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Europeana Newspapers 24 March 2015 – Den Haag– Morning Edition
Published by Alastair Dunning, @alastairdunning, KB Big Data workshop,
Slides http://bit.ly/1G4eNiW
On 15th April 1912 April 1912, the passenger ship Titanic, carrying over 2,000 passengers and crew, crashed into an iceberg on its maiden voyage
from Southampton to New York
Responses to the Titanic Disaster
http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=nzg&datum=19120417&seite=1&zoom=33
Responses to the Titanic Disaster
http://kranten.delpher.nl/nl/view/index?query=de+telegraaf+titanic&coll=ddd&image=ddd%3A110546692%3Ampeg21%3Aa0026&page=2&maxperpage=10&sortfield=date
Responses to the Titanic Disaster
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k289555z
Responses to the Titanic Disaster
http://hemerotecadigital.bne.es/details.vm?q=id:0000817544&s=0
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
A cross-searchable newspapers interface at
http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/newspapers
However, this is only a traditional search and browse interface (keyword, date, title, issue etc)
3,463 titles represented 3,572,194 issues (ie metadata records) 11,202,411 full text pages and images 30+ languages
Full text pages (with images) by source library, March 2014
We are exploring how to make the (public domain) parts of this full text and images available for re-
use via API and download
We are also looking for researchers (ie you !) to work with parts of this
dataset
With funding from another project (Europeana Cloud), we can explore research questions using the data
Development / computer interaction team
at KU Leuven (Erik Duval) with help from DANS (Kees
Waterman)
We will work with a selection of research teams to explore innovative
uses of the data in 2015
If you are interested, fill in five minute
form by 27 March! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1KGbZFSaEsYKf_3iYvsZNSuKNz1zNS2y4m1hmzGWN06c/viewform
Alastair Dunning; @alastairdunning,
