Historians and Microcomputing, 1989

Slatta, Richard W.

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“…192 Yet lack of coordination and communication between historians and computer programmers festered. 193 Gereben Zaagsma even contended, "American computer-aided historical research had all but died by the mid-1980s, the result of a backlash against quantitative approaches . .…”

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Archival Divides and Foreign Countries? Historians, Archivists, Information-Seeking, and Technology: Retrospect and Prospect

Poole¹

2015

The American Archivist

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Rumors of the deterioration of the historian-archivist relationship have been exaggerated. This article first traces the evolving historian-archivist bond over the last eight decades. Second, it discusses the methods scholars have employed in studying historians, namely bibliometrics, questionnaires, interviews, and a combination. Third, it describes the results and implications of those studies in three areas: locating sources, using primary and nontextual materials, and overall information-seeking and use. Fourth, it considers the evolving and still ambivalent role of information technology in historians' research. Finally, it suggests possibilities for future research, highlighting digital history, personal archiving, Web 2.0, democratization and public history, crowdsourcing and citizen archivists, digital curation, activist archivists and social justice, diversity and the changing demographics of the archival profession, and education and training. Though historians and archivists may not always have used their relationship to Clio's maximum advantage, digital technology and an improved knowledge of historians' work practices based on investigations by archival scholars engender new and better possibilities for collaboration.

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Archival Divides and Foreign Countries? Historians, Archivists, Information-Seeking, and Technology: Retrospect and Prospect

Poole¹

2015

The American Archivist

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“…The biggest disappointment remains the lack of role-playing and simulation software appropriate for student use. Slatta (1989Slatta ( , 1995 lodged this same complaint 10 and 16 years ago; however, little has changed. Despite these disappointments, Latin American historians have found many creative ways to enhance their professional activities with computer tools.…”

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Enhancing Latin American History Teaching and Research With Computers

Slatta

Haywood

2005

Social Science Computer Review

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Historians specializing in Latin America use a wide range of electronic tools in their research, publication, and teaching. Quality information for the region is now available in a wide variety of formats, including databases, spreadsheets, CD-ROMs, concept maps, and web sites, created by historians and librarians. Thanks to electronic finding aides, it is now quicker and more convenient to research and to teach students about Latin America's past. In addition, teachers can bring more of the richness and variety of Latin American culture to their students by using new technologies.S ince their appearance some 25 years ago, microcomputers have appealed to historians as effective tools for research, writing, and teaching. Although the Internet has brought major opportunities to scholars, many of the tools used today are mere updates of the first generation of computer applications from the early 1980s. We still rely on word processing, spreadsheets, databases (generic, specialized, and online), and e-mail (Slatta, 1984a(Slatta, , 1984b(Slatta, , 1984c. The biggest disappointment remains the lack of role-playing and simulation software appropriate for student use. Slatta (1989Slatta ( , 1995 lodged this same complaint 10 and 16 years ago; however, little has changed. Despite these disappointments, Latin American historians have found many creative ways to enhance their professional activities with computer tools.Technology, in the broadest sense, offers teacher-scholars the remarkable ability to introduce students to information otherwise unavailable within the classroom setting and outside it. Technology allows teachers to engage students in the learning process via exposure to a multitude of Latin American voices, including archival resources, translations of primary texts, secondary sources (scholarly and popular), artwork, music, cartography, and institutional and organizational databases.The integration of technology into the Latin Americanist's educational lexicon takes many forms, although PowerPoint presentations and web sites currently predominate. Whatever the format, however, technology represents a medium and a vehicle of exchange. It serves as a platform by which to communicate information; and as such, its integration into the learning process should be relatively seamless. We comment on the written word, not the fact that a student or colleague delivered it via a given software product. Similarly, the 152

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Facing the History Machine: Toward Histories of Digital History

Zaagsma

2024

History of Humanities

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Historians and Microcomputing, 1989

Cited by 5 publications

References 10 publications

Archival Divides and Foreign Countries? Historians, Archivists, Information-Seeking, and Technology: Retrospect and Prospect

Archival Divides and Foreign Countries? Historians, Archivists, Information-Seeking, and Technology: Retrospect and Prospect

Enhancing Latin American History Teaching and Research With Computers

Facing the History Machine: Toward Histories of Digital History

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