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Posted on Monday July 19, 2021
Updated on Monday October 21, 2024
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Explore the latest news from the common European data space for cultural heritage, Europeana Initiative and cultural heritage sector as we work towards digital transformation.
EEXCESS develops open source software for enriching web channels like websites or social networks with cultural heritage and scholarly content. It consists of several sub-projects that together offer a privacy-preserving, personalised recommendation service for cultural heritage and scholarly content.
I specialise in text mining and over the last eight years obtaining access to data has been crucial for doing the work I do. More recently, I have been part of many digital humanities projects, including Trading Consequences and Palimpsest, where we mined a series of different textual sources from archives and libraries.
The Historic Newspapers collection of the European Library website gives access to 10 million European digitised newspaper pages. While the availability and accessibility of this rich material are a great addition to the Digital Humanities (DH) researcher corpus, it is quite a challenge exploring such a vast amount of data.
The increasing use of digital methods in the humanities and social sciences as well as the proliferation of various digital humanities initiatives the last decades have created an important need for evidenced-based data on the use of digital methods and tools by Humanists and Social Scientists.
