Dinara Gagarina (Perm State University, Russian Federation): "Perm Province Periodicals of the Early 20th Century: Between Preservation and Study" Project presentation on ESU DH 2017 - The European Summer University in Digital Humanities "Culture & Technology" http://permnewspapers.ru/

1. Perm Province Periodicals
of the Early 20th Century:
Between Preservation and Study
Dinara Gagarina
Center for Digital Humanities, Perm University
dh.psu.ru facebook.com/dhpsuru twitter.com/DH_PSU
dinara@psu.ru

2. Perm Province Periodicals: 1914-1922
permnewspapers.ru

3. Project
• The Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War in the Perm Provincial
Periodicals: Source-Study Analysis (2016-2017)
• Perm Province Periodicals (1914-1919) as a historical source for the
First World War study: Information System Creation and Source Study
Analysis (2014-2015)
• Web-site “First World War in Perm Province Periodicals”
permnewspapers.ru
• Partner: Perm Regional Museum

4. Newspapers collection
• 13 titles
• ≈ 2500 issues
• ≈ 4600 publications
• 1914-1922:
• Imperial Russia,
• the First World War
• the 1917 Revolution
• the Civil War
• different ideological and political movements
• poor physical condition

5. Newspapers collection
• official periodicals of provincial administration of Imperial Russia:
• “Пермские губернские ведомости” (“Perm Province Bulletin”);
• official periodicals of the 1917 Revolution and the Provisional Government
period:
• “Вестник Пермского края” (“Herald of Perm Region”),
• “Пермский вестник Временного правительства” (“Perm Herald of Provisional
Government”);
• official newspapers of various levels councils:
• provincial level:
• “Известия Пермского губернского комитета” (“News of Perm Provincial Committee”);
• branch level:
• “Известия исполнительного комитета Совета железнодорожных депутатов Пермской железной
дороги” (“Proceedings of the Executive Committee of the Board of Railway Deputies of Perm
Railroad”);
• district (uyezd) level:
• “Известия Осинского исполнительного комитета Совета крестьянских, рабочих и солдатских
депутатов” (“News of Osa Executive Committee of Peasants, Workers and Soldiers Deputies”);
• official gazette of the Perm Province Zemstvo:
• “Пермская земская неделя” (“Perm Zemstvo Week”).

6. Stages
• …
• Digitizing – images
• OCR – PDF files
• Information modeling – DB. Approaches:
• Source-oriented
• Problem-oriented
• Method-oriented
• Mixed
• Input and annotating data
• Tools
• Research
• ….

7. Newspaper’s level
• name,
• period of publication,
• editor,
• archeographic description
• description in free form
• hyperactive list of available issues.

8. Newspaper’s level

9. Information about issue

10. Information
about an article
• title,
• newspaper,
• date,
• issue number,
• pages,
• author,
• rubric,
• type of publication,
• mentioned persons,
• mentioned place-names,
• keywords
• text

11. Search by rubrics

12. Search by
article’s types

13. Date search

14. Expanded search

15. What we can obtain?
•Quantitative characteristics,
•samples for various themes of publications,
•samples for specific items of publications,
•the most common types and rubrics
•a kind of distant reading
•…

16. References
• Kornienko S., Gagarina D. The First World War in Perm Provincial Periodicals
// Digital Humanities 2016. Conference Abstracts. Jagiellonian University &
Pedagogical University. Kraków. 11–16 July 2016. Pp. 608-609.
• Kornienko S., Gagarina D. Information systems: new methods of Russian history
sources study // Social Sciences & Arts SGEM 2015. Conference Proceedings.
Anthropology, Archaeology, History and Philosophy. Sofia, 2015. Pp. 337-343.
• Gagarina D., Kornienko S. Digital Editions of Russian Provincial Periodicals for
Scholarly Usage // Digital Editions: Academia, Cultural Heritage, Society. Cologne,
2016.
• Kornienko S.I., Gagarina D.A., Kharisova A.R. Meta description as a kind of distant
reading of provincial periodicals collections // Цифровая гуманитаристика:
ресурсы, методы, исследования: материалы Междунар. науч. конф., 2017. Ч.
1. С. 131-134.

17. Thank for your attention!
Dinara Gagarina
Center for Digital Humanities, Perm University
dh.psu.ru facebook.com/dhpsuru twitter.com/DH_PSU
dinara@psu.ru