Annual review of information technology developments for economic and social historians, 1994.

The writer presents a summary overview of recent developments in information technology for economic and social historians, together with a detailed comparative review of a major class of applications software: text base management systems (TBMS). The writer explains that TBMS ranges from text ret...

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Published in:Economic History Review Vol. 48; pp. 370 - 396
Main Author: Middleton, Roger
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell May 1995
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Summary:The writer presents a summary overview of recent developments in information technology for economic and social historians, together with a detailed comparative review of a major class of applications software: text base management systems (TBMS). The writer explains that TBMS ranges from text retrieval to text processing and analysis, and he contends that the explosion in the volume of machine-readable materials now available is so large that British economic historians all require TBMS.