How are we working with digitised newspapers?

Based on workshop gathering experienced researchers, we propose to discuss a series of challenges posed by the availability of these rich collections: what are the workflows that are technically possible and how to integrate the epistemological issues into the discussion of the findings? This workshop led to the design of a checklist of questions on each step of the workflow (included in the paper as appendix):

• Representativity of the digital collection compared to the analogue
• What is behind the interface? How do the search engine settings, indexation and pre-processing of the collection impact the query?
• What can be done in the interface?
• Contextualisation: what are the actionable content-based metadata (e.g. via NLP outputs) that can help contextualise the result list.