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2022
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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2021
Journal article
Maps of a Nation? The Digitized Ordnance Survey for New Historical Research
Although the Ordnance Survey has itself been the subject of historical research, scholars have not systematically used its maps as primary sources of information. This is partly for disciplinary reasons and partly for the technical reason that high-quality maps have not until recently been available digitally, geo-referenced, and in color....Hosseini, Kasra ; McDonough, Katherine ; van Strien, Daniel ; Vane, Olivia ; Wilson, Daniel C.S.
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2020
Abstract
Using smart annotations to map the geography of newspapers
Geographic information is a key component in the description of collection objects, and yet its format is often unsuited for use with methods of geographic analysis. Catalogue entries are often inconsistent, in plain text, and without geographic coordinates (much less coordinates linked to authority records). Georesolution of the relevant fields...Ryan, Yann ; Coll Ardanuy, Mariona ; van Strien, Daniel ; Hosseini, Kasra ; Beelen, Kaspar …
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2020
Conference paper (unpublished)
Contextualizing Victorian Newspapers
Beelen, Kaspar ; Ahnert, Ruth ; Beavan, David ; Coll Ardanuy, Mariona ; Hosseini, Kasra …
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2021
Dataset
Ordnance Survey Old / First series England and Wales 1:63360 (georeferenced sheet images)
Map sheet images for the Ordnance Survey Old Series / First Series England and Wales 1:63360, georeferenced and cropped at the neatlike (can be viewed together as a seamless composite). Geotiff format. The original (ungeoreferenced) sheet images can be found at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ordnance_Survey_Old/First_series_England_and_Wales_1:63360_(full_sheets). The sheets were georeferenced by relating the sheet...Vane, Olivia
England, First Series, Old Series, maps, Ordnance Survey, and Wales