Category: Showcase

Floods, Rivers and Historical Newspapers: Exploring the Past through Data

This project offers an alternative means to explore historical data through newspapers by investigating, through subject data, aspects of flood prevention in the recent past. Following this summer’s exceptional heat wave and drought, do we need to prepare for an onslaught of storms and thus, need to consider how to reduce the impact of flooding?…
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Researching Historical Periods using Newspapers

This project offers an alternative means to explore historical periods through newspapers published during the lifetimes of notable individuals. In this project, we investigate the means by which Luxembourgish newspapers treated information during historical periods, and take, as an example, the First World War (WWI).

Using Data from Digitised Newspapers

This project uses data from Wikidata to provide a list of newspapers published during the lifetime of a chosen person. The goals of the project are to provide a list of newspapers available in eluxemburgensia.lu adhering to the given criteria, provide a link to the selected newspapers on the eluxemburgensia.lu website and demonstrate how to…
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