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dc.contributor.authorMilligan, Ian
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-09 14:14:54 (GMT)
dc.date.available2015-12-09 14:14:54 (GMT)
dc.date.issued2013-05-01
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1015788ar
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10012/10037
dc.description.abstract“Mining the Internet Graveyard” argues that the advent of massive quantity of born-digital historical sources necessitates a rethinking of the historians’ toolkit. The contours of a third wave of computational history are outlined, a trend marked by ever-increasing amounts of digitized information (especially web based), falling digital storage costs, a move to the cloud, and a corresponding increase in computational power to process these sources. Following this, the article uses a case study of an early born-digital archive at Library and Archives Canada – Canada’s Digital Collections project (CDC) – to bring some of these problems into view. An array of off-the-shelf data analysis solutions, coupled with code written in Mathematica, helps us bring context and retrieve information from a digital collection on a previously inaccessible scale. The article concludes with an illustration of the various computational tools available, as well as a call for greater digital literacy in history curricula and professional development.en
dc.description.sponsorshipSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council || 430-2013-0616en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherJournal of the Canadian Historical Association / Revue de la Société historique du Canadaen
dc.subjectdigital historyen
dc.subjectweb archivesen
dc.subjectinformation retrievalen
dc.titleMining the ‘Internet Graveyard’: Rethinking the Historians’ Toolkiten
dc.typeArticleen
dcterms.bibliographicCitationIan Milligan, “Mining the Internet Graveyard: Rethinking the Historians’ Toolkit,” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, Vol. 23, No 2 (2012, published in 2013): 21-64.en
uws.contributor.affiliation1Faculty of Artsen
uws.contributor.affiliation2Historyen
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uws.peerReviewStatusRevieweden
uws.scholarLevelFacultyen


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