Partnering with Libraries to Support Digital Scholarship

Peter Foster | Gale

“Windrush”

The Times (London, England), February 16, 1934, Issue 46680, p.2.

Aberdeen Journal (Aberdeen, Scotland), Tuesday, July 24, 1934, p .9

The Daily Telegraph (London, England), Tuesday, July 24, 1934, Issue 24701, p.11

Daily Mail (London, England), Saturday, October 21, 1939, Issue 13570, p.[1]

Aberdeen Journal (Aberdeen, Scotland), Tuesday, August 10, 1943, Issue 27647, p.1

Dundee Courier (Dundee, Scotland), Saturday, April 1, 1944, Issue 28339, p.3

Daily Mail (London, England), Friday, November 2, 1945, Issue 15442, p.[1]

The Times (London, England), February 16, 1934, Issue 46680, p.2.

Gloucester Citizen (Gloucester, England), Thursday, June 10, 1948, Vol. 74, Issue 34, p.1

Daily Mail (London, England), Tuesday, June 22, 1948, Issue 16257, p.3.

Derby Daily Telegraph (Derby, England), Thursday, June 10, 1948, Vol. CXXI, Issue 20839, p.8

The Daily Telegraph (London, England), Wednesday, June 23, 1948, Issue 29015, p.5

Picture Post (London, England), Saturday, July 2, 1949, Vol. 44, Issue 1, p.23

The Times Literary Supplement (London, England), Friday, October 2, 1959, Issue 3005, p.555The Listener (London, England), Thursday, October 30, 1969, Vol. 82, Issue 2118, p.[585]The Daily Telegraph (London, England), Friday, June 17, 1988, Issue 41361, p.21

The Economist (London, England), Saturday, June 20, 1998, Vol. 347, Issue 8073, p.42 Daily Mail (London, England), Thursday, August 24, 2000, Issue 32411, p.12

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Gale Primary Sources

More than 200 million

pages of documents

across 500 years+ of

history, from the early

modern period to

present-day, sourced

from over 200 libraries

and archives.

Users can download the

OCR text of any document,

which can be analyzed

with open source tools like

Voyant, etc.

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BUT creation of content sets this

way is time consuming and often

doesn’t meet the need for

analyzing large amounts of text or

data…which is a common need in

Digital Humanities.

www.gale.com/tdm

“Gale will make available content from its Gale Digital Collections to academic researchers for data mining and text mining purposes.

Gale will be the first publisher to make content sets such as these available in this format to academics.”

Our Announcement in 2014

Projects Using Gale Data

American Fiction and the Distribution of Words

https://litlab.stanford.edu/distributions-of-words-27k-novels/

David McClureStanford Literary Lab

SPO & Tudor Networks of Power

Prof Ruth AhnertQueen Mary University of London

Sebastian AhnertUniversity of Cambridge

Prof Dallas LiddleAugsburg College

The Times and Technological Change

Traditional histories of 19th century newspapers either argue:

1. That they experienced a change in form in the 1820s, but thereafter remained consistent (Stanley Morison)

2. They did not change much from their 18th century predecessors (Jeremy Black)

Professor John O’BrienUniversity of Virginia

Mercurius Elencticus (1647) (London, England), July 19, 1648 - July 26, 1648; Issue 35. p8

Athenian Gazette or CasuisticalMercury (London, England), Saturday, October 1, 1692; Issue 10. p1

Burney and poetry hunting

ECCO and “Commonplaces”

http://dh2016.adho.org/abstracts/343

Dr Glen Roe (and team)Australian National University

http://commonplacecultures.uchicago.edu/

Dr Hazel Wilkinson,University of Cambridge

ECCO & Printing in the 18th Century

‘Knowing who printed a book can give insight into the networks of “who knew who” during the 18th century, how information was exchanged, and an understanding of the literary culture of the time.’

The 90-9-1 rule for participation in an online community http://www.nngroup.com/articles/participation-inequality/

Slide courtesy of the COMHIS Collective:

https://comhis.github.io/

http://j.mp/comhis-bsecs

Challenge #1: Access to clean data

The 90-9-1 rule for participation in an online community http://www.nngroup.com/articles/participation-inequality/

Challenge #2: Most researchers lack the technical skills

Challenge #3: Multiple DH environments

Introducing Gale’s Digital Scholar Lab

Cloud-based Digital Humanities platform

for experts and “the 90%”.

Contains datasets extracted from Gale

Primary Sources collections, all optimized

for analysis

Will grow to include 3rd party content, not

just Gale.

Developed in association with DH scholars and technical experts

Create Custom Content Sets

…and build unique research projects

There will be a growing suite of

analysis tools that users can run

on customized content sets they

have created. Each tool can be

customized by the user.

…and later in 2018 users will be

able to create their own tools

using various coding languages

(e.g. Python, R)

Gale’s DS Lab is for “the 90%” too

Thank You!