first of a two-part lesson introducing deep learning based computer vision methods for humanities research. Using a dataset of historical newspaper advertisements and the fastai Python library, the lesson walks through the pipeline of training a computer vision model to perform image classification.Strien, Daniel van ; Beelen, Kaspar ; Wevers, Melvin ; Smits, Thomas ; McDonough, Katherine
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Diachronic word embeddings from 19th-century newspapers digitised by the British Library (1800-1919)
Word vectors related to the paper "Machines in the media: semantic change in the lexicon of mechanization in 19th-century British newspapers" by Nilo Pedrazzini and Barbara McGillivray (2022). The embeddings were trained on a 4.2-billion-word corpus of 19th-century British newspapers using Word2Vec and specific parameters. The embeddings are divided into...Pedrazzini, Nilo ; McGillivray, Barbara
historical semantics, word-vectors, late-modern-english, newspapers, diachronic-embeddings, and word2vec
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Decade-level Word2Vec models from automatically transcribed 19th-century newspapers digitised by the British Library (1800-1919)
Word embeddings trained on a 4.2-billion-word corpus of 19th-century British newspapers using Word2Vec and specific parameters. The embeddings are divided into periods of ten years each. Unlike those in this repository, these were not aligned and OCR errors skimmed from the vocabulary. See related GitHub repository for the full documentation:...Pedrazzini, Nilo
historical semantics, British newspapers, word embeddings, word vectors, word2vec, and Late Modern English
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Diachronic and diatopic word embeddings from newspapers digitised by the British Library (1830-1889): North and South England
Diachronic word embeddings (decade-level) trained with Word2Vec (via Gensim) on different geographic subcorpora of the Heritage Made Digital British and the Living with Machines historical newspaper collections: - North England (north.zip) - South England (south.zip) At the moment, for each subcorpus, Word2Vec models are available for each decade in the...Pedrazzini, Nilo ; McGillivray, Barbara
historical semantics, diachronic embeddings, late modern English, word embeddings, word vectors, word2vec, and diatopic embeddings
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Dataset
Living with Machines Zooniverse Participant Survey
Summary results from a survey of contributors to Living with Machines Zooniverse crowdsourcing projects. Responses were received between 24 May and 13 June 2022. We designed the survey so that we could align our reporting with two other audience / participant research groups. Firstly, we used the demographic categories that...British Library
online volunteering, digital participation, citizen science, citizen history, questionnaire, crowdsourcing, survey, and audience research
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Book chapter
Hunting for Treasure: Living with Machines and the British Library Newspaper Collection
This chapter discusses the open access digitisation programme undertaken by Living with Machines, exploring the range of constraints that inform digitisation strategies and selection priorities. Because the landscape of digitised newspaper collections is so complex, and research and digitisation processes operate on different timelines, we have focused on opportunities to...Tolfo, Giorgia ; Vane, Olivia ; Beelen, Kaspar ; Hosseini, Kasra ; Lawrence, Jon …
interdisciplinarity, digitised newspaper collections, digital corpus, research workflows, and digitisation strategy
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Dataset
The Newspaper Press Directory (1846-1920) - enriched and structured version
Mitchell's Newspaper Press Directories contained an almost complete list of newspapers published in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. It was published regularly from 1846 onwards and provided a detailed description of the newspaper landscape over time. This version contains a structured, tabular representation of the directories (as CSV or Excel...C. Mitchell and Co. ; British Library
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Exhibition object labels
Living with Machines: Human stories from the industrial age (exhibition board text)
‘Living with Machines: Human stories from the industrial age’ was a free exhibition at Leeds City Museum from July 2022-January 2023. It explored how machines and mechanisation changed life and work in Leeds and the surrounding regions. A collaboration between the British Library and Leeds City Museum, the exhibition was...Ridge, Mia ; McGoldrick, John
history of science, mechanisation, data science, industrialisation, history of technology, and information visualisation
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Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. (1858 - 1918) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Darlington & Richmond Herald
Darlington & Richmond Herald was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Colne Valley Guardian
Colne Valley Guardian was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Widnes Examiner
Widnes Examiner (1876-1920) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines project.British Library
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The Runcorn Examiner
The Runcorn Examiner (1870-1954) was a weekly newspaper and years 1870-1920 have been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines project.British Library
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Warrington Examiner
Warrington Examiner (1869-1901) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines project.British Library
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Glasgow Courier
Glasgow Courier was a thrice weekly/bi-weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Nuneaton Times
Nuneaton Times was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines project.British Library
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Birkenhead News
Birkenhead News was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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British Miner and General Newsman
British Miner and General Newsman was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Swansea Journal and South Wales Liberal
Swansea Journal and South Wales Liberal was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette
Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Poole Telegram
Poole Telegram was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Pontypridd District Herald
Pontypridd District Herald was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Northern Weekly Gazette
Northern Weekly Gazette was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Liverpool Weekly Courier
Liverpool Weekly Courier was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Kenilworth Advertiser
Kenilworth Advertiser was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Bridport, Beaminster and Lyme Regis telegram
Bridport, Beaminster and Lyme Regis telegram was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Bridlington and Quay Gazette
Bridlington and Quay Gazette was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Central Glamorgan Gazette
Central Glamorgan Gazette was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Blandford Weekly News
Blandord Weekly News was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Warwickshire Herald
Warwickshire Herald was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Weymouth Telegram
Weymouth Telegram (1860 - 1901) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines project.British Library
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Denton and Haughton Examiner
Denton and Haughton Examiner was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines project. Variant titles are 1873-74 The Denton, Haughton, & District Weekly News. 1874-75 Denton & Haughton Weekly News, and Audenshaw, Hooley Hill, and Dukinfield Advertiser, 1875-78 Denton Examiner, Audenshaw,...British Library
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Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser
Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. (1863 - 1914) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times
Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. (1847 - 1890) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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