Editors’ Choice: How 21st Century Tech Can Shed Light On 19th Century Newspapers
Digital Humanities Now 2018-12-04
Summary:
The 19th century saw something of an explosion in periodicals. For example, the number of newspapers in Britain alone leapt from 550 in 1846 to more than 2,400 just 60 years later. For humanities scholars, tracking information in such a huge mass of publications poses a daunting challenge. Digital humanities efforts have made some headway...