Liimatta, Aatu, Mäkelä, Eetu, Ginter, Filip, Rastas, Iiro, Tihonen, Iiro, Zhang, Jinbin, Pivovarova, Lidia, Tolonen, Mikko, K, Milja, Babbar, Rohit, Wang, Ruilin, Säily, Tanja, Ryan, Yann Ciarán, Scholger, Walter, Vogeler, Georg, Tasovac, Toma, Baillot, Anne, Raunig, Elisabeth, Scholger, Martina, Steiner, Elisabeth, Centre for Information Modelling, and Helling, Patrick
Subjects
Paper, historiography, historical thesaurus, bibliographic analysis, History, Long Presentation, ecco, cultural analytics, Book and print history, natural language processing, artificial intelligence and machine learning, bert
Abstract
This paper combines text reuse detection (using software developed for protein string detection) with genre classification based on the Bert transformer model, to understand changing patterns of genre and intextuality in a large dataset of eighteenth century British and Irish texts.
PAPER, HISTORY of technology, PAPERMAKERS, HISTORIOGRAPHY, SCHOLARLY method, HISTORY of scholarly method
Abstract
Comparative writing about the history of science and technology in different cultures tends to assume that differences in the ways in which these cultures write their histories are not important. But this is unlikely to be the case. The comparative lack of historical writing about printing in China by European standards should not in itself lead us to conclude that print only played a minor role there, any more than the tendency to downplay the importance of paper among historians of the European book means that its use in Europe was less significant than in other cultures. That in China the relative balance of the historical record is the opposite of the one that we tend to assume on the basis of the European experience is demonstrated here by contrasting the dearth of information about early printing with the commemoration even of relatively marginal cultural figures through the traditional Chinese historiography of paper making. But only tentative suggestions can be made as to why these differences in historical writing may have occurred. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
The article examines how type bibles are being treated with more reverence by print historiography enthusiasts in 2016. Topics covered include how type specimen books are sources of all kinds of socio-historical and political documentation and how digital foundries such as Emigre, Hoefler, and Terminal continue to manufacture paper specimen sheets and posters as homages to the past.
Published
2016
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