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Libraries, of course, support scholarship. But in the twenty-first century, scholars might occasionally be able to return the favor. As scholars develop experience mining large datasets, there is a growing area of overlap between the things libraries need done (organizing collections, enriching metadata), and the tasks that count as research in other fields. This area of overlap holds opportunities for both sides.
Text as data for research in social science and the humanities has been a hot issue in methodological debates for decades. Interest in large quantities of text started with investigations especially of propaganda in press coverage of hostile countries during the first half of the 20th century.
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The missing decades: the 20th century black hole in Europeana
For the last couple of years librarians have talked about a 20th century black hole when trying to describe the effect that copyright has on making cultural heritage available online.
Rather remarkably for a Dutch November morning, it was with blue skies overhead that 240 members of the Europeana Network Association gathered in Amsterdam for the 2015 AGM, this year bearing the title ‘We are Europeana’. So what did we all get up to?
We are delighted to announce that the Europeana Research Advisory Board has now been established, and are very happy to have a wide ranging spectrum of digital humanities expertise included. The role of the board will be to develop and steer the work of Europeana Research