Language of Mechanisation Crowdsourcing Datasets from the Living with Machines Project
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Date published
April 29, 2024
Abstract
We present the ‘Language of Mechanisation’ datasets with examples of re-use in visualisations and analysis. These reusable CSV files, published on the British Library’s Research Repository, contain automatically-transcribed text from 19th century British newspaper articles. Volunteers on the Zooniverse crowdsourcing platform took part in tasks that asked ‘How did the word x change over time and place?’ They annotated articles with pre-selected meanings (senses) for the words coach, car, trolley and bike.
The datasets can support scholarship on a range of historical and linguistic research areas, including research on crowdsourcing and online volunteering behaviours, data processing and data visualisations methodologies.
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Living with Machines
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Arts and Humanities Research Council | |
Journal title
Journal of Open Humanities Data
Publisher
Ubiquity Press, Ltd.
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2059-481X
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