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Diane Zorich @dzorich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

@hadro.bsky.social built this tool that quickly "flips" through the contents of a work like a flipbook. Works w/ IIIF manifests, or plain item link from Internet Archive, Library of Congress, The Getty, & other sites. (FWIW, Josh churns out great things from his experiments. You should follow him!)

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Flipbook

Flip through centuries of digitized books by wiggling your mouse. Paste any IIIF manifest. Make GIFs.

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Daniel Evans @djevans.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Is News Tower (2025) on your list? I've been meaning to check it out but then life got in the way

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Daniel Evans @djevans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Agreed! I can't believe more hasn't been written about it. As I'm sure you're aware, Pride gets into it a bit in his 1950 thesis. I also touch on it (mostly bc Pride drew so heavily from Ayer) in a recent article in Scholarly Editing: scholarlyediting.org/issues/43/be...

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Daniel Evans @djevans.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

v cool! I remember @dasmiq.bsky.social doing something similar back in the day by collating multiple exemplars. We ID'd non-determinism through hapax legomena.

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Daniel Evans @djevans.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Took me awhile to take the plunge & glad I did. It's so fulfilling

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Daniel Evans @djevans.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Recently got to see a typecaster use one of these in person. Am I seeing correctly that these are from the H.C. Hansen type foundry? Possibly Hansen Old Style? Very cool.

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Daniel Evans @djevans.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I had luck in defining each symbol as an entity so † == publisher. The OCR wouldn't alway correctly id it so I created a custom entity model that examined parts of the page. i.e. if my ocr model read † as + or =, it'd id it as a publisher. A lot of your symbols are very similar so could be tough.

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Daniel Evans @djevans.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I just finished a dissertation on US-based ad agencies from the same time period. These companies used syndication services to reprint ads via patent insides & stereotypes. Sad to miss your talk, it'd be great to hear more about large-running ad scams.

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Daniel Evans @djevans.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Parsing out the dissertation into articles; stay tuned for those soon

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Daniel Evans @djevans.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Probably later than your time period but I just released a dataset of late 19th and early 20th c African American newspapers found in the Rowell and Ayer directories for a forthcoming article: zenodo.org/records/1942...

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Daniel Evans @djevans.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

I owe you an email but chiming in to say I'm so glad to see at least one other scholar who loves directories

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

!Stop Press! Article on bias in digitised newspaper collections: ’Whose News’, in the new journal of @comphumresearch.bsky.social by Kaspar Beelen, @jonhistorian61.bsky.social, @kmcdono.bsky.social and me. See blog for summary & 🧵 1/7 Article doi.org/10.1017/chr.... Blog is.gd/2IFc30 #dh #c19 🗃️

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Whose news? Critical methods for assessing bias in large historical datasets | Computational Humanities Research | Cambridge Core

Whose news? Critical methods for assessing bias in large historical datasets - Volume 1

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Lauren Tilton @nolauren.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

@zoeleblanc.bsky.social @djevans.bsky.social working with serial data. Focusing on periodicals that offer insights into the global south as well as with copyrighted info. A shout out to @bschmidt.bsky.social bc drawing on his approach to sequence alignment. #chr2024

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