UCLDH ONLINE Book Launch: The Atlas of Digitised Newspapers and Metadata

In 2020, The Atlas of Digitised Newspapers and Metadata: Reports from Oceanic Exchanges was published as part of the AHRC/ESRC-funded project ‘Oceanic Exchanges: Tracing Global Information Networks in Historical Newspaper Repositories, 1840-1914’. Join us for a free, virtual launch (taking place on Zoom) during which we will give an introduction to the Atlas, including a how-to session on working with the collections included in the report.

Hosted by UCLDH, the launch will include speakers Professor Ryan Cordell (Northeastern University), Professor Melissa Terras (University of Edinburgh), Dr Quintus van Galen (Senior Librarian, Nieuwe Veste) and the report’s editors, Dr Melodee Beals (Loughborough University) and Dr Emily Bell (University of Leeds).

The Atlas of Digitised Newspapers is a comprehensive guide to the histories, structures and metadata of ten collections of digitised newspapers, including those held by:

• Chronicling America (The Library of Congress)
• The Hemeroteca Nacional Digital de México
• The British Library
• The Times Digital Archive
• Delpher (Koninklijke Bibliotheek)
• Europeana
• The Suomen Kansalliskirjaston Digitoidut Sanomalehdet
• Trove (The National Library of Australia)
• Papers Past (The National Library of New Zealand)

This ambitious project brought together a consortium of cultural historians, computational linguistics, literary scholars, digital curators, humanists, and computer scientists and represents a collaboration between researchers in six countries. The resulting report provides readers with a deep contextualisation of the collections including their history, selection process and digitisation projects, as well as detailed technical information about how to obtain, interpret, manipulate and map metadata and content across databases. A key resource for researchers of nineteenth-century periodicals, the report can be downloaded for free and has recently opened up to new contributors who can add further collections.

Find out more about the Atlas: https://www.digitisednewspapers.net. 

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This event is organised by UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, which is part of the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies.