@inproceedings{110685a2618242afbd41278c25a5b50c,
title = "Scaled entity search: A method for media historiography and response to critiques of big humanities data research",
abstract = "Search has been unfairly maligned within digital humanities big data research. While many digital tools lack a wide audience due to the uncertainty of researchers regarding their operation and/or skepticism towards their utility, search offers functions already familiar and potentially transparent to a range of users. To adapt search to the scale of Big Data, we offer Scaled Entity Search (SES). Designed as an interpretive method to accompany an under-construction application that allows users to search hundreds or thousands of entities across a corpus simultaneously, SES balances critical reflection on the entities, corpus, and digital with an appreciation of how all of these factors interact to shape both our results and our future questions. Using examples from film and broadcasting history, we demonstrate the process and value of SES as performed over a corpus of 1.3 million pages of media industry documents.",
keywords = "Big data critiques, Film, Historiography, Radio, Search",
author = "Eric Hoyt and Kit Hughes and Derek Long and Anthony Tran and Kevin Ponto",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2014 IEEE.; 2nd IEEE International Conference on Big Data, IEEE Big Data 2014 ; Conference date: 27-10-2014 Through 30-10-2014",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.1109/BigData.2014.7004453",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings - 2014 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, IEEE Big Data 2014",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "51--59",
editor = "Wo Chang and Jun Huan and Nick Cercone and Saumyadipta Pyne and Vasant Honavar and Jimmy Lin and Hu, {Xiaohua Tony} and Charu Aggarwal and Bamshad Mobasher and Jian Pei and Raghunath Nambiar",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 2014 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, IEEE Big Data 2014",
address = "United States",
}