Stuck in the Middle: Developing Research Workflows for a Multi-scale Text Analysis

Beals, Melodee

doi:10.1080/13555502.2017.1301178

Journal of Victorian Culture

2017

DOI: 10.1080/13555502.2017.1301178

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Stuck in the Middle: Developing Research Workflows for a Multi-scale Text Analysis

Melodee Beals

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“…As the wider project progresses, it is expected that further datasets for additional years and wider corpora will be made available through the project website (https://osf.io/nm2rq). A fuller description of the methods used to create the dataset, and the rationale behind these, can be found in the related article within the Journal of Victorian Culture [6].…”

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Scissors and Paste: The Georgian Reprints, 1800–1837

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2017

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This dataset, part of the Scissors and Paste Project (https://osf.io/nm2rq), describes instances of reprinting and text reuse (scissors-and-paste journalism) in British newspapers between 1800-1837. It was derived from the 19 th -Century British Library Newspapers, Part 1 digitised newspaper collection by using plagiarism detection software to identify instances of substantially similar text. It contains a series of manifests that describe a) instances of shared content b) the likely directionality of copying and c) which instances are evolutionary dead-ends and have no known reprints. It is comprised of 1,824 TSV files, divided into four directories, each representing one month between January 1800 and December 1837.

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Scissors and Paste: The Georgian Reprints, 1800–1837

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Close Readings of Big Data: Triangulating Patterns of Textual Reappearance and Attribution in the Caledonian Mercury, 1820–40

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Victorian Periodicals Review

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Newspaper digitisation has been hailed as a revolutionary change in how researchers can engage with the periodical press. 1 From immediate global access, to keyword searching, to large-scale text and image analysis, the ever-growing availability of electronic facsimiles, metadata, and machine-readable transcriptions has encouraged scholars to pursue large-scale analyses rather than rely on samplings and soundings from an unwieldy and fragmentary record-to go beyond the case study and attempt the "comprehensive history" of the press that seemed so elusive forty years ago. 2 Yet, after a decade of access to digital newspaper corpora, much of what has been attempted remains fundamentally conservative in approach. 3 In British Settler Emigration in Print (2016), Jude Piesse laudably provides URLs to the precise facsimiles she consulted and comments on the search parameters used to obtain her sample. However, her coverage was fragmentary, relying heavily upon select case studies rather than demonstrating general trends, admitting that "[d]igital searches frequently generate thousands of hits, which can be difficult to navigate or to appraise in any detail." 4 She also subtly laments the loss of the immersive offline experience: "Despite the obvious benefits of focused digital searching, it is quite possible that it misses details that research in paper archives would bring to light," the ease of jumping straight to a keyword discouraging a deep contextual understanding of the materials. Online interfaces encourage this type of sampling, with simplified full-text and metadata searches returning a list of "relevant" hits based on often-hidden algorithms, constricting research in ways similar to using a publishercreated newspaper index.

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Stuck in the Middle: Developing Research Workflows for a Multi-scale Text Analysis

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Scissors and Paste: The Georgian Reprints, 1800–1837

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Close Readings of Big Data: Triangulating Patterns of Textual Reappearance and Attribution in the Caledonian Mercury, 1820–40

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