Digital interfaces of historical newspapers: opportunities, restrictions and recommendations
Many libraries offer free access to digitised historical newspapers via user interfaces. After an initial period of search and filter options as the only features, the availability of more advanced tools and the desire for more options among users has ushered in a period of interface development. Ho...
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| author | Eva Pfanzelter Sarah Oberbichler Jani Marjanen Pierre-Carl Langlais Stefan Hechl |
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| description | Many libraries offer free access to digitised historical newspapers via user interfaces. After an initial period of search and filter options as the only features, the availability of more advanced tools and the desire for more options among users has ushered in a period of interface development. However, this raises a number of open questions and challenges. For example, how can we provide interfaces for different user groups? What tools should be available on interfaces and how can we avoid too much complexity? What tools are helpful and how can we improve usability? This paper will not provide definite answers to these questions, but it gives an insight into the difficulties, challenges and risks of using interfaces to investigate historical newspapers. More importantly, it provides ideas and recommendations for the improvement of user interfaces and digital tools. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-467be3bc585e416b9dbcf0f389d0e9d92024-03-07T16:17:48ZengNicolas TurenneJournal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities2416-59992021-01-01HistoInformaticsHistoInformatics10.46298/jdmdh.61216121Digital interfaces of historical newspapers: opportunities, restrictions and recommendationsEva Pfanzelter0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5033-7344Sarah Oberbichler1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1031-2759Jani Marjanen2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3085-4862Pierre-Carl Langlais3Stefan Hechl4Leopold Franzens Universität Innsbruck - University of InnsbruckLeopold Franzens Universität Innsbruck - University of InnsbruckHelsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of HelsinkiGroupe de recherches interdisciplinaires sur les processus d’information et de communicationLeopold Franzens Universität Innsbruck - University of InnsbruckMany libraries offer free access to digitised historical newspapers via user interfaces. After an initial period of search and filter options as the only features, the availability of more advanced tools and the desire for more options among users has ushered in a period of interface development. However, this raises a number of open questions and challenges. For example, how can we provide interfaces for different user groups? What tools should be available on interfaces and how can we avoid too much complexity? What tools are helpful and how can we improve usability? This paper will not provide definite answers to these questions, but it gives an insight into the difficulties, challenges and risks of using interfaces to investigate historical newspapers. More importantly, it provides ideas and recommendations for the improvement of user interfaces and digital tools.https://jdmdh.episciences.org/6121/pdfdigital humanitiesfrequenciestopic modellinghistorical newspapersinterfacesdigital newspapers[shs.hist]humanities and social sciences/history[info.info-dl]computer science [cs]/digital libraries [cs.dl][info.info-lg]computer science [cs]/machine learning [cs.lg][shs]humanities and social sciences[shs.stat]humanities and social sciences/methods and statistics |
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| title | Digital interfaces of historical newspapers: opportunities, restrictions and recommendations |
| title_full | Digital interfaces of historical newspapers: opportunities, restrictions and recommendations |
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| title_short | Digital interfaces of historical newspapers: opportunities, restrictions and recommendations |
| title_sort | digital interfaces of historical newspapers opportunities restrictions and recommendations |
| topic | digital humanities frequencies topic modelling historical newspapers interfaces digital newspapers [shs.hist]humanities and social sciences/history [info.info-dl]computer science [cs]/digital libraries [cs.dl] [info.info-lg]computer science [cs]/machine learning [cs.lg] [shs]humanities and social sciences [shs.stat]humanities and social sciences/methods and statistics |
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