From Sources to Data: Medievalists, Demographers, and Computer Scientists Producing a Database from a Quattrocento Census (1964–1978).

Recent research in the discipline of history has explored the extent to which the datafication of historical sources has transformed the historian's craft. Despite a significant body of knowledge, the crucial issue of the epistemological status of data is still overlooked in the discipline. Followin...

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Published in:	History of Humanities Vol. 10; no. 2; pp. 397 - 426
Main Author:	Lejeune, Edgar
Format:	Article
Published:	University of Chicago Press Fall2025
Subjects:	Historical source material Theory of knowledge Electronic data processing Access to information Historical analysis Census Interdisciplinary research
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost