These are the PowerPoint slide for our panel, "The Case for Magazines", at the NewsEye "What's Past Is Prologue" conference. 17 March 2021

1. THE CASE FOR MAGAZINES: CITIZEN SCIENTIST
& CITIZEN HISTORIAN PERSPECTIVES
Jim Salmons & Timlynn Babitsky
Citizen Scientists, Colorado USA
Steven Lomazow, M.D.
Citizen Historian, New Jersey USA
James Hyman
Citizen Historian, London UK
NewsEye Intl Conference, “What’s Past Is Prologue”
16-17 March 2021

2. Our “Lightning” Panel focus will introduce
you to two brilliant Citizen Historians & their
significant Magazine Collections
We trimmed our panel participants & will compress
the tech discussion about our #MAGAZINEgts
ground-truth storage format research
Our goal is to frame the case for shifting a portion
of digitization attention to magazines & to serve as
Matchmaker by introducing you to Citizen Historians
Steven Lomazow & James Hyman

3. The Case for Magazines is made by looking
at sims, diffs, & opportunities…
As serial publications with long histories,
newspapers & magazines are a unique trove of
cultural heritage & human knowledge
While OCR has increasingly tamed text, OLR--layout
recognition--of complex document structures have
been a challenge
We’re ready to move from within-page to whole-
issue digitization pipelines…and beyond

4. Ontological stack of CIDOC-CRM,
FRBRoo, PRESSoo, & PAGEgts
Our DATeCH 2017 & 2019 posters,
GraphGists, etc. evolve OLR ideas
In lieu of elaborating here, please
read http://bit.ly/newseye-magazines
& https://bit.ly/pressoo-magazines
#MAGAZINEgts research is focused on creating a
ground-truth storage format & associated
digitization technologies

5. Steven Lomazow, M.D. & Citizen Historian of
The Great American Magazine Collection
My “A-ha!” Moment
When & why I decided to collect magazines
My Collection Profile
https://www.AmericanMagazineCollection.com
Past & Current Activities & Collection Challenges
Opportunities & Interest in Research Collaboration

6. James Hyman Entrepreneur & Citizen Historian of
HYMAG.com, Guinness World Record for ‘Largest
Collection of Magazines’
My “A-ha!” Moment
When & why I decided to collect magazines
My Collection Profile
https://www.HYMAG.com
Past & Current Activities & Collection Challenges
Opportunities & Interest in Research Collaboration

7. THE WORLD’S LARGEST
COLLECTION OF MAGAZINES

8. DIGITISING HISTORY
SPOTIFY FOR MAGAZINES

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an unparalleled resource of the
richest content on earth.
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print. I’m a digital native, spend my c ollectable. The more
days on social media and grew up published, the more
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I work at a magazine, keep a pile the rarerthey become.’
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stack of glossies from the newsagent is the high- growing but there conti
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• 150,000+ magazines covering 5,000+ titles, content
not held elsewhere either on-line or in hard copy.
• HYMAG also owns Edda Tasiemka’s archive. Known as
‘The Human Google’, her collection of over six million
original newspaper cuttings on every conceivable
subject, spans the 1800s to the noughties.
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the cover of glossies i studious anoraks alike chatter away as they pore
celebrities. Any actor or excitedly overthe pages.
about online but there’s
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magazine,’ saysJamesHyman, the archive’s founder, Needless to say, Turk and Hyman areobses
who chats to visitors as we walk among the shelves, with magazines, from those big-budget shoot
answeringtheir questionswith encyclopedic deftness. what Hy man calls ‘v isual gold’: the seemingly Hymag,‘vintage’
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10. 1850 1925 1950
HYMAG FILLS THE PRE-INTERNET GAPS
(Professor James Boyle, FT: ‘The 20th Century Black Hole’, September 6th, 2009)
HYMAG CONTENT
BEGINS CIRCA 1800s
1975 2000 2010 2020

11. IMPORTANT TO PUBLISHING
INDUSTRY & CONTENT CREATORS
HYMAG is the greatest
magazine resource in the
country...it’s an incredibly
important cultural centre...it’s
incredibly important that you
give a lot of money to keep it
going.
HYMAG’s importance as a
reference point for the fashion
industry (which, in the UK, is
worth about £32 billion) makes
the archive much more than
just a passion project. It’s a
valuable resource and a
testament to the significance of
print publishing.
HYMAG is clearly unique
collection which will be
invaluable to all sorts of
people...a perfect case study
for mass digitization.
Sarah Faulder
(Chief Executive, Publishing
Licensing Society (PLS)
HYMAG is a great cultural
treasure for our nation as a
whole. At a time when the
creative industries are
increasingly important to the
UK economy, this wonderful
repository of magazines adds
real value as a priceless
showcase for our magazine
industry, a sector worth an
estimated £4 billion.
Dylan Jones OBE
(Editor GQ) Clara Strunck
(Features Writer,
Evening Standard
Magazine)
Barry McIlheney
(Former PPA CEO)

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13. DIGITAL, SEARCHABLE,
ANALYTICAL, PREDICTABLE.
THE PAST MAKES THE FUTURE.

14. Thank you NewsEye community for the
opportunity to participate today
Thank you to Dr. Lomazow & James Hyman
Shoutout to Vincent Golden of Am. Antiquarian
Society & to DGfA, 2022 Visiting Research Fellowships
for German scholars of American studies
Reminder about our Roadmap for Citizen Scientist
participation in the Time Machine Project:
https://bit.ly/CitizenScientistsTimeMachine
We welcome DH/AI/ML collaborators