Paper Miner: Geo-Temporal Indexes for Australian Newspapers Online

This resource consists ofa) the full text in uncorrected ASCII format of the corpus of Australian newspapers offered online by the Australia National Library andb) indexes of entities appearing in the corpus with mark-up enabling their geo-temporal visualisation and the place of publication of newspapers in which reference to the entities appears.PaperMiner is a prototype service addressing the needs of researchers with interests in Australian history and culture to be able to understand the significance of investigating spatial and temporal relations between people, places, events and ideas in the National Library of Australia’s massive online corpora of Australian Newspapers.