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                   Prebuild and trained Word2Vec dictionaries ready for use Two different prebuild big data Word2Vec dictionaries has been added to LOAR (Library Open Access Repository) for download. These dictionaries are build from the text of 55,000 e-books from Project Gutenberg … Continue reading →

The SolrWayback software bundle can be used to search and playback archived webpages in Warc format. It is an out of the box solution with index workflow, Solr and Tomcat webserver and a free text search interface with playback functionality. … Continue reading →

Another ‘google innovation week’ at work has produced the SolrWayback Machine. It works similar to the Internet Archive: Wayback Machine (https://archive.org/web/) and can be used to show harvested web content (Warc files).  The Danish Internet Archive has over 20billion harvested … Continue reading →

Creating large collages of images to give a bird’s eye view of a collection seems to be gaining traction. Two recent initiatives: The New York Public Library has a very visually pleasing presentation of public domain digitizations, but with a … Continue reading →

This abstract has been accepted for Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 2nd Conference, http://dhn2017.eu/ In the Danish Newspaper Archive[1] you can search and view 26 million newspaper pages. The search engine[2] uses OCR (optical character recognition) from scanned pages … Continue reading →

In The Danish Newspaper Archive you can search in 25million newspaper pages and view the pages. The search engine uses OCR (optical character recognition) from scanned pages but often the software reading the text from the scanned images makes reading … Continue reading →

In this blog post I tried to make an method for a computer to  read a text and analyse the characters and then make a 2D visualization of the similarity of the characters. To achieve this I am using the … Continue reading →

This is about web archiving, corpus creation and replay of web sites. No fancy bit fiddling here, sorry. There is currently some debate on CDX, used by the Wayback Engine, Open Wayback and other web archive oriented tools, such as … Continue reading →