The<i>Reading Experience Database</i>

Bradley, Matthew

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“…As a matter of fact, an earlier sister project to LED called the Reading Experience Database (RED) [8] aimed at capturing evidence of reading rather than listening, thus resulting in about 34,000 records, of which about one-fifth was contributed by the community. This project corroborated the hypothesis behind LED concerning the availability of unassembled evidence about personal experiences in the literature.…”

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“…The RDF dataset is largely reuse oriented and directly imports data from the DBpedia, 8 The British National Bibliography, 9 MusicBrainz 10 and data.gov.uk datasets. Authority control is provided through cross-checking references between some of these datasets and the Virtual International Authority File.…”

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“…7 The accuracy of the above statement over time can be easily verified through a simple SPARQL query on named graphs, as in http://bit.ly/ 2aiRsm9. 8 DBpedia, http://dbpedia.org. relies on external vocabularies such as Bibo 12 and the Music Ontology [29], as well as providing in-house terminology for listening experiences and additional source document categorisation.…”

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Crowdsourcing Linked Data on listening experiences through reuse and enhancement of library data

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Research has approached the practice of musical reception in a multitude of ways, such as the analysis of professional critique, sales figures and psychological processes activated by the act of listening. Studies in the Humanities, on the other hand, have been hindered by the lack of structured evidence of actual experiences of listening as reported by the listeners themselves, a concern that was voiced since the early Web era. It was however assumed that such evidence existed, albeit in pure textual form, but could not be leveraged until it was digitised and aggregated. The Listening Experience Database (LED) responds to this research need by providing a centralised hub for evidence of listening in the literature. Not only does LED support search and reuse across nearly 10,000 records, but it also provides machine-readable structured data of the knowledge around the contexts of listening. To take advantage of the mass of formal knowledge that already exists on the Web concerning these contexts, the entire framework adopts Linked Data principles and technologies. This also allows LED to directly reuse open data from the British Library for the source documentation that is already published. Reused data are re-published as open data with enhancements obtained by expanding over the model of the original data, such as the partitioning of published books and collections into individual stand-alone documents. The database was populated through crowdsourcing and seamlessly incorporates data reuse from the very early data entry phases. As the sources of the evidence often contain vague, fragmentary of uncertain information, facilities were put in place to generate structured data out of such fuzziness. Alongside elaborating on these functionalities, this article provides insights into the most recent features of the latest instalment of the dataset and portal, such as the interlinking with the MusicBrainz database, the relaxation of geographical input constraints through text mining, and the plotting of key locations in an interactive geographical browser.

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Historical Approaches to Media Studies

Hampton¹

2013

The International Encyclopedia of Media Studies

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In recent decades, media history has become increasingly prominent, with scholarship emerging from a wide variety of disciplines. This chapter examines the methodological issues involved in conducting historical research in media studies. Using Adrian Bingham's Family Newspapers? and Laura Beers's Your Britain as case studies, it explains such topics as historical context, locating primary sources, and the production and reception of media texts. In addition, it outlines the wide variety of historical approaches that can be employed, including textual analysis, policy history, institutional history, and biography.

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