TY - GEN
T1 - Documenting social unrest
T2 - 5th International Conference on Social Informatics, SocInfo 2013
AU - Zervanou, Kalliopi
AU - Düring, Marten
AU - Hendrickx, Iris
AU - Van Den Bosch, Antal
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - The identification of relevant historical sources such as newspapers and letters and the extraction of information from them is an essential part of historical research. In this work, our aim is the detection of relevant primary sources with the goal to support researchers working on a specific historical event. We focus on the historical daily Dutch newspaper archive of the National Library of the Netherlands and strike events that happened in the Netherlands during the 1980s. Using a manually compiled database of strikes in the Netherlands, we first attempt to find reports on those strikes in historical daily newspapers by automatically associating database records to the daily press of the time covering the same strike. Then, we generalise our methodology to detect strike events in the press not currently covered by the strikes database, and support in this way the extension of secondary historical resources. Our methods are evaluated against the manually constructed database of strikes.
AB - The identification of relevant historical sources such as newspapers and letters and the extraction of information from them is an essential part of historical research. In this work, our aim is the detection of relevant primary sources with the goal to support researchers working on a specific historical event. We focus on the historical daily Dutch newspaper archive of the National Library of the Netherlands and strike events that happened in the Netherlands during the 1980s. Using a manually compiled database of strikes in the Netherlands, we first attempt to find reports on those strikes in historical daily newspapers by automatically associating database records to the daily press of the time covering the same strike. Then, we generalise our methodology to detect strike events in the press not currently covered by the strikes database, and support in this way the extension of secondary historical resources. Our methods are evaluated against the manually constructed database of strikes.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84901675820&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-55285-4_10
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-55285-4_10
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84901675820
SN - 9783642552847
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 120
EP - 133
BT - Social Informatics - SocInfo 2013 International Workshops QMC and HISTOINFORMATICS, Revised Selected Papers
PB - Springer
Y2 - 25 November 2013 through 25 November 2013
ER -