Historians' archival research looks quite different in the digital age

how the concept of AI technology impacts digital archival expertise

Moss et al. (2018) does not specifically discuss AI, but their suggestion that archives be understood as data collections to be “mined” is a nod ...

Exploring the Contrast Between Physical and Digital Document ...

Archives are windows to the past. They can provide evidence, explanations, and context that help us understand past actions and inform the future.

Introduction: Promises and Perils of Digital History

A 120-gigabyte hard drive that sells for $95 and weighs about a pound can hold a 120,000-volume library. Because historians love data and archival sources, they ...

Perceptions and Understandings of Archives in the Digital Age

contact with archives suggests a slightly different view of them. Online ... At least in the population sur- veyed, research is another likely avenue to encounter ...

Online Research Tools and Aids | National Archives

To find copies of Federal records on our website and/or information about the records and their historical context, you will have to look in ...

Shining a Light on the Digital Dark Age - Long Now Foundation

Without maintenance, most digital information will be lost in just a few decades. How might we secure our data so that it survives for generations?

The Promise and Threat of Digital Options in an Archival Age

The argument seems too familiar. So it is time to ask, are there really any differences between digital data and other media which, within an archival world, ...

Episode two: Digitisation, digital archives and preservation

So it's not digitisation as such as the content itself is obviously digital at the point that we archive it, but it may have been originally analogue at the ...

Accounting history in a digital age: Empirical experiences, improving ...

Most accounting history researchers who utilise archival sources ... Thus, it is reasonable to state that much accounting history research ...

Digital Archive - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

Archival and special collections include text, art, objects, photographs, geographical data, maps, sound, and other media. These collections present special ...

Does technology impact the preservation of historical data?

Technology has also had more subtle impacts on History as a discipline – not only on the storage of historical data, but also on how it is ...

Remembering is a form of honouring: preserving the COVID-19 ...

Archives offer essential primary information to historians, scholars from other disciplines including historical epidemiology, families doing genealogies, the ...

Archival Research in the History of the Law: A User's Perspective

One of my conclusions is that lawyers and historians may in fact have rather different professional imperatives, even conflicting ... Two new and very different.

Archival Research 101: Looking for the Perfect Image

... so working on the film gave me the opportunity to learn about the history of my new city. I have since researched several films at various ...

Advice for Planning and Conducting Archival Research

In memory of the pre-pandemic world, when historians were still able ... Every archive works differently, so just check their guides first.

The Genesis and Rationales of Archival Principles and Practices

Although archives have existed for thousands of years, much of the archival paradigm-not unlike that of library science-coalesced between the mid-nineteenth and ...

Full article: Journalism History and Digital Archives

While traditional archival work through more focused sampling requires a relatively precise research question to narrow one's focus, this is not ...

Archival Research - History - Research Guides - CUNY

You will find information on: What archives are and how they are arranged. Conducting background research. Where and how to look for archival collections.

How digitalization changes history (and maybe also historical ...

The digitalization of historical records in the 2010s does not necessarily follow the same path, as it seems to go back to the collections ...

Opinion: The Challenge for Historians and Educators in the Digital Age

The time in which a historical event or personal experience was recorded, disseminated, and analyzed represented a much more extended and more ...