The future of the past.
The article presents a profile of the field of digital history, or the application of digital technology on the archiving and analysis of historical resources, developing in the 21st-century. Details are given describing how web site-based archiving and text-mining algorithms have grown in use since...
| Publicado en: | History Today Vol. 60; no. 4; pp. 52 - 54 |
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History Today Ltd.
Apr2010
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| Sumario: | The article presents a profile of the field of digital history, or the application of digital technology on the archiving and analysis of historical resources, developing in the 21st-century. Details are given describing how web site-based archiving and text-mining algorithms have grown in use since the 1990s. Commentary is also provided citing how the large-scale growth in primary source aggregation has led to improvements in historical research. The impact of interactive web media such as blogs on the historical scholarship of the discipline is also addressed. |
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