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Doing Digital History: A Beginner's Guide to Working with Text as Data. By JonathanBlaney, SarahMilligan, MartySteer and JaneWinters. Manchester University Press, 2021, XVII + 173 pp. £12.99. by TEHREEM HUSAIN is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Doing Digital History: A Beginner's Guide to Working with Text as Data. By JonathanBlaney, SarahMilligan, MartySteer and JaneWinters. Manchester University Press, 2021, XVII + 173 pp. £12.99. about?
The COVID-19 pandemic has arguably brought a structural shift in the adoption of digital technologies for historical analysis, presentation and research. Lockdowns, and the consequent closure of archives, gave impetus to the use of digital resources and technologies. Digital history, a sub-discipline within digital humanities, has also benefited in this environment. Doing Digital History, authored by eminent experts of the field, offers readers a practical introduction to digital history. More importantly, it takes readers step by step into an entire lifecycle of a digital project, employing time-saving digital tools for their research whilst assuming no prior knowledge of coding capabilities. The authors write that 'Doing digital humanities need not involve writing programmes' (p. 6), but instead, what captures the essence of digital humanities is actively or critically employing digital tools for research.The book is divided into eight chapters. The first chapter details the history of the subject, giving an overview of the early drivers of digitisation. It discusses important attempts at digitising textual data such as Google Books and Project Gutenberg. The second chapter helps
Who reads Doing Digital History: A Beginner's Guide to Working with Text as Data. By JonathanBlaney, SarahMilligan, MartySteer and JaneWinters. Manchester University Press, 2021, XVII + 173 pp. £12.99.?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Arts and Humanities.
- Author
- TEHREEM HUSAIN
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)