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

这个项目对英国的历史音景进行了数字研究。通过融合来自社会经济历史、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接触的更深入理解的呼吁（Pijanowski等人，2011），以及对数字化声音研究的进步（Clement, 2016）。大英图书馆（BL）无与伦比的文本和声音档案使其成为该项目的理想合作伙伴。除了在多媒体数字历史研究方面做出重大贡献外，该项目的方法还激发了它与英国图书馆的合作，探索这些方法如何为解读馆藏提供新的途径和方法。这个项目结合了传统的文本历史方法和大数据方法来研究19世纪主要收藏中的声音表现。该项目将解决ESRC关注的问题，包括：心理健康（战略优先事项）、跨学科研究（anNWSSDTP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）。它要求:1。从19世纪大量的写作语料库中，我们可以了解到英国历史上的什么音景？如何将数字方法与传统的历史研究方法结合起来，对历史声景及其与当今声音体验的相关性产生新的理解？19世纪，随着工业化、城市化和旅游业的发展，声音的体验和表现方式发生了怎样的变化？音景的这些变化如何影响当代与自然世界和城市环境的互动和态度？接触不同类型的声音对人们的身心健康有积极和消极的影响，这些历史教训对我们今天的经历有什么启示？图书馆馆藏的数字人文方法对文物组织的活动有何贡献？

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?