Alternative Database Structures for Prosopographical Research.
As digital prosopography has developed as a discipline in historical research over the last three decades, and as changes in technology have provided more options for its underlying systems, the potential scope of the field has expanded likewise. This expansion in both what can be done and how it ca...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of Humanities & Arts Computing: A Journal of Digital Humanities Vol. 15; no. 1/2; pp. 117 - 133 |
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Edinburgh University Press
Oct2021
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