Mining the ‘Internet Graveyard’: Rethinking the Historians’ Toolkit
| dc.contributor.author | Milligan, Ian | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-12-09T14:14:54Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-12-09T14:14:54Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-05-01 | |
| 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.sponsorship | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council || 430-2013-0616 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1015788ar | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10012/10037 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Journal of the Canadian Historical Association / Revue de la Société historique du Canada | en |
| dc.subject | digital history | en |
| dc.subject | web archives | en |
| dc.subject | information retrieval | en |
| dc.title | Mining the ‘Internet Graveyard’: Rethinking the Historians’ Toolkit | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |
| dcterms.bibliographicCitation | Ian 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.affiliation1 | Faculty of Arts | en |
| uws.contributor.affiliation2 | History | en |
| uws.peerReviewStatus | Reviewed | en |
| uws.scholarLevel | Faculty | en |
| uws.typeOfResource | Text | en |