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     Publication of the Special Issue on HistoInformatics at JDMDH
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The special issue on Computational Approaches to History
(HistoInformatics) of the Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities
(JDMDH) has just been published online with free access at the following
url: https://jdmdh.episciences.org/section/view/id/105

Researchers interested in (1) the support for historical research and
analysis in general through the application of computer science theories
or technologies, (2) the analysis and re-use of historical texts, (3)
the visualization of historical data, and (4) the provision of access to
historical knowledge, will find interesting pointers within this special
issue. In particular, you will find the following papers:

[1] Plague Dot Text: Text mining and annotation of outbreak reports of
the Third Plague Pandemic (1894-1952)
Casey, Arlene ; Bennett, Mike ; Tobin, Richard ; Grover, Claire ;
Walker, Iona ; Engelmann, Lukas ; Alex, Beatrice.

[2] Combining visual and textual features for semantic segmentation of
historical newspapers
Barman, Raphaël ; Ehrmann, Maud ; Clematide, Simon ; Oliveira, Sofia
Ares ; Kaplan, Frédéric.

[3] Character segmentation in asian collector's seal imprints: An
attempt to retrieval based on ancient character typeface
Li, Kangying ; Batjargal, Biligsaikhan ; Maeda, Akira.

[4] Digital interfaces of historical newspapers: opportunities,
restrictions and recommendations
Pfanzelter, Eva ; Oberbichler, Sarah ; Marjanen, Jani ; Langlais,
Pierre-Carl ; Hechl, Stefan.

[5] Indigenous frameworks for data-intensive humanities: recalibrating
the past through knowledge engineering and generative modelling.
Shep, Sydney ; Frean, Marcus ; Owen, Rhys ; Pope, Rere-No-A-Rangi ;
Reihana, Pikihuia ; Chan, Valerie.

[6] How to read the 52.000 pages of the british journal of psychiatry? A
collaborative approach to source exploration
Andersen, Eva ; Biryukov, Maria ; Kalyakin, Roman ; Wieneke, Lars.

[7] The expansion of isms, 1820-1917: Data-driven analysis of political
language in digitized newspaper collections
Marjanen, Jani ; Kurunmäki, Jussi ; Pivovarova, Lidia ; Zosa, Elaine.

Good reading!

Gaël Dias, Adam Jatowt, Melvin Wevers and Mohammed Hasanuzzaman
Guest editors of the HistoInformatics special issue.