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2016/7/13

Exploring Historical Newspaper

MITH - Xiaoyu Tai

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

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 breadcrumb

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

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more Articles

Show:

Johnstown Times Issue 3/1/1900, Page 2 Johnstown Herald Issue 3/2/1900, Page 1 Johnstown Tribune Issue 3/2/1900, Page 3

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

Show:

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

Show:

Search: 1904 Summer Olympics

• > Wikipedia
• > Highlight Articles:

more

• > Google Search
• > Headlines:
• > Newspapers:

Chicago Post Chicago Post Chicago Post more more

• > Other Sources

Event

Search: 1932 Summer Olympics vs 1984 Summer Olympics

• > Wikipedia
• > Highlight Articles:

more

• > Google Search
• > Headlines:
• > Newspapers:

Los Angeles Times more more Events Compare

• > Highlight Articles:

more

• > Headlines:
• > Newspapers:

Los Angeles Times more more 1932 Summer Olympics 1984 Summer Olympics

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

2200 4400 6600 8800 11000 1860 1862 1864 1868 1870

In our database Total Newspapers

Approximately 10,000 newspapers

Circulation Search: New York Tribune circulation New York Tribune circulation

50000 100000 150000 200000 250000 300000 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s

Search: New York Tribune & New York Herald circulation circulation compare

50000 100000 150000 200000 250000 300000 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s

New York Herald New York Tribune

Circulation

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

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✤ 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

Thanks