PaperMiner—a real-time spatiotemporal visualization for newspaper articles.

In 2005, the National Library of Australia (NLA) began a pilot project to selectively digitize back issues of major Australian newspapers to provide free public access to over 60 million digitized newspaper articles, dating from the first years of Australian colonization to the early 1960s. Trove, a...

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Publicado en:Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 35; no. 1; pp. 83 - 101
Autores principales: Kutty, Sangeetha, Nayak, Richi, Turnbull, Paul, Chernich, Ron, Kennedy, Gavin, Raymond, Kerry
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Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Apr2020
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          Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
          School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Queensland, Australia and School of Humanities, University of Tasmania
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