Using the 1600 Experiment[1] dataset[2] and a set of custom made python scripts, we created a prototype data visualization platform that permits the user to navigate through the data and gives us a vision of the news network from January…
Category: Project Progress
A LEGIBLE HANDWhen Camillo Baldi investigated the ways and means of detecting human personality through the symbols scrawled by pen on page in a 1622 treatise on “how a single piece of correspondence can reveal the nature and quality of…
Shocking news from Hungary: according to a source in Graz writing on January 17 1600, “By the last letters . . . there is a report that Ibrahim Bassa, after having strangled the chief of the Tatars, as was already…
The difference between these two images is obvious, but it isn’t as substantial as we might think. On the left, there is the New York Times front page of the 27th of March, with a photo, a half page-wide graph…
A woman sits in the Archive reading room, where she has managed to arrive after many interruptions connected with the details of her PhD degree program. On her table there stands a huge folder containing unbound documents of the first…
Now that normality feels so distant, we want to remember what a ‘normal’ day used to look like for our EURONEWS team. Our normal day would start with a nice walk to the Florence State Archive – not the most…
September 2019 marked the beginning of the EURONEWS Project, funded by the Irish Research Council and hosted by University College Cork in collaboration with the Medici Archive Project. The EURONEWS team is embarking on a challenging adventure: analysing, classifying, and…