From Text to Political Positions

This post is from project team member Maarten Marx: The book From Text to Political Positions. Text analysis across disciplines edited by Bertie Kaal, Isa Maks and Annemarie van Elfrinkhof recently appeared. It contains chapters by DiLiPaD researchers Graeme Hirst and...

Welcome to our 11 bursary holders

One of the main aims of the project is to involve arts and humanities researchers in the development of tools for analysing web archives, thereby ensuring that those tools meet real rather than perceived researcher needs. We recently ran an open competition inviting...

Introducing PML (Parliamentary Markup Language)

This post is from the project’s metadata specialist, Richard Gartner: A key feature of the Dilipad project is its use of the XML schema PML (Parliamentary Metadata Language) as its core metadata format. PML was devised as part of an earlier project, LIPARM...

Digging into Parliamentary Data tutorial

Jaap Kamps and Maarten Marx (both University of Amsterdam) will give a tutorial at Digital Libraries 2014, London, called Digging into Parliamentary Data. Date: Monday, 8th September. The tutorial will show how to incrementally annotate textual corpora, starting from...

Introducing the History of Parliament

This is a post by Paul Seaward, introducing the History of Parliament – of which he is the director – and its involvement in the project. The History of Parliament has long been an established feature in the landscape of British history. The product of an...

Preserving the present: the unique challenges of archiving the web

This post is by project team member Josh Cowls of the OII. In March 2012, as Mitt Romney was seeking to win over conservative voters in his bid to become the Republican Party’s presidential nominee, his adviser Eric Fehrnstrom discussed concerns over his appeal to...