Newspaper history almost conspires to be difficult data eg. titles changing their name through time
We designed Press Picker to help get a handle on @britishlibrary newspapers - concentrating on the different formats the Library holds (important to know for digitisation)
We used a dense design to fit in lots of information
and make name changes clear by bringing together connected titles with branching
We're working on getting the code ready to share and we hope it will be a useful tool for other libraries too.
I’ve shared a collection of 4 @observablehq notebooks about drawing and animating 'waterlines'—an old technique for showing water in maps—in JavaScript