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Day: December 21, 2016

2016 – a year online

It’s the time of year for reviewing the year. As with last year, I’m going to put up a short series of posts on some of the cultural things that distracted my attention from the news, if only for a while (not that I’m actually complaining about the news – for a news archivist theseRead More

Luke McKernan December 21, 2016December 10, 2019Comments (2)

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@britishlibrary @BL_newsroom Here’s a ‘zoomed in’ version, showing just those with a length of ten years or less: 3/3

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@britishlibrary @BL_newsroom I calculated the total titles held for each year, then worked out the run length for each of those titles (using the difference between the start date and _that_ year), so this visualises how the title run length would have looked at the time 2/3

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Another chart using the @britishlibrary @BL_newsroom metadata on newspapers available here: https://doi.org/10.23636/1136. This time, trying to visualise the spread of run lengths for the collection and how that changed over time 1/3

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