Seeing @ryancordell.org work out more skeuomorphisms and then a few minutes later…
Congratulate @djevans.bsky.social on defending his brilliant dissertation, “The Layered Incompleteness of Historical Data: Newspaper Directories and the Construction of the Bibliographic Record, 1869–1925”—one of the best examples I’ve read marrying rich historical & advanced computational research
Dan created a computational pipeline to extract newspaper metadata from Rowells’ & Ayers’ annual newspaper directories—including fields like circulation, genre, & language—creating a rich, longitudinal dataset that will help scholars analyse newspapers’ evolution over the 19th & early 20th centuries