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Public domain newspaper titles in Living with Machines

May 7, 2024 | Written by Mia Ridge

A list of public domain newspaper titles available within the Living with Machines project; downloadable for re-use by...

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New ‘language of mechanisation’ publication and datasets released

May 2, 2024 | Written by Mia Ridge

We’re delighted to share the news that our data paper has been published by the Journal of Open Humanities Data....

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Living with Machines Digital Residencies

March 8, 2023 | Written by Ruth Ahnert

The Living with Machines project has announced a call for digital residencies. So what are they? And are they for you?

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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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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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These are a few of my favourite things… in the Living with Machines exhibition

August 17, 2022 | Written by Mia Ridge

The free Living with Machines exhibition was open from July 2022 – January 2023 at Leeds City Museum. It was...

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Living with Machines present some of their research to date at the Turing catch-up

August 1, 2022 | Written by Emma Griffin

Emma Griffin (Historian and Co-investigator) gives an introduction to the research project Kaspar Beelan (Research...

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On holding a poster session for colleagues

April 21, 2022 | Written by Mia Ridge

Dr Mia Ridge writes… I’ve meant to write this post for a long time, but as we’re looking to (finally)...

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Exploring ideas for our Living with Machines exhibition

August 11, 2021 | Written by Mia Ridge

An exhibition has been part of our plans since we began working on the funding bid that became Living with Machines in...

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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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Learning from Zooniverse volunteers to improve crowdsourcing projects

January 15, 2021 | Written by Mia Ridge

Did you know that anyone can start their own crowdsourcing project through the Zooniverse Project Builder? Their...

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Using GitHub Actions and Jupyter Notebooks to track Living With Machines GitHub traffic

December 15, 2020 | Written by Daniel van Strien

Funded research projects usually need to show they are spending money effectively and are having an impact on people....

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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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Why is the Communities Lab asking people to read old news?

June 14, 2019 | Written by Mia Ridge

Following Ruth’s post introducing the various ‘Labs’ within the project, this is a quick summary of...

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Introducing ‘Minimum Research Outcomes’

June 6, 2019 | Written by James Hetherington

‘If you don’t plan properly, you will do the wrong work. It’s important to make a careful design...

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Can imagining the worst help us succeed?

February 25, 2019 | Written by Mia Ridge

You can’t work on a project of this size without worrying about all the things that could go wrong. When I came...

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Hello, world!

December 19, 2018 | Written by Mia Ridge

We’re looking forward to posting updates here as our work progresses. In the meantime, some information from our...

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