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...
| Published in: | Economic History Review Vol. 48; pp. 370 - 396 |
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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. |
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