Research project IMPRESSO2

Media Monitoring of the Past II. Beyond Borders: Connecting Historical Newspapers and Radio (IMPRESSO2)

Impresso – Media Monitoring of the Past is an interdisciplinary research project which puts forward the vision of a comprehensive connection between media archives across languages and media types. Starting in 2023, we will build a Western European historical media corpus consisting of newspaper and radio sources, use machine-learning techniques to enrich and interlink them and develop user interfaces for data-driven transnational historical research in comparative perspective.

The project at a glance

  • Start date:
    01 Sep 2023
  • Duration in months:
    41
  • Funding:
    Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) / Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
  • Principal Investigator(s):
    Marten DURING

About

Impresso – Media Monitoring of the Past is an interdisciplinary research project which puts forward the vision of a comprehensive connection between media archives across languages and media types. Starting in 2023, we will build a Western European historical media corpus consisting of newspaper and radio sources, use machine-learning techniques to enrich and interlink them and develop user interfaces for data-driven transnational historical research in comparative perspective. Impresso is a collaboration between the C²DH, EPFL, the 8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½ of Zurich and the 8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½ of Lausanne and 20 partnering media archives and libraries. The project is jointly funded by the Swiss SNF and the Luxembourgish FNR.

Organisation and Partners

  • Digital History & Historiography
  • Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH)
  • Digital Humanities Laboratory (EPFL)
  • History department, 8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½ of Lausanne (UNIL)
  • Department of Computational Linguistics, 8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½ of Zurich (UZH)

Project team

  • Marten DURING, PI
  • Caio DE CASTRO MELLO SANTOS, Project member
  • Estelle BUNOUT, Project member
  • Daniele GUIDO, Project member
  • Ferdaous AFFAN, Project member
  • Vy CAO, Project member
  • Maud Ehrmann, Project member, EPFL-DHLAB (external)
  • Simon Clematide, Project member, UZH-CL (external)
  • Raphaëlle Ruppen Coutaz, Project member, UNIL History Department (external)

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