Jonathan Blaney, Jane Winters, Sarah Milligan

Doing Digital History

A Beginner's Guide to Working with Text as Data

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A practical guide to digital history, which shows just how much can be done without writing any code. This book will give researchers in history or related fields the skills and confidence to approach existing digital resources and to create their own. Assuming no prior knowledge, the guide focuses on hands-on techniques for working with text. -- .

Produktdetails

• IHR Research Guides
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 194mm x 129mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 220g
• ISBN-13: 9781526132680
• ISBN-10: 1526132680
• Artikelnr.: 59914254

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Blaney is Head of Digital Projects at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London Sarah Milligan is an independent scholar based in Victoria, Canada Marty Steer is Technical Lead, Digital Humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London Jane Winters is Professor of Digital Humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 The context of digital history 2 Formulating your research
questions 3 How a digital project begins 4 Text 1: unstructured text 5 Text
2: structured text 6 Caring for your digital history project 7 Visualising
your data 8 What next for digital history? Answers to 'test yourself'
questions Appendix 1 Getting the data Appendix 2 Some command line recipes
Appendix 3 Regular expressions References Index