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Created: 20 July 2015
As part of the Europeana Newspapers project, millions of word of public domain text were created via OCRing the historic newspapers that the library partners made available.
After aggregating and text and making it searchable via The European Library, we are now making the raw text available
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Created: 13 July 2015
Agiatis Benardou
During a recent ARIADNE Expert Forum on the digital futures of archaeological practice held in Athens, Professor Gary Lock expressed a rather provocative idea: Digital Archaeology, he said, may be an established self-contained sub-discipline of Archaeology. It sounded interesting. If Digital Archaeology is indeed a sub-discipline of Archaeology, let alone a self-contained one, one would be safe to assume that Archaeology is indeed a self-contained discipline in its own right
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Created: 10 July 2015
The 20th century saw a rapid development in schools and education throughout Europe, and school history is a topic of interest to a wide range of researchers in a variety of disciplines throughout Europe and beyond. Much of our cultural heritage is in some way or other tied to the education of school children: of pedagogical and social situations as well as physical environments. For this reason, one of the topics selected for the future content strategy of Europeana Research is European school history of the 20th century
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Created: 7 July 2015
Last month, I travelled to Paris to take part in the Digital Humanities Experiments Conference #dhiha6 held at the German Historical Institute Paris. Revolving around the theme of “experiments”, this two-day conference gave to approximately 20 young researchers, including me, the opportunity to express their own views and experience from the area of Digital Humanities in a friendly, highly dialogical environment
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Created: 1 July 2015
Parliamentary Papers provide the best laboratory for studying the workings of government. They are essential tools for democracy, holding government to account and allowing historians to trace the political development of nation states
