Illusionary Order: Online Databases, Optical Character Recognition, and Canadian History, 1997-2010.

It all seems so orderly and comprehensive. Instead of firing up the microfilm reader to navigate the Globe and Mail or the Toronto Star, one needs only to log into online newspaper databases. A keyword search, for a particular event, person, or cultural phenomenon, brings up a list of research findi...

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Published in:	Canadian Historical Review Vol. 94; no. 4; pp. 540 - 570
Main Author:	Milligan, Ian
Format:	Article
Published:	University of Toronto Press Dec2013
Subjects:	History Newspapers Historical source material Historical research methods Optical character recognition Canadian history Computer network resources Historiography Canada
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