10.5281/zenodo.3404155
https://zenodo.org/records/3404155
oai:zenodo.org:3404155
Ehrmann, Maud
Maud
Ehrmann
0000-0001-9900-2193
DHLAB, EPFL
Bunout, Estelle
Estelle
Bunout
C2DH, Luxembourg University
Düring
Düring
0000-0001-7411-771X
Marten
Historical Newspaper User Interfaces: A Review
Zenodo
2019
digitized historical newspapers, user interfaces, digital scholarship, digital humanities, library collections, library services, knowledge management
2019-09-02
eng
https://zenodo.org/record/3369875
10.5281/zenodo.3404154
https://zenodo.org/communities/impresso
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
After decades of large-scale digitization, many historical newspaper collections are just one click away via online portals developed and supported by various public or private stakeholders. Initially offering access to full text search and facsimiles visualization only, historic newspaper user interfaces are increasingly integrating advanced exploration features based on the application of text mining tools to digitized sources. As gateways to enriched material, such interfaces are however not neutral and play a fundamental role in how users perceive historical sources, understand potential biases of upstream processes and benefit from the opportunities of datafication. What features can be found in current interfaces, and to what degree do interfaces adopt novel technologies? This paper presents a survey of interfaces for digitized historical newspapers with the aim of mapping the current state of the art and identifying recent trends with regard to content presentation, enrichment and user interaction. We devised 6 interface assessment criteria and reviewed twenty-four interfaces based on ca. 140 predefined features.
Swiss National Science Foundation
10.13039/501100001711
CRSII5_173719
Media Monitoring of the Past