Two new notebooks about the papers presented at #CHR2022. One about finding unseen sailors [1] and another one about functional diversity as an alternative to lexical diversity [2]
[1] https://www.karsdorp.io/posts/20221215175357-what_shall_we_do_with_the_unseen_sailor/
[2] https://www.karsdorp.io/posts/20220926232754-lexical_diversity/
What Shall We Do with the Unseen Sailor?
Bias in historical records At the Computational Humanities Research conference 2022 held in Antwerp from December 12 to 14, I co-presented a new paper with Melvin Wevers on missing data in historical archives. The paper was pubslished with CEUR-WS and can be found here: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3290/short_paper1793.pdf. Missing data is rather the norm than the exception in historical archives. There are virtually endless reasons why records did not survive the test of time: they might have been lost due to natural causes, such as fires, decisions on the level of archival policy making, but also due to content production biases.

