Discovering the nineteenth-century soundscape through text mining: A big data approach

该项目对英国历史上的声景进行了数字研究。通过融合来自社会经济史、语料库语言学和人文地理学的多学科方法，它响应了对人类与环境的感官参与的更多理解的呼吁(Pijanowski等人)。(2011年)，以及推进以数字为导向的声音研究(Clement 2016)。大英图书馆无与伦比的文本和声音档案使其成为这个项目的理想合作伙伴。除了对多媒体数字历史研究做出重大贡献外，该项目的方法还激发了它与BL的接触，以探索这些方法如何允许新的访问和解释其收藏的方法。该项目将传统的文本历史方法与大数据方法相结合，以检查19世纪主要收藏中的声音表示。该项目将解决ESRC关注的问题，包括：精神健康(战略优先事项)、跨学科研究(NWSSDTP优先事项)和“支持利用英国优秀数据资源的研究”(战略计划第7页)。它的问题是：1.我们可以从19世纪的大型语料库中了解到关于英国历史音景的什么？2.如何结合传统的历史研究方法来利用数字方法来对历史音景及其与今天的声音体验的相关性产生新的理解？3.在19世纪的工业化、城市化和旅游业过程中，声音的体验和表现是如何变化的？4.这些音景的变化如何影响当代与自然世界和城市环境的互动？5.接触不同类型的声音如何影响人们的幸福感和心理健康，无论是积极的还是消极的方式，这些历史教训能教会我们今天的经验吗？6.对BL收藏品的数字人文方法能为遗产组织的活动做出什么贡献？

This project conducts a digital study of Britain's historical soundscape. Through a fusion ofmultidisciplinary approaches adopted from socio-economic history, corpus linguistics and humangeography, it responds to calls for more developed understandings of humans' sensoryengagements with the environment (Pijanowski et al. 2011), and for the advancement of digitallyorientated sound studies (Clement 2016). The British Library's (BL) unparalleled text and soundarchives make it an ideal partner for this project. In addition to making significant contributions tomulti-media digital history studies, the project's methodology inspires its engagement with the BLto explore how these approaches can allow new access to and means of interpreting theircollections.This project combines traditional historical approaches to text with big data methodologies toexamine the representation of sound in a major nineteenth-century collection. The project willaddress ESRC concerns including: mental health (a strategic priority), inter-disciplinary research (anNWSSDTP priority) and "supporting research that exploits the UK's excellent data resources"(Strategic Plan p. 7). It asks:1. What can we learn about the historical British soundscape from a large corpus ofnineteenth-century writing?2. How can digital approaches be utilised alongside traditional historical research methods togenerate new understandings about the historical soundscape and its relevance to today'sacoustic experiences?3. How did the experience and representation of sound change in light of industrialisation,urbanisation and tourism over the course of the nineteenth century?4. How did these changes to the soundscape impact on contemporary interactions with, andattitudes towards, the natural world and urban environments?5. How did exposure to different types of sound affect people's wellbeing and mental healthin both positive and negative ways, and what can these historical lessons teach us abouttoday's experiences?6. What contributions can digital humanities approaches to the BL's collections make to aheritage organisation's activities?