Introducing the Atlas of Digitised Newspapers and Metadata
By Emily Bell and M. H. Beals Just as the nineteenth-century newspaper was a messy object, filled with an ever-changing mix of material in an innumerable number of amorphous layouts, working with the structures of digitised newspapers is no different. While a user approaching a digitised newspaper collection through a glossy web interface and inputting keywords might not realise it, there are decades of decision-making processes still influencing what exactly it’s possible for that user to search for, and what they will find.[i] And if you’ve ever wondered why there isn’t one enormous search engine for newspapers and periodicals that […]