Impresso Inspect and Compare. Visual Comparison of Semantically Enriched Historical Newspaper Articles

The automated enrichment of mass-digitised document collections using techniques such as text mining is becoming increasingly popular. Enriched offer new opportunities for interface design to allow data-driven and visualisation-based search, exploration interpretation. Most interfaces integrate close distant reading represent semantic, spatial, social or temporal relations, but often lack contrastive views. Inspect Compare (I&C) contributes the current state art in historical newspapers with highly versatile side-by-side comparisons query results curated article sets based on metadata semantic enrichments. I&C takes search queries pre-curated inputs allows distributions newspaper titles, publication dates automatically generated enrichments, language, types, topics named entities. Contrastive views data reveal patterns, help humanities scholars improve strategies facilitate a critical assessment overall quality. part impresso digitised semantically enriched newspapers.