Impresso Inspect and Compare. Visual Comparison of Semantically Enriched Historical Newspaper Articles

The automated enrichment of mass-digitised document collections using techniques such as text mining is becoming increasingly popular. Enriched collections offer new opportunities for interface design to allow data-driven and visualisation-based search, exploration and interpretation. Most such inte...

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Published inInformation (Basel) Vol. 12; no. 9; p. 348
Main Authors Düring, Marten, Kalyakin, Roman, Bunout, Estelle, Guido, Daniele
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 2021
Subjects
Archives & records
comparison
Data mining
Design
Digitization
Electronic documents
Enrichment
historical newspapers
Information retrieval
Interfaces
Keywords
Metadata
Multilingualism
National libraries
Queries
Query expansion
Retrieval performance measures
Search methods
Search strategies
semantic enrichment
Semantics
small multiples
user interface
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Summary:The automated enrichment of mass-digitised document collections using techniques such as text mining is becoming increasingly popular. Enriched collections offer new opportunities for interface design to allow data-driven and visualisation-based search, exploration and interpretation. Most such interfaces integrate close and distant reading and represent semantic, spatial, social or temporal relations, but often lack contrastive views. Inspect and Compare (I&C) contributes to the current state of the art in interface design for historical newspapers with highly versatile side-by-side comparisons of query results and curated article sets based on metadata and semantic enrichments. I&C takes search queries and pre-curated article sets as inputs and allows comparisons based on the distributions of newspaper titles, publication dates and automatically generated enrichments, such as language, article types, topics and named entities. Contrastive views of such data reveal patterns, help humanities scholars to improve search strategies and to facilitate a critical assessment of the overall data quality. I&C is part of the impresso interface for the exploration of digitised and semantically enriched historical newspapers.
ISSN:2078-2489
2078-2489
DOI:10.3390/info12090348