Other interesting projects

The ARGOT project is priviliged to have as main supervisor Professor Diana Roig-Sanz (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya), principal investigator of the ERC Project Social Networks of the Past. Mapping Hispanic and Lusophone Literary Modernity, 1898-1959. ARGOT has also received invaluable support from Rocío Ortuño Casanova (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia), who is hosting a research stay as part of the project. Rocío Ortíz is developing the DigiPhiLit project, involving universities in the Philippines, Belgium, France and Spain, to study Philippine literature using digital methods.

Fortunately, many other projects that focus on the study of the periodical press using digital humanities tools have been or are being developed in recent years. Some of them are:

• NewsEye, a research project that introduces new concepts, methods and tools for the digital humanities, in order to provide better access to historical newspapers for a wide range of users.

• In France, Numapresse aims to renew cultural and literary history by highlighting the structural strengths of the French press from the 19th century to the present day. It is based on the digitisation of newspapers and press databases to create new digital tools and a methodology that combines contributions from literary studies, cultural history, discourse analysis and information and communication sciences.

• The Viral Texts project developed theoretical models to improve understanding of the qualities – both textual and thematic – that made certain news items, short stories and poems ‘viral’ in 19th-century newspapers and magazines.

• Relatedly, the Oceanic Exchanges / The Atlas project brought together leading efforts in computational research on periodicals from six countries – Finland, Germany, Mexico, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States – to examine patterns of information flow across national and linguistic boundaries.

• The aim of the Impresso project was to develop a media tracking suite for historical newspapers, driven by research objectives in computational linguistics, history and design. In 2022, it received new funding to integrate radio programming into its research.

• While not necessarily focused on digital humanities, the transnational network Transfopress aims to study the foreign language press (18th-20th centuries). Transfopress has an extensive network of associated researchers in several countries and holds an annual meeting.