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Over half of a million pages of historical newspapers now openly available
March 7, 2023 | Written by Giorgia Tolfo
Today the British Library and Living with Machines project released the text of 50 historical digitised newspaper...
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Digitising newspapers press directories to understand the landscape of historical newspapers
February 20, 2023 | Written by Kaspar Beelen
In this blog post, we introduce the digitised newspaper press directories, a dataset central to the Living with...
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Animation: ‘Leeds over time: as seen through a data science lens’
January 29, 2023 | Written by Mia Ridge
Kalle Westerling and Mia Ridge produced this for the Living with Machines exhibition, held in Leeds City Museum from...
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Georeferencing Ordnance Survey Maps
January 16, 2023 | Written by Giorgia Tolfo
The British Library has digitised over 10,500 historical Ordnance Survey (OS) maps as part of the Living with Machines...
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Creating a national picture: digitising Ordnance Survey maps
January 16, 2023 | Written by Giorgia Tolfo
Ordnance Survey (OS) maps are incredible resources for researchers interested in British history, such as the Living...
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Press Tracer: Visualise Newspaper Lineage
November 17, 2021 | Written by Olivia Vane
Last week we shared ‘Press Tracer’, a data visualisation to help trace the lineage of historical newspaper...
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Sharing the benefits: free to view newspapers on the British Newspaper Archive
August 9, 2021 | Written by Mia Ridge
We are excited to announce a major milestone for newspapers digitised through this project – from today, some of...
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Press Picker: visualising formats and title name changes in the British Library’s newspaper holdings
August 5, 2020 | Written by Olivia Vane
Press Picker visualisation One of the challenges in Living with Machines is making sense of collection metadata at...
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Finding your way… among newspapers
June 16, 2020 | Written by Giorgia Tolfo
Digitisation can be a lengthy process extending beyond the steps, funding, resources and agreements that are required...
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Newspaper copyright and Living with Machines
March 19, 2020 | Written by Claire Austin
In my role as Rights Assurance Manager for Living with Machines, it’s my job to ensure that the project has...
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The impact of OCR on downstream Natural Language Processing tasks (tl;dr)
March 6, 2020 | Written by Daniel van Strien
In this blog post, we give a summary of a recent paper written by project members on the impact of OCR quality. The...
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Finding words in maps, part 2: seeing the results
August 22, 2019 | Written by Olivia Vane
The Living with Machines team are interested in finding text in historic maps and recently had a hack week where a...
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Finding words in maps
July 30, 2019 | Written by Daniel Wilson
This post follows on from an introduction to our OCR hack post. The starting point for the map group was to see if we...
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Living with Machines OCR hack
July 24, 2019 | Written by Daniel van Strien
The Living with Machines project will draw on maps, newspapers, press directories, census records and a wide range of...
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