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Conference paper (published)
Resolving places, past and present: toponym resolution in historical British newspapers using multiple resources
Newspapers and their metadata are richly geographical, not only in their distribution but also their content. Attending to these spatial features is a prerequisite in newspaper research. Following other projects to have geoparsed place names in newspapers, we describe our approach to linking historical geospatial information in text to real-world...Coll Ardanuy, Mariona ; McDonough, Katherine ; Krause, Amrey ; Wilson, Daniel C.S. ; Hosseini, Kasra …
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Dataset
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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Dataset
The Newspaper Press Directory (1846-1880)
Newspaper directories produced and published annually in contemporary 19th Britain by advertising agent Charles Mitchell. Newspapers listed primarily listed in alphabetical order of the town the newspaper where the title was published. Information for each title included: features connected with the district such as population and trade; principal towns in...C. Mitchell and Co. ; British Library
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Dataset
Living with Machines alpha and beta Zooniverse 'accident' task data
Data created through crowdsourcing tasks hosted on the Zooniverse platform. Members of the public were asked to look at a selection of articles from 19th century newspapers that mentioned machines and decide if they described an industrial accident. A further task asked participants to transcribe personal, organisational and place names...Zooniverse volunteers
crowdsourcing, digital history, citizen history, Living with Machines, newspapers, and digital humanities
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Dataset
Living Machines atypical animacy dataset
Atypical animacy detection dataset, based on nineteenth-century sentences in English extracted from an open dataset of nineteenth-century books digitized by the British Library (available via https://doi.org/10.21250/db14, British Library Labs, 2014). This dataset contains 598 sentences containing mentions of machines. Each sentence has been annotated according to the animacy and humanness... -
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May's British and Irish Press Guide and Advertiser's Handbook & Dictionary etc. (1871-1880)
Newspaper directories produced and published annually in contemporary 19th Britain by advertising agent Frederick May and successors, containing information on newspapers, magazines and periodicals and arranged in alphabetical and sometimes tabular order. Information for each title included price, publisher, office, political and religious leaning.Frederick May & Son ; British Library
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Living with Machines
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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
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