This essay explores the consequences for historians' research of the twinned transnational
and digitized turns. The accelerating digitization of primary and secondary sources and the …

An original methodological framework for approaching the archived web, both as a source
and as an object of study in its own right. As life continues to move online, the web becomes …

A growing volume of heritage data is being digitized and made available as text via optical
character recognition (OCR). Scholars and libraries are increasingly using OCR-generated …

" Milligan's book rejects the most positivist claims advocated by ardent cliometricians and
digital humanities. He does not believe quantity trumps quality. More of something does not …

Generating visualizations at the size of a word creates dense information representations
often called sparklines. The integration of word-sized graphics into text could avoid …

The majority of machine learning (ML) experiments in libraries stem from a simple reality:
human time, attention, and labor will always be severely limited in proportion to the …

After decades of large-scale digitization, many historical newspaper collections are just one
click away via online portals developed and supported by various public or private …

Purpose The paper examines academic historians' information interactions with material
from digital historical-newspaper collections as the research process unfolds …

This article argues that scholars must understand mass digitized texts as assemblages of
new editions, subsidiary editions, and impressions of their historical sources, and that these …

This timely and lucid guide is intended for students and scholars working on all historical
periods and topics in the humanities and social sciences--especially for those who do not …