Historical Texts: visualising digital collections

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This demo will showcase Jisc Historical Texts and new collections, features and visualisations that have been developed over the last year. Historical Texts provides access to a wide range of historically significant digital collections that are heavily used in teaching, learning and research including Early English Books Online (EEBO), Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) and 65,000 texts from the British Library. A number of innovative visualisations such as hospital maps, wall of images, timelines, and body parts search have been developed to aid the exploration of the content.

Historical texts:
visualising digital collections
Jonathan Cates, Digital content product manager, Jisc

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Historical texts
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Historical texts
>https://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk
>https://ukmhl.historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk
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What is Historical texts?
> Historical texts is a service that enables you to search, view and download 400,000 texts
published from the late C15th to the long C19th
> It contains four collections:
> Early English Books Online (EEBO) (1473-1700)
> Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) (1701-1800)
> British Library 19th Century collection (1789-1914)
> UK Medical Heritage Library
Including a wealth of content and coverage of subject areas including English literature,
history, geography, science, social science, religion and medicine.
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Early English Books Online (EEBO)
From the first book printed in
English byWilliam Caxton,
EEBO includes over 125,000
titles published in Britain and
British North America, and
works in English printed
elsewhere, between 1473 and
1700 covering a wealth of early
modern materials.
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
A collection of all the books
published in Great Britain and its
colonies during the eighteenth
century, comprising 33 million
pages from more than 180,000
titles. The collection includes
works in English, Dutch, French,
German, Italian, Latin, Spanish
andWelsh.
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British Library 19th Century Collection
More than 65,000 out of
copyright editions from the 19th
century, cover a similarly diverse
range of topics philosophy,
history, poetry and literature.
The collection extends to over
25 million pages of previously
rare and inaccessible content.
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Powerful search
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Powerful search
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Viewer
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Viewer
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UK Medical Heritage Library
The UK Medical Heritage
Library (UKMHL) is the
culmination of a three-year
project between Jisc, the
Internet Archive, theWellcome
Library and nine other partner
institutions to digitise more
than 15 million pages in over
66,000 works.
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UK Medical Heritage Library
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Hospital map
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Hospital map
>Familiar map based interface
>Re-using existing datasets
>False positives
>Partnerships and crowdsourcing?
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Image wall
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Image wall
>Rich visual content
>Highlights the diversity of
the collection
>What is an image?
>Extracting tabular data
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Body parts sunburst
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Body parts sunburst
>Browsing thematic collections
>Hierarchical
>Terminology
>Limitations and accessibility
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Ngram viewer
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Ngram viewer
>Easy to understand
>Term analysis
>Instantly see trends
>Sample bias and limitations
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What next?
>Integrating UKMHL
>A new collection
>Variant spelling search
enhancements
>We’d like to hear from you
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Further information
>Website: http://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk
>Support materials: http://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/support
>YouTube: youtube.com/user/jischistoricaltexts
>Twitter: https://twitter.com/HistoricalTexts
>Helpdesk: historicaltexts@jisc.ac.uk
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Contact details
Jonathan Cates
Digital content product manager
Jonathan.cates@jisc.ac.uk
Any questions?
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