Jon Christensen
Jon Christensen is a founder and principal investigator in the
Spatial History Project and the
City Nature digital humanities project at Stanford University, and former executive director of the
Bill Lane Center for the American West. In the fall of 2012, he will join the
History Department and the
Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he looks forward to working with the
Center for Digital Humanities as well.
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Mapping Texts is an ambitious project with a simple mission: to experiment with new methods for finding and analyzing meaningful patterns embedded within massive collections of digitized historical newspapers.
Why do we think this is important?
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In building Mapping Texts we wanted to create more transparent windows into the extraordinary wealth of information available in online archives of digitized historical newspapers. We wanted, for example, to be able to see how much information was available for any particular time and place, and then measure just how much of that information was still recognizable — and thus useable — after the digitization process.
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