KB symposium historische kranten als big data, Den Haag, 24 maart 2015

1. Europeana Newspapers
24 March 2015 – Den Haag– Morning Edition
Published by Alastair Dunning,
@alastairdunning, KB Big Data workshop,
Slides http://bit.ly/1G4eNiW

2. 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

3. Responses to the Titanic Disaster
http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=nzg&datum=19120417&seite=1&zoom=33

4. Responses to the Titanic Disaster
http://kranten.delpher.nl/nl/view/index?query=de+telegraaf+titanic&coll=ddd&image=d
dd%3A110546692%3Ampeg21%3Aa0026&page=2&maxperpage=10&sortfield=date

5. Responses to the Titanic Disaster
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k289555z

6. Responses to the Titanic Disaster
http://hemerotecadigital.bne.es/details.vm?q=id:0000817544&s=0

7. Responses to the Titanic Disaster

8. 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 …)

9. The Europeana Newspapers
project is making this kind of
investigation easier

10. 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)

11. 3,463 titles represented
3,572,194 issues (ie metadata records)
11,202,411 full text pages and images
30+ languages

12. Full text pages (with images) by source library, March
2014

13. We are exploring how to make the
(public domain) parts of this full
text and images available for re-
use via API and download

14. We are also looking for
researchers (ie you !) to
work with parts of this
dataset

15. 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)

16. 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,
alastair.dunning@europeana.eu