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Digital History: Towards New Methodologies

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The field of Digital Humanities is changing the way historians do their research. Historians use tools to query larger data sets and they apply a different methodology to tackle certain research questions. In this paper we will discuss two propositions on the necessity of adapting to and taking advantage of the technological changes: (1) Digital Humanities tools are not the enemy of the historian, but they need to be used in a proper way. This requires historians to make ‘tool criticism’ part of their methodological toolkit; (2) Digital Humanities tools allow for a more data-driven and bottom-up approach to historical research. This eliminates some of the historian’s preconceptions that are inevitably part of more traditional historical research.
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hal-01616305 , version 1 (13-10-2017)

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Serge Ter Braake, Antske Fokkens, Niels Ockeloen, Chantal Van Son. Digital History: Towards New Methodologies. 2nd International Workshop on Computational History and Data-Driven Humanities (CHDDH), May 2016, Dublin, Ireland. pp.23-32, ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-46224-0_3⟩. ⟨hal-01616305⟩
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