Historical Texts: visualising digital collections

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.

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

2. Historical texts 08/03/2017 Historical Texts: visualising digital collections (https://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/home) 2

3. Historical texts https://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk https://ukmhl.historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk 08/03/2017 Historical Texts: visualising digital collections (https://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/home) 3

4. 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. 08/03/2017 Historical Texts: visualising digital collections (https://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/home) 4

5. Early English Books Online (EEBO) From the first book printed in English by William 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. 08/03/2017 Historical Texts: visualising digital collections (https://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/home) 5

6. 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 and Welsh. 08/03/2017 Historical Texts: visualising digital collections (https://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/home) 6

7. British Library 19 th 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. 08/03/2017 Historical Texts: visualising digital collections (https://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/home) 7

8. Powerful search 08/03/2017 Historical Texts: visualising digital collections (https://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/home) 8

9. Powerful search 08/03/2017 Historical Texts: visualising digital collections (https://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/home) 9

10. Viewer 08/03/2017 Historical Texts: visualising digital collections (https://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/home) 10

11. Viewer 08/03/2017 Historical Texts: visualising digital collections (https://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/home) 11

12. UK Medical Heritage Library The UK Medical Heritage Library (UKMHL) is the culmination of a three-year project between Jisc , the Internet Archive, the Wellcome Library and nine other partner institutions to digitise more than 15 million pages in over 66,000 works. 08/03/2017 Historical Texts: visualising digital collections (https://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/home) 12

13. UK Medical Heritage Library 08/03/2017 Historical Texts: visualising digital collections (https://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/home) 13

14. Hospital map 08/03/2017 Historical Texts: visualising digital collections (https://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/home) 14

15. Hospital map Familiar map based interface Re-using existing datasets False positives Partnerships and crowdsourcing? 08/03/2017 Historical Texts: visualising digital collections (https://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/home) 15

16. Image wall 08/03/2017 Historical Texts: visualising digital collections (https://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/home) 16

17. Image wall Rich visual content Highlights the diversity of the collection What is an image? Extracting tabular data 08/03/2017 Historical Texts: visualising digital collections (https://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/home) 17

18. Body parts sunburst 08/03/2017 Historical Texts: visualising digital collections (https://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/home) 18

19. Body parts sunburst Browsing thematic collections Hierarchical Terminology Limitations and accessibility 08/03/2017 Historical Texts: visualising digital collections (https://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/home) 19

20. Ngram viewer 08/03/2017 Historical Texts: visualising digital collections (https://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/home) 20

21. Ngram viewer Easy to understand Term analysis Instantly see trends Sample bias and limitations 08/03/2017 Historical Texts: visualising digital collections (https://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/home) 21

22. What next? Integrating UKMHL A new collection Variant spelling search enhancements We’d like to hear from you 08/03/2017 Historical Texts: visualising digital collections (https://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/home) 22

23. 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: [email protected] 08/03/2017 Historical Texts: visualising digital collections (https://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/home) 23

24. > > Contact details Jonathan Cates Digital content product manager [email protected] Any questions? 08/03/2017 Historical Texts: visualising digital collections (https://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/home) 24 Slide