I’m glad to have the last chapter of *Going the Rounds*—that will appear as an online draft, at least—“Editing a Paper,” up on the Manifold Scholar site.

This chapter triangulates between multiple sources—such as the digitized newspapers in the Viral Texts corpora, the LoC’s US newspaper directory, and C19 attempts to document newspaper production, to model some fundamental questions like:

+ how many newspapers even were there in the C19 US?
+ in what ways can we consider digitized collections “representative” of C19 papers?
+ what did “newspaper” even mean over the century—in terms of length, format, frequency, &c?
+ how much of papers was reprinted vs. original?

These questions underlie all the work researchers do with digitized historical newspapers but are hard to answer, given the unevenness of preservation & digitization, & are often bypassed, making it hard to contextualize DH findings

https://manifold.umn.edu/read/editing-a-paper/section/fc0597a3-5fe1-439c-86f8-0e47e8a55208