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dc.contributor.authorHitchcock, Tim
dc.date.accessioned2013-04-03T00:04:52Z
dc.date.available2013-04-03T00:04:52Z
dc.date.issued2013-03
dc.identifier.citationHitchcock , T 2013 , ' Confronting the Digital, Or How Academic History Writing London the Plot ' , Cultural and Social History , vol. 10 , no. 1 , pp. 9-23 . https://doi.org/10.2752/147800413X13515292098070
dc.identifier.issn1478-0038
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 1563237
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dc.identifier.otherScopus: 84873650358
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2299/10304
dc.description.abstractThis discussion piece argues that the design and structure of online historical resources and the process of search and discover embodied within them create a series of substantial problems for historians. Algorithm-driven discovery and misleading forms of search, poor OCR, and all the selection biases of a new edition of the Western print archive have changed how we research the past, and the underlying character of the object of study (inherited text). This piece argues that academic historians have largely failed to respond effectively to these challenges and suggests that while they have preserved the form of scholarly good practice, they have ignored important underlying principlesen
dc.format.extent15
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofCultural and Social History
dc.subjectdigital humanities
dc.subjectdigital history
dc.subjectstandards
dc.subjectscholarship
dc.subjectreferencing
dc.subjectOCR
dc.subjectsearch
dc.titleConfronting the Digital, Or How Academic History Writing London the Ploten
dc.contributor.institutionSchool of Humanities
dc.contributor.institutionSocial Sciences, Arts & Humanities Research Institute
dc.contributor.institutionHistory
dc.description.statusPeer reviewed
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