Digital History

Historia digital, historia de los medios ditales: antiguos dilemas para nuevos paradigmas

by Matilde Eiroa San Francisco

Conexiones. Revista iberoamericana de Comunicación, Volumen 3, nº 2, 2011, pp. 21-36

Swalwell The Early Micro User FINAL

by Melanie Swalwell

Breves reflexões sobre o uso da Internet em pesquisas historiográficas

by Odilon Caldeira Neto

Article Published in: Revista Eletrônica Boletim do TEMPO, Ano 4, Nº20, Rio, 2009 [ISSN 1981-3384]

The present article searchs to make a reflection on the phenomenon of the Internet in face of the amplitude of the... more The present article searchs to make a reflection on the phenomenon of the Internet in face of the amplitude of the concept of source in the contemporany historiography. Search still to consider possible solutions for some impediments that can occur in the research that uses the Internet as source and instrument of research.

Testi digitali: nuovi media e documenti medievali

by Antonella Ghignoli

Co-authored with Michele Ansani).
Published in: Les historiens et l’informatique : un métier à réinventer. Actes de l’atelier ATHIS VII organisé par l’École française de Rome avec le concours de l’ANR, Rome, 4-6 décembre 2008, études réunies par Jean- Philippe Genet et Andrea Zorzi, Rome, École française de Rome, 2011, pp. 73-86 (Collection de l’École française de Rome, 444), ISBN 978-2-7283- 0904-7.

VennMaker para historiadores: fuentes, redes sociales y programas informaticos

by Marten Düring

Co-authored with Matthias Bixler, Michael Kronenwett, Martin Stark, in: Redes. Revista hispana para el análisis de redes sociales, vol.21, Diciembre 2011.

Este artículo explora la aplicabilidad del programa informático VennMaker para la investigación histórica. El artículo... more Este artículo explora la aplicabilidad del programa informático VennMaker para la investigación histórica. El artículo se apoya en dos casos de estudio de investigaciones históricas actuales orientadas a estudiar las redes y que cubren diferentes periodos de tiempo y distintas fuentes. La mayor ventaja de VennMaker es que invierte el proceso de recolección de datos. Mientras que los programas tradicionales utilizan datos pre-codificados para producir el mapa de una red, VennMaker genera los datos mientras que el investigador dibuja los nodos y crea el mapa de una red. Las bases de datos de matrices prefabricadas ya no son necesarias; por lo tanto, el programa puede ser utilizado fácilmente por historiadores que no se han formado en las ciencias sociales. Los dos casos incluyen el análisis de una estructura familiar en la historia antigua y las redes ego-centradas de judíos que se escondían durante el Nacional-Socialismo. Artumentamos que una representación visual de las relaciones sociales ayuda a revelar modelos invisibles y caracerísticas de las redes que ofrecen a los investigadores nuevas perspectivas sobre sus temas de investigación. El programa ofrece una variedad de herramientas para representar las relaciones sociales y su desarrollo a lo largo del tiempo y del espacio.

Collaboration massivement distribuée et gestion du savoir en ligne: le cas du wiki de la communauté WordPress (2003-2008).«Code is Poetry», but «a …

by Emmanuel Ruzé

Ma thèse de doctorat. Je me permets de citer la conclusion du rapport de soutenance de François-Xavier de Vaujany, le rapporteur le plus prolixe :

"Finalement, le candidat a démontré dans ce travail doctoral de qualité (appliqué à un objet encore peu exploré) de réelles qualités de chercheur. Les données traitées sont impressionnantes, leur formatage également. L'écriture est d'une réflexivité rare et les analyses débouchent sur de véritables contributions conceptuelles et managériales."

Et celle de J-M Dalle, dans un rapport qui ne contient aucune critique:

"Monsieur Ruzé démontre au cours de son travail l’ampleur et la variété des ressources qu’il est capable de mobiliser en vue de soutenir les thèses qu’il défend."

Lo storico nella rete

by Arturo Gallia

in M. Merluzzi (a cura di), "Ad limina. Percorsi storiografici di frontiera", Roma, Aracne, 2008, pp. 289-326.

History and Digital Sources

by Arturo Gallia

in «Carnival. Journal of the International Students of History Association», Vol. XI (2009), ISHA 2010, pp. 132-138

Das Dilemma zwischen Effizienz und Sicherheit. Über die Beziehungen zwischen Verfolgten des Nationalsozialismus und ihren Helfern

by Marten Düring

informationen. Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift des Studienkreises Deutscher Widerstand 1933-1945, Nr. 73, Juni 2011.

Hilfe für verfolgte Juden im Nationalsozialismus. Biographische und sozialstrukturelle Zugänge am Beispiel der Berliner Helferin Ruth Andreas-Friedrich

by Marten Düring

Co-authored with Susanne Beer. Published in Medaon – Magazin für jüdisches Leben in Forschung und Bildung, 5. Jg., 2011, Nr. 9, S. 1-17.

The journalist Ruth Andreas-Friedrich is one of the few helpers of persecuted Jews in Nazi Germany who kept an... more The journalist Ruth Andreas-Friedrich is one of the few helpers of persecuted Jews in Nazi Germany who kept an extensive record of her actions. Her diary covers her experience of the persecution of many of her Jewish friends and acquaintances, her efforts to support them and the transformation of a circle of like-minded friends into a highly sophisticated and well-connected support network. We combine Andreas-Friedrichs description of herself and her group with the available historical sources. We argue that her non-conformist lifestyle, close ties with victims of persecution and their requests for help, admiration for charismatic helpers together with a like-minded social environment lead her to begin to help others. When most of their Jewish friends and acquaintances had either emigrated or were deported, the group’s activities almost came to a halt. New contacts were brokered by a refugee and one of the group’s members and lead to a second phase of activities in late 1944 and 1945.

VennMaker for Historians: Sources, Social Networks and Software

by Marten Düring

Co-authored with Matthias Bixler, Michael Kronenwett, Martin Stark, in: Redes. Revista hispana para el análisis de redes sociales, vol.21, Diciembre 2011.

This paper explores the applicability of the software VennMaker to historical research. The paper draws on two case... more This paper explores the applicability of the software VennMaker to historical research. The paper draws on two case studies from current network-oriented historical research projects, covering different time periods and sources. VennMaker’s biggest advantage is that it inverts the process of data collection. While traditional software uses pre-coded data to produce a network map, VennMaker generates data while the researcher draws nodes and ties on a network map. Prefabricated data matrices are thus no longer necessary and the software can thus easily be used by historians lacking training in the social sciences. Our two cases include an analysis of a family structure in ancient history and ego-networks of Jews in hiding during National Socialism. We argue that a visual representation of social relations helps to reveal unseen patterns and characteristics of networks and thus offers scholars new perspectives on their subjects of research. The software offers a variety of tools to represent social relations and their development over time and space.

La Digital History : histoire et mémoire à la portée de tous

by Serge Noiret

Published in the Journal "Ricerche storiche", Florence, Italy, 2011, 41, 1, pp.111-148, URL: http://www.polistampa.com/asp/sl.asp?id=5386

Digital History in its version 2.0, has certainly helped to open up "high culture" but with the advent of... more Digital History in its version 2.0, has certainly helped to open up "high culture" but with the advent of web 2.0, history and memory are now the prerogative of anyone using "crowdsourcing" activities. The danger today is that specialists do not control these digital mutations. Without a knowledge of the new instruments and reflecting on the new historian’s craft, the digital revolution will eliminate the professional capacity to reconstruct the past. History will soon become an open territory for unqualified individuals to play with. The author attempts to understand what are the most significant mutations of history 2.0 for the profession of historian and what exactly are the epistemological issues posed by the new digital realm. He focuses on the practices of Digital Public History, a history open to everyone and answering to the profound identity needs of our societies.

L’expérience de Ménestrel : douze ans dans l’Internet médiéval

by Marc H. Smith

(avec Christine Ducourtieux)
Les historiens et l’informatique : un métier à réinventer, éd. Jean-Philippe Genet et Andrea Zorzi, Rome : École française de Rome, 2011 (Collection de l’École française de Rome, 444), p. 141-156

Reflections on the international medieval portal Menestrel: more Reflections on the international medieval portal Menestrel: www.menestrel.fr

Ménestrel, un réseau informel et un site nés en 1997 à l’initiative de médiévistes et de spécialistes de l’information, représente une voie originale dans la collecte, le recensement et la diffusion des ressources scientifiques en ligne. La refonte du site grâce au projet ANR Athis et l’expansion internationale du réseau sont l’occasion de revenir sur douze ans d’expérience et sur des choix techniques, humains et scientifiques. La démultiplication de la matière accessible en ligne ainsi que l’évolution imprévisible des usages, où le recours à l'Internet tend à s’imposer au détriment des ressources non numériques, créent aussi de nouvelles responsabilités pédagogiques. À terme, le monopole des moteurs de recherche généralistes met en question l’effort de médiation raisonnée et critique par des spécialistes, dont l’activité n’est encore ni reconnue ni soutenue à la hauteur des enjeux.

Fuzzy Set Theory (or Fuzzy Logic) to Represent the Messy Data of Complex Human (and other) Systems

by J. B. (Jack) Owens

Co-authored with Emery A. Coppola, Jr.

Historians and Human Geographers deal with human systems or subsystems of considerable complexity. This situation... more Historians and Human Geographers deal with human systems or subsystems of considerable complexity. This situation presents a dilemma to those who use computational technologies, which demand a high level of precision to organize, analyze, and visualize information: the more complex the system is, the greater the imprecision of the available data. Historians and geographers often feel that their imprecise, ambiguous, contradictory, messy, largely qualitative information does not “fit” well in the available software categories, and they have trouble discussing the results produced when they work within computational environments because category assignment seems so arbitrary. This dilemma appears dramatically with the use of Geographically-Integrated History (GIH) as a research strategy. In this paper, we introduce fuzzy set theory (or fuzzy logic) as a proven solution for dealing with imprecision in complex systems.

Storia Digitale: quali sono le risorse di rete usate dagli storici ?

by Serge Noiret

This is a pre-print of the version published as Serge Noiret: Storia Digitale: sulle risorse di rete per gli storici, in La Macchina del Tempo. Studi di informatica umanistica in onore di Tito Orlandi, edited by Lorenzo Perilli and Domenico Fiormonte, Firenze, Le Lettere, 2011, pp.201-258

Numérisation et paléographie

by Marc H. Smith

La numérisation des manuscrits médiévaux..., éd. É. Lalou, Le médiéviste et l’ordinateur, no 40, aut. 2001, p. 9-16

L'aube des archives globales?

by Marc H. Smith

ANR/ATHIS – Ateliers Histoire et informatique, 1
De l'archive à l’open archive : l’historien et internet
(École française de Rome, 23-25 mars 2006)

Título: Historia digital: la memoria en el archivo infinito [*] Autor: Jairo Antonio Melo Flórez [**] Tema: Historia Digital Enero-Abril 2011

by Jairo Antonio Melo Flórez

Il latino dopo l'avvento dell'informatica, in Il nostro latino. Risorse del latino e latino come risorsa, Roma 2010

by Michele Di Marco

Spanish Christian Sacred Sites: from the library to interoperable web services (WMS – WFS)

by J. B. (Jack) Owens

Co-authored with A. Barral Rojo, M. Castejón Cay, D. Ballari, M. Manso Callejo &  M. Bernabé Poveda

"Spanish Christian Sacred Sites: from the library to interoperable web services (WMS – WFS): Creation of an... more "Spanish Christian Sacred Sites: from the library to interoperable web services (WMS – WFS): Creation of an Interoperable Information Layer on Spanish Christian Shrines"

J. Owens [1], A. Barral Rojo [2], M. Castejón Cay [2], D. Ballari [2], M. Manso Callejo [2], M. Bernabé Poveda [2]

[1] Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho, USA
[2] Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

Paper published in Proceedings of GIS Planet 2005, 30 May-2 June 2005, Estoril, Portugal