LACLICHEV: Exploring the History of Climate Change in Latin America within Newspapers Digital Collections
Genoveva Vargas-Solar, Jos\'e-Luis Zechinelli-Martini, Javier A., Espinosa-Oviedo, Luis M. Vilches-Bl\'azquez

TL;DR
LACLICHEV is a platform that enables exploration and analysis of historical Latin American newspapers to understand climate change patterns through data retrieval, geographic visualization, and vocabulary analysis.
Contribution
The paper presents LACLICHEV, a novel environment integrating data exploration, geographic querying, and vocabulary analysis for studying historical climate change reports in Latin American newspapers.
Findings
Tools for curating and exploring newspaper articles
Identification of patterns in meteorological reporting
Enhanced understanding of climate change history in Latin America
Abstract
This paper introduces LACLICHEV (Latin American Climate Change Evolution platform ), a data collections exploration environment for exploring historical newspapers searching for articles reporting meteorological events. LACLICHEV is based on data collections' exploration techniques combined with information retrieval, data analytics, and geographic querying and visualization. This environment provides tools for curating, exploring and analyzing historical newspapers articles, their description and location, and the vocabularies used for referring to meteorological events. The objective being to understand the content of newspapers and identifying possible patterns and models that can build a view of the history of climate change in the Latin American region.
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