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About the Site and API. Introduction Chronicling America provides access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages.
To encourage a wide range of potential uses, we designed several different views of the data we provide, all of which are publicly visible. Each uses common Web protocols, and access is not restricted in any way. You do not need to apply for a special key to use them. Home - CKAN. All articles. David François Huynh - Doctoral Thesis. Today’s Web is full of structured data, but much of it is transmitted in natural language text or binary images that are not conducive to further machine processing by the time it reaches the user’s web browser.
Consequently, casual users—those without programming skills—are limited to whatever features that web sites offer. Encountering a few dozens of addresses of public schools listed in a table on one web site and a few dozens of private schools on another web site, a casual user would have to painstakingly copy and paste each and every address into an online map service, copy and paste the schools’ names, to get a unified view of where the schools are relative to her home. Any more sophisticated operations on data encountered on the Web—such as re-plotting the results of a scientific experiment found online just because the user wants to test a different theory—would be tremendously difficult.
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