A special issue of the BMGN – Low Countries Historical Review on Digital History
Read online about the state of the art of Digital History in the Low Countries in the latest issue of BMGN – Low Countries Historical Review.
About the digitisation of analogue archives and its consequences for historians and the heritage sector About working with big data in huge research projects as well as small-scale digital historical research About the relationship between digital history and public history About the question how historical awareness and history itself changes in the digital age About the end of Humanities 1.0
BMGN – Low Countries Historical Review is the leading academic journal for the history of the Low Countries.
Contents:
James Kennedy, From the Editors – Redactioneel p. 1–2
Gerben Zaagsma, On Digital History p. 3–29
Charles Jeurgens, The Scent of the Digital Archive: Dilemmas with Archive Digitisation p. 30–54
Joris van Eijnatten, Toine Pieters, Jaap Verheul, Big Data for Global History: The Transformative Promise of Digital Humanities P. 55–77
Hinke Piersma, Kees Ribbens, Digital Historical Research: Context, Concepts and the Need for Reflection p. 78–102
Chiel van den Akker, History as Dialogue: On Online Narrativity p. 103–117
Fien Danniau, Public History in a Digital Context: Back to the Future or Back to Basics? p. 118–144
Forum
Geert Janssen, Kaat Wils, ‘Het einde van de geesteswetenschappen 1.0’– ‘The End of the Humanities 1.0’ p. 145–146
Inger Leemans, A Smell of Higher Honey: E-Humanities Perspectives p. 147–154
Andreas Fickers, Veins filled with the Diluted Sap of Rationality: A Critical Reply to Rens Bod p. 155–163
Marnix Beyen, A Higher Form of Hermeneutics?: The Digital Humanities in Political Historiography p. 164–170
Rens Bod, Who’s afraid of Patterns?: The Particular versus the Universal and the Meaning of Humanities 3.0 P 171–180
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