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2021
Research report
Living with Machines Delivery Plan version 1, 2019
Living with Machines is a five-year collaborative project. It aims to generate new perspectives on the effects of the mechanisation of labour on the lives of ordinary people in Britain during the 'long nineteenth century' (c.1780-1918), by developing computational and historical techniques and research questions for working with historical sources....Ahnert, Ruth ; Beavan, David ; Colavizza, Giovanni ; Farquhar, Adam ; Griffin, Emma …
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2019
Conference paper (unpublished)
Defoe: A Spark-Based Toolbox for Analysing Digital Historical Textual Data
This work presents defoe, a new scalable and portable digital eScience toolbox that enables historical research. It allows for running text mining queries across large datasets, such as historical newspapers and books in parallel via Apache Spark. It handles queries against collections that comprise several XML schemas and physical representations....