Oceanic Exchanges

Oceanic Exchanges: Tracing Global Information Networks in Historical New spaper Repositories, 1840 -1914 (OcEx) brings together leading efforts in computational periodicals res earch from the nine academic partners in US, Mexico, Germany, the Netherlands, Finland an d the UK to examine patterns of information flow across national and linguistic boundaries in nineteenth century newspapers by linking digitized newspaper corpora currently siloed in natio nal collections. OcEx seeks to break through the conceptual, institutional, and political barriers which have limited working with big humanities data by bringing together historical newspaper experts from different countries and disciplines around common questions; by actively cro ssing the national boundaries that have previously separated digitized newspaper corpora through computat ional analysis; and by illustrating the global connectedness of nineteenth-century newspapers in way s hidden by typical national organizations of digital cultural heritage.

《海洋交流：追溯1840-1914年历史报纸库中的全球信息网络》（OcEx）汇聚了来自美国、墨西哥、德国、荷兰、芬兰及英国九所学术合作伙伴在计算期刊研究领域的杰出成果，旨在探究十九世纪报纸中信息流动跨越民族和语言边界的模式。该项目通过将分散于各国国家收藏中的数字化报纸数据库进行链接，实现了对历史报纸资料的研究。OcEx力图突破概念、制度及政治层面的障碍，这些障碍曾限制了对大规模人文学科数据的处理。项目通过召集不同国家和学科的历史报纸专家围绕共同问题进行探讨，通过积极跨越曾将数字化报纸数据库隔离开来的国家边界，以及通过揭示被典型的数字文化遗产国家组织所隐藏的十九世纪报纸的全球联系，旨在阐明这一历史时期的报纸在全球范围内的相互联系。