Data scopes for digital history research

Hoekstra, Rik; Koolen, Marijn

doi:10.1080/01615440.2018.1484676

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“…These codes can then be reviewed, revised or collapsed into larger themes or categories as the analysis progresses, reflecting the iterative process that normally occurs during traditional historical analysis. Through coding the corpus, a systematic method to the historical analysis becomes evident -it creates a log of discovery that the nurse historian and others can use to follow the logic behind the analysis (Hoekstra & Koolen, 2019).…”

Section: Maximising Context: Using Caqdas To Aid Analysismentioning

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“…Normally, the researcher's coding is used to generate these visual representations rather than text recognition, therefore the accuracy of these visualisations remains uninfluenced by poor OCR or digitisation practices. A CAQDASgenerated visual model can highlight trends within the analysis that either confirm or refute the historian's preliminary inferences (Hoekstra & Koolen, 2019). Alternatively, viewing the coded data as a model may reveal gaps in the analysis or areas that need further investigation such as revealing an unexpected connection between two key figures.…”

Section: Maximising Context: Using Caqdas To Aid Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A 'digital turn' has occurred (Nicholson, 2016) -the methodology is fundamentally changed. The time-honoured traditions of the past no longer match how the majority of historians, including nurse historians, conduct and use historical research, yet we are at an impasse for knowing how to suitably advance the methodology (Hitchcock, 2013;Hoekstra & Koolen, 2019).…”

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“…Twenty-first century nurse historians need to probe the efficacy of the 'digital turn' (Putnam, 2016) and develop new skills to negotiate these uncharted waters (Hoekstra & Koolen, 2019). During this era of risky business, we need to reflect not only on the benefits that technology can bring to the methodology, but also critique its limitations.…”

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Risky business? Addressing the challenges of historical methods in the ‘digital age’

2020

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Background: The 'digital age' has led to a renaissance in historical methods. The way in which nurse historians can search, collate and analyse sources has changed exponentially over the past two decades. The mass digitisation of books, newspapers and other documents has resulted in the removal of many longstanding barriers to performing historical research, such as budgetary and access restrictions. Despite these expanded opportunities, the nurse historian now faces new challenges when performing historical research. Aim: This paper aims to stimulate discussion on the risky business of conducting nursing historical research in the 'digital age'. In this paper, we examine the technology-born challenges encountered by nurse historians with the objective of proffering potential solutions to address such issues. Discussion: Three contemporary challenges faced by nurse historians are: not knowing how to contain and articulate online searching; being unable to reduce the number of optical character recognition inaccuracies with digitised archaic sources; and being unsure of how to safely incorporate technological tools into historical analysis. Conclusion: Used correctly, new technologies can augment and strengthen traditional historical methods. Nurse historians need to be mindful that the way in which technologies are used is controlled by the user, rather than the technology itself.

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Section: Maximising Context: Using Caqdas To Aid Analysismentioning

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Section: Maximising Context: Using Caqdas To Aid Analysismentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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2020

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“…The paper ‘Data scopes for digital history research’ introduces the concept of “data scopes” to alleviate a lack of transparency and replicability with regards to the data manipulation steps in historical research. Data scopes are proposed to “characterize the interaction between researchers and their data and the transformation of a cluster of data into a research instrument” [ 6 ].…”

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A Linked Data Model for Data Scopes

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Bonestroo

Koolen

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Metadata and Semantic Research

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With the rise of data driven methods in the humanities, it becomes necessary to develop reusable and consistent methodological patterns for dealing with the various data manipulation steps. This increases transparency, replicability of the research. Data scopes present a qualitative framework for such methodological steps. In this work we present a Linked Data model to represent and share Data Scopes. The model consists of a central Data scope element, with linked elements for data Selection, Linking, Modeling, Normalisation and Classification. We validate the model by representing the data scope for 24 articles from two domains: Humanities and Social Science.

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Struggling with digitized historical newspapers: Contextual barriers to information interaction in history research activities

Kumpulainen

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2021

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On account of the complexities related to the use of digitized newspapers, researchers may encounter barriers when interacting with the collections' content. Overcoming barriers that could influence their information interaction should enhance the accessibility and utility of the newspapers. Hence, the study examined the barriers faced in history‐research tasks involving interaction with digitized historical newspapers, with focus on the barriers' contexts and the related task‐based activities. The analysis employed two datasets, from in‐depth interviews and demonstrations of newspaper‐use situations. Content analysis from these complementary data showed that barriers arose in multiple contexts, connected with the collection, task, tools, and socio‐organizational setting. Most barriers were associated with collection context and occurred in information searching and selection activities and in working with information items. Barriers related to the task or to socio‐organizational context arose most often in the planning and monitoring activities and in synthesizing and reporting. Such research‐based insight into the barriers faced can aid in illuminating what is required for providing good support to researchers working with digital newspaper content.

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Data scopes for digital history research

Cited by 23 publications

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Risky business? Addressing the challenges of historical methods in the ‘digital age’

Risky business? Addressing the challenges of historical methods in the ‘digital age’

A Linked Data Model for Data Scopes

Struggling with digitized historical newspapers: Contextual barriers to information interaction in history research activities

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