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Exploring Historical Newspaper MITH - Xiaoyu Tai 2016/7/13

Research Questions 1. What are the design alternatives of browsing digitized newspaper? 2. How to explore newspaper dataset with modern approaches?

Target User Groups ✤ Researcher ✤ Librarian ✤ General Public

Past: Library Archives

Current: Online Databases Current System

Current: Online Databases CHRONICLING AMERICA Historic American Newspapers News

Browse and Search Highlights

Browse and Search Highlights ✤ Columns View + Interactive Breadcrumb ✤ Interactive Map ✤ Time ✤ Calendar ✤ Decade/Year/Month/Week/Day View

Columns View + Interactive Breadcrumb https://www.newspapers.com/browse/ (location) => (newspaper) =(date)=> (issue) => viewer

Columns View + Interactive Breadcrumb interactive breadcrumb http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/ (click browse) (location) => (newspaper title) => (date) => (issue) => viewer (newspaper title) => (date) => (issue) => viewer (date) => (issue - all newspapers) => viewer (category) => [browse (location/title/date)] => ...

Interactive Map Full map with year range www.newspapers.com/map/

Interactive Map States map www.newspapers.com/ search/#query=times

Time - Calendar View Calendar - Chronicling America http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042344/issues/1911/

Time - Table View Decade/Year/Month/Week/Day View (Google) https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2LRQiq5aZigC

Viewer Highlights

Viewer Highlights ✤ Right-click menu ✤ Minimap ✤ Content Awareness

Right-click menu Right-click menu (Veridian) http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=VEST19831215

Minimap Minimap (Google) https://news.google.com/newspapers? nid=2LRQiq5aZigC&dat=19740314&printsec=frontpage&hl=en

Content Awareness Content Awareness (Google, Veridian)

Current: Online Databases Current System User (e.g. researcher)

Future System: Content + Visualization Future System

Future System: Content + Visualization ✤ Content Analysis ✤ Display Articles, Headlines, Front pages, Ads, ... ✤ Event Summary: Related articles, headlines, newspapers

Content Search: Johnstown flood 1900 Articles Show: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, Praesent sed tortor neque. Cras Quisque at porttitor purus. consectetur adipiscing elit. semper ac sem vel Fusce nec mollis purus. Suspendisse consectetur, dolor pellentesque. Curabitur Quisque erat eros, imperdiet ut id euismod dictum, mauris tristique ut ipsum vitae orci nec, elementum lacus volutpat erat, vel porttitor elementum. Interdum et condimentum arcu. Vestibulum metus est in ligula. In nec malesuada fames ac ante ipsum nec odio accumsan, bibendum rutrum lacus. Suspendisse eu primis in faucibus. Sed nec nibh est eget, pharetra purus. dolor turpis. Cras convallis quis enim placerat vehicula non Suspendisse ut lectus hendrerit facilisis blandit. Suspendisse vel sapien. Aenean a libero dui commodo ullamcorper. odio sapien, porttitor id dapibus, semper velit sed, Nunc id vehicula purus, ac posuere eu, varius eu est. aliquet mauris. Suspendisse nec pulvinar diam. Nullam lacinia Quisque nec consectetur dolor. nunc neque. Curabitur non augue lorem, aliquet cursus Integer vitae enim nec mauris finibus dui, sed mattis odio. eros rhoncus in. Nunc pharetra rhoncus imperdiet. Cras Phasellus faucibus rutrum elit nisi nibh, ut placerat odio consequat venenatis sodales. eu molestie. Nullam ut ornare imperdiet. Aenean pulvinar elit. Nunc eget tortor augue magna, laoreet dignissim Johnstown Times eu eros aliquet tincidunt quis tortor eu, efficitur blandit est. Issue 3/1/1900, Page 2 vel ex. Ut facilisis sed tellus ac Aliquam tempus commodo Johnstown Herald Johnstown Tribune Issue 3/2/1900, Page 1 Issue 3/2/1900, Page 3 more

Content Search: Headlines on 1/19/1919 Show: Headlines Peace Conference Opens, New York Tribune League of Nations First Question, The Washington Times ... ... more

Content Search: Front Pages on 9/11/2001 Show: Front Pages

Event Search: 1904 Summer Olympics -> Highlight Articles: more -> Headlines: more -> Newspapers: more Chicago Post Chicago Post Chicago Post -> Wikipedia -> Google Search -> Other Sources

Events Compare Search: 1932 Summer Olympics vs 1984 Summer Olympics 1932 Summer Olympics 1984 Summer Olympics -> Highlight Articles: -> Highlight Articles: more more -> Headlines: -> Headlines: more more -> Newspapers: -> Newspapers: more more Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times -> Wikipedia -> Google Search

Future System: Content + Visualization ✤ Data Visualization ✤ Counts & Circulation ✤ Language: N-gram Visualization ✤ Other Visual: e.g. "viral texts" project

General Data Search: How many published newspaper in Maryland in 1860s Approximately 10,000 newspapers In our database Total Newspapers 11000 8800 6600 4400 2200 0 1860 1862 1864 1868 1870

Circulation Search: New York Tribune circulation New York Tribune circulation 300000 250000 200000 150000 100000 50000 0 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s

Circulation Search: New York Tribune & New York Herald circulation circulation compare 300000 New York Herald New York Tribune 250000 200000 150000 100000 50000 0 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s

Language Search: Frankenstein, Sherlock Holmes, Albert Einstein Ngram viewer

Future System: Content + Visualization Data Export Feature e.g. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/about/api/

Conclusions ✤ User-Friendly Browse and Search Features (e.g. columns view, map, calendar) ✤ Powerful Viewer (e.g. multi-page, mini-map) ✤ Basic Content Analysis Ability (e.g. headlines, articles) ✤ Basic Data Visualization (e.g. published newspaper) ✤ Data Export Feature

Conclusions ✤ User-Friendly Browse and Search Features ✤ Columns view ✤ Interactive maps ✤ Browse by date options: calendar or table view

Conclusions ✤ Powerful Viewer ✤ basic features: zooming, issue navigation, viewing options ✤ right-click menu of in-content features ✤ mini-map for multi-page view ✤ basic content-awareness

Conclusions ✤ Basic Content Analysis Ability ✤ display sections, headlines, articles, ... ✤ (if possible) provide event page to summarize newspaper segments

Conclusions ✤ Basic Data Visualization ✤ Show basic charts of current database (number of newspaper / time) ✤ Provide advanced-level visualizations (e.g. ngram, comparing data)

Conclusions ✤ Data Export Feature ✤ Chronicling America APIs: http:// chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/about/api/

Conclusions ✤ User-Friendly Browse and Search Features (e.g. columns view, map, calendar) ✤ Powerful Viewer (e.g. multi-page, mini-map) ✤ Basic Content Analysis Ability (e.g. headlines, articles) ✤ Basic Data Visualization (e.g. published newspaper) ✤ Data Export Feature

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