Digitised Newspapers – A New Eldorado for Historians? Reflections on Tools, Methods and Epistemology

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Notes

1 I want to acknowledge that I (have) work(ed) with two of the editors (Estelle Bunout and Frédéric Clavert) and several of the contributors (Kaspar Beelen, Katherine McDonough, and Melvin Wevers).

2 Beelen et al., “Bias and Representativeness in Digitized Newspaper Collections,” 1–22.

3 Hobbs, “The Deleterious Dominance of The Times in Nineteenth-Century Scholarship,” 472–97.

4 Smits, “Problems and Possibilities of Digital Newspaper and Periodical Archives,” 139–46.

5 Cordell, “‘Q i-Jtb the Raven’,” 188–225.

6 van Strien et al., Assessing the Impact of OCR Quality on Downstream NLP Tasks.

7 McDonough, “Maps as Data.”