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16 Re-Visualisations of The Caledonian Mercury, 15 June 1835, by Source Type and Source Location with legends and associated data

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posted on 2018-03-25, 23:51 authored by M. H. BealsM. H. Beals
This set of sixteen (16) figures (.png) are re-visualisations the pages of the 15 June 1835 issue of the Caledonian Mercury as stored in the British Library 19th-Century Newspapers, Part 1 digital collection (http://gale.cengage.co.uk/british-library-newspapers/19th-century-british-library-newspapers-part-i.aspx).

They have been shaded to illustrate the purported source type or source location of each article. A horizontal (four page lengths) and vertical (one page height) legend has been included for each set.

They were created using the data set provided (Data_CaledonianMercury_1835615.tsv) and the Newspaper Dissector v.0.2.1.0 (http://dx.doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.1206930).

Data Fields:
Year: The year of the issue in which the snippet (article) appears
Month: The month of the issue in which the snippet (article) appears
Day: The day of the issue in which the snippet (article) appears
Title: The title of the issue in which the snippet (article) appears
Page: The page on which the snippet (article) appears
Column: The column in which the snippet (article) appears, numbered left to right on the page
Snippet: The number of the snippet (article), numbered from top to bottom in the column
Type: The type of content contained in the snippet
Topic: An open-ended description of the content of the snippet
Action Location: The location in which the events mentioned in the snippet take place, recorded as explicitly stated in the snippet
Source Location: The location, title, or name of the source of the snippet, recorded as explicitly stated in the snippet
Source Type: The type of source
Source Location Type: The location of the source
Word Count: The length of the snippet, as determined by optical character recognised transcription

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