Big Data in the Humanities: lessons from papyrus and Instagram

Oct 30, 2014

This is a cross-posting of an item that our colleague Josh Cowls has just written for his own blog. Thanks to Josh for permission to repost here.   I’m currently in Washington DC to attend the IEEE International Conference on Big Data. The first day is set...

Search results for historical material

Oct 22, 2014

This is a guest post by Jaspreet Singh, a researcher at the L3S Research Center in Hanover. Jaspreet writes: When people use a commercial search engine to search for information, they represent their intent using a set of keywords. In most cases this is to quickly...

Project progress, an update

Oct 15, 2014

Josh Cowls reflects on recent developments and our goals towards the end of the project:   We are already well past the half-way mark of the project, and exciting new developments mean that our eleven researchers are well on their way to producing high-quality...

Web archives at the British Library

Jul 2, 2014

This is a post by one of the project team from the British Library. Peter Webster is Web Archiving Engagement and Liaison Manager. Peter writes: At the British Library, the web archiving team are delighted to be involved in this important new project, which builds on...