Big Data and the Military: First World War Personnel Records in Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand and British Africa.

The digitisation of a large number of First World War personnel files in different countries permits novel big data analyses that contribute in important ways to the histories of the British Empire and of individual countries including Australia. Mass digitisation is very recent; we are only beginni...

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Published in:	Australian Historical Studies Vol. 47; no. 3; pp. 430 - 443
Main Authors:	Inwood, Kris, Ross, J. Andrew
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Sep2016
Subjects:	Big data Military records World War II veterans Information storage & retrieval systems Social structure Historians Veterans
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost