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View article: Hunting for Treasure: Living with Machines and the British Library Newspaper Collection
Hunting for Treasure: Living with Machines and the British Library Newspaper Collection Open
This chapter discusses the open access digitisation programme undertaken by Living with Machines, exploring the range of constraints that inform digitisation strategies and selection priorities. Because the landscape of digitised newspaper…
View article: Can I believe what I see? Data visualization and trust in the humanities
Can I believe what I see? Data visualization and trust in the humanities Open
Questions of trust are increasingly important in relation to data and its use. The authors focus on humanities data and its visualization, through analysis of their own recent projects with museums, archives and libraries internationally. …
View article: Maps of a Nation? The Digitized Ordnance Survey for New Historical Research
Maps of a Nation? The Digitized Ordnance Survey for New Historical Research Open
Although the Ordnance Survey has itself been the subject of historical research, scholars have not systematically used its maps as primary sources of information. This is partly for disciplinary reasons and partly for the technical reason …
View article: Design as externalization
Design as externalization Open
The article is concerned with a central contribution of designing to information visualization in the digital humanities. The activity is characterized as one of externalization, instantiation in visible or tangible form of ideas. A spectr…
View article: Using Data Visualisation to tell Stories about Collections
Using Data Visualisation to tell Stories about Collections Open
The paper explores visualisation of “big data” from digitised museum collections and archives, focusing on the relationship between data, visualisation and narrative. A contrast is presented between visualisations that show “just the data”…