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Press Picker
Press Picker was created to help select British Library newspaper titles for digitisation. Read more about the context in this blog post and see an interactive demo in this post. The tool provides an overview of newspaper holdings over time, their different formats (hardcopy or microfilm), and the relationship between titles connected by name changes. Titles can be selected within the interface and their data exported. We are sharing the code for reuse. Press Picker consists of two Python Jupyter notebooks. The first (Step 01) filters and processes the newspaper data in preparation for the second notebook (Step 02), which…
Additional information
| Status | |
|---|---|
| Team/Department | |
| Collab with | Multiple Partners |
| Category | |
| Code Location | |
| Outcome | Code |
| Contact (BL) | McKer, Luke |
| IT Lead (External) | Olivia Vane |
| Other People | Olivia Vane, Kasra Hosseini and Giorgia Tolfo. |
| Project Goal | Press Picker was created to help select British Library newspaper titles for digitisation. Read more about the context in this blog post and see an interactive demo in this post. The tool provides an overview of newspaper holdings over time, their different formats (hardcopy or microfilm), and the relationship between titles connected by name changes. Titles can be selected within the interface and their data exported. We are sharing the code for reuse. |
| Project Info | Press Picker consists of two Python Jupyter notebooks. The first (Step 01) filters and processes the newspaper data in preparation for the second notebook (Step 02), which visualises the data. Some data pre-processing is done in another notebook. |
| Re-Usable | Yes, with specific data |
| Dataset Used | |
| Dataset Notes | Newspapers from 1780-1918 |
| Funding | LWM funding |
| External Partners | Alan Turing Institute |
| Doc. available? | Yes |
| Doc. Notes | |
| Online Articles (External) | |
| Attachments | 1 |
| Released | 01/03/2021 00:00 |
| Release Version | 0.1.0 |
| Released by | Kasra Hosseini |
