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The Problem of History in the Age of Abundance

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2016-12-11

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Milligan, Ian

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

Abstract

Our collective cultural heritage faces a serious problem: In the digital age, we can document and "remember" more than ever before. But the scale of historical material is so huge that it will decisively change how scholars interested in the past research and write. This article considers the technical challenges and intellectual implications of a historical record being created on the web and suggests new possibilities and opportunities for historians and archivists to work with these records.

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Copyright© 2017 The Chronicle of Higher Education. This text-only version of the article is presented with permission for scholarly sharing purposes only. All other use requires permission of the YGS Group. To view the original see: http://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Problem-of-History-in-the/238600

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Online record, Historical research, Web archives

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http://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Problem-of-History-in-the/238600
 http://hdl.handle.net/10012/11817

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