This workshop will introduce participants to the Atlas of Digitised Newspapers and Metadata and explore emerging methodologies for working across multiple digitised collections including the development of the Scissors-and-Paste Database. It will work with participants to develop best practice in searching, browsing, mining, and interrogating online collections and working with a variety of tools to build up a contextualised and robust dataset for a variety of different projects as well as discuss how the history of newspapers and newspaper archives continues to shape our historical scholarship.

Participants are encouraged to read an annotated copy of M. H. Beals, “Triangulating Patterns of Textual Reappearance and Attribution in the Caledonian Mercury, 1820-1840,” Victorian Periodicals Review 51, no. 4 (2018): 616–639, https://doi.org/10.1353/vpr.2018.0046

available at https://model-articles.rrchnm.org/articles/beals/