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A short presentation, using the example of the Sinking of the Titanic, on what can be gained from comparing different historical newspapers
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Europeana Newspapers17 September 2013 – Amsterdam – Morning Edition
Published by Alastair Dunning, The European Library
On 15th April 1912, the passenger ship Titanic, carrying over 2000 passengers and crew, crashed into an iceberg on
its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York
Responses to the Titanic Disaster
Responses to the Titanic Disaster
Responses to the Titanic Disaster
Responses to the Titanic Disaster
Responses to the Titanic Disaster
News travels at different speeds, with importance
that diminishes at different rates.This is true now
as is was in 1912.(though the web changes things …)
The Europeana Newspapers project is making this kind of
investigation easier, in several ways
1. By creating full text for 8m pages
2. By undertaking article segmentation for 2m pages
3. By undertaking named entity extraction for 2m pages
4. By developing a cross-searchable newspapers browser at The
European Library(with metadata forwarded to
Europeana)
Blue– Providing Content
Yellow –Providing Technical Services
Green – Associate Partners
Europeana Newspapers - Partners
https://maps.google.nl/maps/ms?msid=217164746645697066594.0004c3d764fcb71ed2314&msa=0&ll=52.589701,11.777344&spn=42.275511,114.169922
Timetable for rest of projectNow - Test version of interface shared with project yesterdayThroughout 2014 - Ongoing creation of OCR, and other related technical work (OLR, Named Entities)Throughout 2014 – Live version of website improved / usability testingLate 2014 - Final project conferenceLate 2014 - Newspaper browser completed with content and tools from project
More information athttp://www.europeana-newspapers.eu/
