Project case studies now available

Jul 9, 2015

We are delighted that we can now make available five of the case studies written by researchers across the humanities and social sciences. More will be available via this blog soon. At the beginning of the project we had a number of aspirations for what the case...

Sources of Evidence for Automatic Indexing of Political Texts

May 5, 2015

Political texts on the Web, documenting laws and policies and the process leading to them, are of key importance to government, industry, and every individual citizen.  Yet access to such texts is difficult due to the ever increasing volume and complexity of the...

The Historical Aspects of Dilipad: Challenges and Opportunities

Mar 19, 2015

This post originally appeared on the Digging into Linked Parliamentary Data project blog, and is a guest post by one of the historians working the project, Luke Blaxill. The Dilipad project is on one hand exciting because it will allow us to investigate ambitious...

Accelerating and validating ex post facto hypothesis formulation

Feb 27, 2015

This is a guest post by Evelijn Martinius, highlighting findings from her internship on the project in January 2015: Researchers often set out to test their hypothesis, but the question I would like to pose in the post is: how do they come to frame their hypothesis?...