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Richard Zijdeman
Examples of digital history at the IISH
2015-10-30, IISH, Amsterdam
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Moreover, scale notwithstanding, digitisation is about selection and thus far from neutral. Zaagsma (2013, p.20)
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So why do we do it?
… because for quite a range of questions, digitization is key to go move away from biased source selection
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Clio-Infra
• all countries in the world • 1500-today • various indicators: economic, health, environmental • multiple and overlapping sources for some of the indicators • link: https://www.clio-infra.eu/
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… by combining multiple sources
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… and by moving away from the mean for everything
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macro
micro
macro-micro relations: ‘Coleman boat’
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“Keeping up with the Joneses”
macro-micro relations: ‘Coleman boat’
Improving economic conditions
Strikes
Moan against your friends
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So why do we do it?
… because it allows for new ways to incorporate historical contexts
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Global collaboratory for the history of labour relations
• Patterns and trends in labour relations across the globe • 1500-2000 • Who works with whom under what conditions? • Link: https://collab.iisg.nl/web/LabourRelations/
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So why do we do it?
… because there does not need to be bias in digitization
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Historical Sample of the Netherlands
- random sample of person’s birth records (1812-1922) - 78000 individuals - certificates of birth, marriage and death - population registers
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So why do we do it?
… because visualization helps to summarize and provides new insights
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NLGIS • Data on Dutch municipalities from 1812-1997 • Plotted on historically accurate borders • Allows for visualization of own data • Link: http://www.nlgis.nl
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Vote on PVDA, 1982, Parlemental elections, source: nlgis.nl
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So why do we do it?
… because it raises new questions
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Common Lab Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities • link textual, audio-visual and structured data • tools to transpose your data into ‘linked data’ • visualize your data • link: http://www.clariah.nl
CLARIAH
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So why do we do it?
… in support of ‘traditional’ history
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Various examples of supportive ‘digital’ research
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So to sum up, we do digital history because:
• Deals source selection • Appreciates historical variation (beyond the mean) • Allow for studies within historical context • Provides new questions • Supports ‘traditional’ history
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Thank you
richard.zijdeman AT iisg.nl
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