Smart Big Data: Use of Slovenian Parliamentary Papers in Digital History

Abstract

The paper calls attention to the problem of massive amounts of digital historical sources that will eventually be faced by researchers of contemporary history. Slovenian parliamentary papers are then presented in detail as an example of smart big data. The authors believe that historians will be unable to process massive amounts of such digital materials using only standard historiographical methods and will be forced to start using methods and tools developed by digital history, digital humanities and also language technologies.

Desacuerdos estratégicos y dinámicas de conflicto antagónicas

“…Las actas o diarios de sesiones de las cámaras se han usado de manera frecuente en estudios pertenecientes a disciplinas como la historia (Pančur y Šorn, 2016) o la sociología (Cheng, 2015), o en disciplinas más centradas en la comunicación como puede ser el análisis crítico del discurso (van Dijk 2002(van Dijk , 2010Augoustinos y Every, 2007). El estudio aquí desarrollado pertenece principalmente a la filosofía porque se centra en un fenómeno eminentemente filosófico, el desacuerdo.…”

The Parla-CLARIN Recommendations for Encoding Corpora of Parliamentary Proceedings

“…The unique content, structure, and language of records of parliamentary debates make them an important object of study in a wide range of disciplines in the digital humanities and social sciences, such as political science (Dijk 2010), sociology (Cheng 2015), history (Pančur and Šorn 2016), discourse analysis (Hirst et al 2014), sociolinguistics (Rheault et al 2016), and multilinguality (Bayley 2004). With parliaments in Europe playing an increasingly decisive role in their constituents' lives and because of their rapidly changing relations with the public, mass media, executive branches, and international organizations, further empirical research and development of integrative analytical tools are necessary in order to achieve a better understanding of parliamentary discourse as well as its wider societal impact, in particular with studies that represent diverse parts of society (women, minorities, and marginalized groups) and cross-cultural studies (Hughes et al 2015).…”