The 'Environmental Scan' at work: radical contextualisation of newspaper collections for new historical research

Beelen, Kaspar; Lawrence, Jon; McDonough, Katherine; Westerling, Kalle; Wilson, Daniel C.S.

The 'Environmental Scan' at work: radical contextualisation of newspaper collections for new historical research

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Beelen, Kaspar

Lawrence, Jon

McDonough, Katherine

Westerling, Kalle

Wilson, Daniel C.S.

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2023

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This paper demonstrates the power of the 'Environmental Scan': a new approach to newspaper collections using nineteenth-century reference works to leverage powerful contextual information. Our method uses British collections, but could be replicated for other nations, and was made possible by a radical collaboration between librarians, historians and data scientists.

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Scholger, Walter

Vogeler, Georg

Tasovac, Toma

Baillot, Anne

Raunig, Elisabeth

Scholger, Martina