LilyPads: Exploring the Spatiotemporal Dissemination of Historical Newspaper Articles

Max Franke, Markus John, Moritz Knabben, Jana Keck, Tanja Blascheck, Steffen Koch

2020

Abstract

Today, libraries provide digitized collections of historical newspapers, which researchers in the humanities seek to analyze. An important objective of this work is to enable researchers to overview and analyze the textual, temporal and geographical dissemination of an event expressed in document corpora of interest. For this, we propose LilyPads, which permits researchers to analyze such corpora using a novel, map-inset-based approach. In contrast to previous work, LilyPads is centered around one main view, which integrates key aspects of the visualized data, thereby facilitating an explorative approach to finding relationships in data. From LilyPads’ overview, researchers can select subsets of data as well as individual documents interactively, which supports detailed analysis of the corpus, combining close and distant reading methods. We show the applicability of LilyPads by demonstrating its use in a real-world analysis scenario.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Franke M., John M., Knabben M., Keck J., Blascheck T. and Koch S. (2020). LilyPads: Exploring the Spatiotemporal Dissemination of Historical Newspaper Articles. In Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2020) - Volume 3: IVAPP; ISBN 978-989-758-402-2, SciTePress, pages 17-28. DOI: 10.5220/0008871400170028

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ivapp20,
author={Max Franke and Markus John and Moritz Knabben and Jana Keck and Tanja Blascheck and Steffen Koch},
title={LilyPads: Exploring the Spatiotemporal Dissemination of Historical Newspaper Articles},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2020) - Volume 3: IVAPP},
year={2020},
pages={17-28},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008871400170028},
isbn={978-989-758-402-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2020) - Volume 3: IVAPP
TI - LilyPads: Exploring the Spatiotemporal Dissemination of Historical Newspaper Articles
SN - 978-989-758-402-2
AU - Franke M.
AU - John M.
AU - Knabben M.
AU - Keck J.
AU - Blascheck T.
AU - Koch S.
PY - 2020
SP - 17
EP - 28
DO - 10.5220/0008871400170028
PB - SciTePress