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Challenges • Digitized newspaper corpora currently siloed in national collections • Historical newspaper archives have been digitised by public entities (the Library of Congress, Hemeroteca Nacional de México), commercial companies (Gale Cengage or DC Thomson/FindMyPast), and public-private partnerships (the British Newspaper Archive). • The problem of OCR-related noise, or imperfect comparability of corpora

Member Institutions and PIs Member Institutions and PIs • Northeastern University, US. Ryan Cordell (Consortium PI) • University of Nebraska–Lincoln, US. Elizabeth Lorang • North Carolina State University, US. Paul Fyfe • University of Turku, Finland. Hannu Salmi • University College London, UK. Ulrich Tiedau • Loughborough University, UK. Melodee Beals • Utrecht University, Netherlands. Jaap Verheul • National Autonomous University of Mexico. Isabel Galina Russell • Universität Stuttgart. Steffen Koch

Member Institutions and PIs Member Institutions and PIs • Northeastern University, US. Ryan Cordell (Consortium PI) • University of Nebraska–Lincoln, US. Elizabeth Lorang • North Carolina State University, US. Paul Fyfe • University of Turku, Finland. Hannu Salmi • University College London, UK. Ulrich Tiedau The Finnish Team : • Loughborough University, UK. Melodee Beals Otto Latva • Utrecht University, Netherlands. Jaap Verheul Asko Nivala • National Autonomous University of Mexico. Mila Oiva Isabel Galina Russell Hannu Salmi • Universität Stuttgart. Steffen Koch

Data Providers Data Providers Germany • Berlin State Library • Hamburg State Library • Bavarian State Library Netherlands • National Library of the Netherlands United Kingdom • British Library • Cengage Publishing Finland • National Library of Finland

Available Data for the Project Available Data for the Project Australia’s Trove Newspapers http://trove.nla.gov.au 18.5 million British Newspapers Archive http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk 14.5 million Chronicling America (US) http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov 11 million Europeana Newspapers http://europeana-newspapers.eu 20 million Hemeroteca Nacional Digital de México http://www.hndm.unam.mx 9 million National Library of Finland http://digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi/sanomalehti 2 million National Library of the Netherlands http://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten 11 million National Library of Wales http://newspapers.library.wales 1.1 million New Zealand's PapersPast http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz 4 million Cengage Newsvault (commercial) http://goo.gl/OgCvUo 16 million

Aims • To build classifiers for textual and visual similarity of related newspaper passages; • To create a networked ontology of different genres, forms, and textual elements that emerged during the nineteenth century; • To model and visualise textual migration and viral culture; • To model and visualise conceptual migration and translation of texts across regional, national, and linguistic boundaries; • To analyze the sensitivity and generality of results; release public collections

Questions 1. Which stories spread between nations and how quickly? 2. Which texts were translated and resonated across languages? 3. How did textual copying (reprinting) operate internationally compared to conceptual copying (ideas spread)? 4. How did the migration of texts facilitate the circulation of knowledge, ideas, and concepts, and how were these ideas transformed as they moved from one Atlantic context to another? 5. How did geopolitical realities (e.g. economic integration, technology, migration, geopolitical power) influence the directionality of these transnational exchanges? 6. How does reporting in immigrant and ethnic communities differ from reporting in surrounding host countries? 7. Does the national organization of digitized newspaper archives artificially foreclose globally-oriented research questions and outcomes?

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