Call for papers | Digitised newspapers, a new Eldorado for historians ? (24-25.04.2020, Lausanne)
Digitised newspapers, a new Eldorado for historians ? – Epistemology, methodology, tools and the changing practice of historiography in the context of mass digitisation of newspapers.
24-25.04.2020, EPFL, Lausanne (Switzerland), DHlab
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The large-scale digitisation of newspapers over the past decade has facilitated access to newspaper collections but also raised a series of issues for both libraries and users, and more specifically researchers: What does it mean to work in new ways with the traditional historical source that are newspapers? How does the formal transformation of this source from analogue, microfilm and paper collections to digital ones affect research practices and questions?