boutique big data: understanding 19th-century reprint culture with plagiarism detection software
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BOUTIQUE BIG DATAUnderstanding 19th-Century Reprint Culture With Plagiarism Detection SoftwareM. H. Beals (ORCID: 0000-0002-2907-3313)Loughborough University@MHBEALS
THE HISTORICAL PROBLEM• Culture of Reprinting in 18th and 19th Centuries
• Inconsistent Attribution
• Inconsistent Survival of Network Components
• Limited Historiographical Resources
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COPYFIND REPRINT DETECTION• Freeware Programme Developed by Lou Bloomfield
http://plagiarism.bloomfieldmedia.com/z-wordpress/software/copyfind/
• Highly Customisable Search As Well as Open Source
• Measures Left, Right and Overall Matches
• Displays Left-Right Comparisons of Text
• Extremely Effective at Discovering OCR-Transcribed Matches
Image Courtesy of the Lou Bloomfield at http://rabi.phys.virginia.edu/lab3e/
COPYFIND REPRINT DETECTION• Freeware Programme Developed by Lou Bloomfield
http://plagiarism.bloomfieldmedia.com/z-wordpress/software/copyfind/
• Highly Customisable Search As Well as Open Source
• Measures Left, Right and Overall Matches
• Displays Left-Right Comparisons of Text
• Extremely Effective at Discovering OCR-Transcribed Matches
Image Courtesy of the Lou Bloomfield at http://rabi.phys.virginia.edu/lab3e/
ESTABLISHING LIKELY CANDIDATES
• Single Year (1810-1819) Contained over 200,000 Possible Matches
• Removed Internal (Same Title) Reprints
• Restricted Match Size (90 Right, 90 Left or 160 Overall)
• Restricted Date Separation (200 Days)
1810
1811
1812
1813
1814
1815
1816
1817
DIRECTIONALITY• Reprint Maps are Non-Linear,
Similar to Phytogenic Trees
• Paths of Specific Branches Dictated by Date, Content, Errors
• Similar Method to Meme-Tracking (Adamic et al, 2014)
• Attributions Are Often Red Herrings
1818-1819
“WITHIN THIS COLLECTION”
WWW.SCISSORSANDPASTE.NET
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THANK YOUM. H. Beals (ORCID: 0000-0002-2907-3313)Loughborough University@MHBEALS