Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss

with apologies to @xkcd.com

After five years, Newspaper Navigator is undergoing some changes - the dataset will continue on, but it's time to say good bye to the search application. LC Labs and I would love to hear from past users about their experiences with Newspaper Navigator in the comments: blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/20...

Thanks to some stellar work from @djevans.bsky.social, the Viral Texts database now implements a much-requested feature: sorting search results by cluster size. So if you want to start research with the biggest clusters of C19 newspaper reprints about your topic, that’s much easier to do now!

@zoeleblanc.bsky.social @djevans.bsky.social working with serial data. Focusing on periodicals that offer insights into the global south as well as with copyrighted info. A shout out to @bschmidt.bsky.social bc drawing on his approach to sequence alignment. #chr2024

There are many ways to identify texts that seem ahead of their time. Our CHR 2024 paper asks which measures of textual precocity align best with social evidence about influence and change.