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Digital Humanities and the Transformation of Historical Studies 11 January 2017 7th PULINET National Conference Chiang Mai, Thailand Masaki Morisawa Senior Product Manager, Gale, International Asia

About Gale • HQ in Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA • One of the foremost library reference publishers • Has many well-established imprints, including: – Gale – Charles Scribner’s Sons – Macmillan Reference USA • Publishing formats include: – Print library reference, such as thematic encyclopedias, annual directories, literary biographies/criticisms, etc. – eBook versions of print publications and an eBook platform – Aggregated Journal databases – Subject-specific Databases combining various content together – Microform collections and serials – Gale Primary Sources: digital archives of historical material

(About Me) • Masaki Morisawa • Based in Tokyo, Japan • Product support for Asia • Lived in the USA as a child • Studied English Literature • Married (sorry!) • Has a daughter (6 yrs) and a son (3 yrs)

“The Books of the Future” (1869) The Pall Mall Gazette 15 Sept 1869 British Library Newspapers

…146 years later: “distant reading” (2015) Beals , M.H. “Boutique Big Data: Reintegrating Close and Distant Reading of 19th-Century Newspapers” http://mhbeals.com/boutique-big-data-reintegrating-close-and-distant-reading-of-19th-century-newspapers/

Why is Digital Humanities important for institutions? Institutions are investing in DH, even though budgets for humanities is declining DH is multidisciplinary DH is seen as a way of making humanities students more employable .

Supporting the Digital Humanities 1. Gale Primary Sources Platform 2. Raw Data Delivery 3. Digital Humanities “Sandbox” (Under active development)

1. Gale Primary Sources platform • 36 products, or 272 selectable modules on a single platform • Cross-search and analyze material across multiple content sets

Full-text Search with hit-term highlighting Searching 138,000,000 pages from 36 different products

Term Frequency Analysis

Term Frequency Analysis

Term Frequency Analysis

Term Cluster Analysis

2. Raw Data Delivery • When rights permit, Gale makes the XML data behind its digital archives available upon request to purchasers of the product version • Data delivered includes full-text OCR as well as more than 75 metadata fields

ECCO and “Commonplaces” Dr Glen Roe (and team) Australian National University http://dh2016.adho.org/abstracts/343

The Times and Suffrage Dr Kat Gupta SHAW., G. BERNARD, and VIOLET R. University of Nottingham MARKHAM. "Woman Suffrage." Times 31 Oct. 1906: 8. The Times Digital Archive. URL http://tinyurl.galegroup.com/tinyurl/3USpS4

Burney and poetry hunting Mercurius Elencticus (1647) (London, England), July 19, 1648 - July 26, 1648; Issue 35. p8 Professor John O’Brien University of Virginia (collaborating with University Athenian Gazette or Casuistical Mercury (London, England), Saturday, October 1, of Nebraska) 1692; Issue 10. p1

3. Gale Digital Humanities “sandbox” • Gale is currently developing a new Digital Humanities platform: – Cloud-based – Clean, analysis-ready text content from multiple sources (including non-Gale) – Access to powerful natural language processing tools from multiple providers • We envision this platform as an online lab environment where researchers can perform sophisticated analyses beyond the scope of our usual interface. • This platform is currently under development.

Conclusion • Digital technology is allowing researchers to answer questions relevant to the humanities in entirely new ways • While “Digital Humanities” is hard to define, it is attracting the attention of institutions and researchers worldwide • Gale, through its Primary Sources program, is committed to support researchers and institutions in this growing field by: – Providing rare primary source content on a unified platform with intuitive digital discovery and analysis tools – Providing raw XML data of such content to purchasing institutions for digital analyses of greater sophistication – Developing a new cloud-based lab environment that allows detailed analyses beyond the scope of the regular interface