scholarly journals What is Digital History after all?

2021 ◽  
pp. 168-173
Author(s):  
Vladimir Vladimirov
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Historical Knowledge ◽  
Digital History ◽  
Subject Field ◽  
Historical Information ◽  
Discussion Panel ◽  
Widespread Dissemination

The article summarizes the author’s report at a discussion organized by the editorial board of the Istoricheskaya Informatika journal that addressed the book “What is Digital History?” by Salmi H. published in 2020. The book is named a manual for students thus justifying the opinion to consider the material presented to readers as representing a set of the most established positions and opinions in the field of digital history. The book discusses such issues as the time of digital history birth, its definition, subject field, functions as well as the importance for the widespread dissemination of historical knowledge in society. The author criticizes the concept of prerequisites for digital history birth outlined by H. Salmi which completely ignores the History and Computing movement in Western Europe and North America which played an important role in the formation of Russian historical information science and which was the discussion panel where many digital history issues were raised and resolved. The structure of the book is discussed as well. The article emphasizes the author's viewpoint on the importance of geographic information systems and technologies for historical research which he clearly underestimates. It is concluded that historical information science and digital history are different spheres of interdisciplinarity.

scholarly journals Discussion Club of Istoricheskaya Informatika Journal. Discussing the Book “What is Digital History?” by Hannu Salmi

2021 ◽  
pp. 161-167
Author(s):  
Andrey Volodin
Keyword(s):  
Information Science ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Digital History ◽  
Historical Information ◽  
Journal Editorial ◽  
Club Meeting ◽  
Science Academy ◽  
Definition Of

This article reports about the new initiative of the Historical Information Science Journal editorial board aimed at creating a discussion club to review topical monographs. The journal today covers many fields of history digitization such as historical information science, digital history, digital humanities. The first discussion of the club addresses the book by the Finnish Science Academy professor Hannu Salmi titled “What is Digital History?” (Medford: PolityPress, 2020). The first club meeting was attended by L.I. Borodkin, V.N. Vladimirov, I.M. Garskova, N.G. Povroznik and moderated by A.Yu. Volodin. The article briefly characterizes the series the reviewed book is a part of. Those are “What is history?” series by Polity publishing house. The author describes the monograph structure in general and analyzes new historiographic examples provided by H. Salmi which relate to digital history discussions and issues which are characterized by numerous approaches, opinions and projects. Considering the writer’s definition of digital history as a “mobile layer of historical research with multiple approaches, projects, publications, services and sources” the author concludes that this field can hardly be precisely defined nowadays. This is true of the experimental character of the majority of projects within this sphere.

scholarly journals “A Beautiful Mind” or “Proof of Life”: Historical Information Science and/or Digital History?

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Saule Aukenovna Zhakisheva
Keyword(s):  
Information Science ◽  
Applied Mathematics ◽  
Information Source ◽  
Digital History ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Historical Information ◽  
Source Studies ◽  
Methodological Problems ◽  
Interdisciplinary Interaction ◽  
The Impact

The article studies integration processes which have been characteristic of humanities in the second half of the twentieth century, the changing configuration of interdisciplinary fields and the redistribution of the interdisciplinary hierarchy of science domains as well as the role of historical information science in a strong or a weak integration type of scientific knowledge. Historical information science is a classical example of interdisciplinary interaction (match) of several fields (history, source studies, applied mathematics, mathematical statistics and information science). This supradisciplinary form of integration connects history with mathematization and informatization as well as principles and methods of the general theory of systems, the information theory, synergetics, etc. In this respect, the article focuses on the impact of the digital turn on the relationship between historical information science, digital history and digital humanities as well as methodological problems of information source studies rather than digital documents studies. The author states that new prospects provided by the “digital revolution” set new goals for history in the 21st century.

scholarly journals Data Practices in Digital History

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Rongqian Ma ◽  
Fanghui Xiao
Keyword(s):  
Information Science ◽  
The United States ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Digital History ◽  
Data Practices ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
New Research

This paper presents an exploratory research project that investigates data practices in digital history research. Emerging from the 1950s and ‘60s in the United States, digital history remains a charged topic among historians, requiring a new research paradigm that includes new concepts and methodologies, an intensive degree of interdisciplinary, inter-institutional, and international collaboration, and experimental forms of research sharing, publishing, and evaluation. Using mixed methods of interviews and questionnaire, we identified data challenges in digital history research practices from three perspectives: ontology (e.g., the notion of data in historical research); workflow (e.g., data collection, processing, preservation, presentation and sharing); and challenges. Extending from the results, we also provide a critical discussion of the state-of-art in digital history research, particularly in respect of metadata, data sharing, digital history training, collaboration, as well as the transformation of librarians’ roles in digital history projects. We conclude with provisional recommendations of better data practices for participants in digital history, from the perspective of library and information science.

Editorial Board Meeting of the journal “Library and Information Science” (“Bibliotekovedenije”)

2010 ◽  
pp. 132-133
Author(s):  
Oksana P. Soldatkina
Keyword(s):  
Information Science ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Board Meeting ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Library Studies ◽  
State Library

On the meeting of the Editorial Board of the journal “Library Studies” (“Bibliotekovedenije”) in the Russian State Library on March 2, 2010.

INFORMING HISTORICAL RESEARCH IN ACCOUNTING AND MANAGEMENT: TRADITIONS, PHILOSOPHIES, AND OPPORTUNITIES

1997 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee D. Parker
Keyword(s):  
Historical Research ◽  
Business History ◽  
Historical Knowledge ◽  
The Past ◽  
Field Of Inquiry ◽  
Historical Thought ◽  
The Way

Historical research in accounting and management, hitherto largely neglected as a field of inquiry by many management and accounting researchers, has experienced a resurgence of interest and activity in research conferences and journals over the past decade. The potential lessons of the past for contemporary issues have been rediscovered, but the way forward is littered with antiquarian narratives, methodologically naive analyses, ideologically driven interpretation and ignorance of the traditions, schools and philosophy of the craft by accounting and management researchers as well as traditional and critical historians themselves. This paper offers an introduction to contributions made to the philosophies and methods of history by significant historians in the past, a review of some of the influential schools of historical thought, insights into philosophies of historical knowledge and explanation and a brief introduction to oral and business history. On this basis the case is made for the philosophically and methodologically informed approach to the investigation of our past heritage in accounting and management

scholarly journals Propozycja obrzędów Pierwszej Komunii Świętej dzieci w parafii

2009 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 213
Author(s):  
Jan Szczepański
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
First Communion ◽  
Original Concept ◽  
The Catholic Church

The article contains an outline for the ceremony of the First Communion of children in the parochial church. It is based on historical research investigating the ways of preparing children for the First Communion in the Catholic Church of Western Europe and in Poland. The goal of this article is to create a new, original concept of this ceremony in order to improve the participation of children and all the faithful in a better and deeper experience of the First Communion. The liturgy is meant to be easier to comprehend by the children. In the rites, one of the ways of supporting those attempts will be through children’s gestures performed during the renewal of baptismal promises.

scholarly journals Entering new publication territory in chemoinformatics and chemical information science

F1000Research ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jürgen Bajorath
Keyword(s):  
Peer Review ◽  
Guest Editor ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Chemical Information ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Review Articles

The F1000Research publishing platform offers the opportunity to launch themed article collections as a part of its dynamic publication environment. The idea of article collections is further expanded through the generation of publication channels that focus on specific scientific areas or disciplines. This editorial introduces the Chemical Information Science channel of F1000Research designed to collate high-quality publications and foster a culture of open peer review. Articles will be selected by guest editor(s) and a group of experts, the channel Editorial Board, and subjected to open peer review.

scholarly journals Editorial Board Meeting of the Journal “Library and Information Science”

2012 ◽  
pp. 131-132
Author(s):  
Anna V. Kalinkina
Keyword(s):  
Information Science ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Board Meeting ◽  
Russian State ◽  
State Library

On the annual Editorial Board Meeting of the journal “Library and Information Science”, held at the Russian State Library, March 12, 2012.

Segregation or Choice?

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maristella Botticini ◽  
Zvi Eckstein
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Alternative Explanation ◽  
Historical Information ◽  
Medieval Europe ◽  
History Of ◽  
Salient Features ◽  
The Middle Ages

This chapter assesses the argument that both their exclusion from craft and merchant guilds and usury bans on Christians segregated European Jews into moneylending during the Middle Ages. Already during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, moneylending was the occupation par excellence of the Jews in England, France, and Germany and one of the main professions of the Jews in the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, and other locations in western Europe. Based on the historical information and the economic theory presented in earlier chapters, the chapter advances an alternative explanation that is consistent with the salient features that mark the history of the Jews: the Jews in medieval Europe voluntarily entered and later specialized in moneylending because they had the key assets for being successful players in credit markets—capital, networking, literacy and numeracy, and contract-enforcement institutions.

scholarly journals LEOPOLD RANKE'S ARCHIVAL TURN: LOCATION AND EVIDENCE IN MODERN HISTORIOGRAPHY

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 425-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
KASPER RISBJERG ESKILDSEN
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
The Political ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Historical Knowledge ◽  
New Model ◽  
Political Realities ◽  
Important Site ◽  
German Historian

From 1827 to 1831 the German historian Leopold von Ranke travelled through Germany, Austria, and Italy, hunting for documents and archives. During this journey Ranke developed a new model for historical research that transformed the archive into the most important site for the production of historical knowledge. Within the archive, Ranke claimed, the trained historian could forget his personal predispositions and political loyalties, and write objective history. This essay critically examines Ranke's model for historical research through a study of the obstacles, frustrations, and joys that he encountered on his journey. It shows how Ranke's archival experiences inspired him to re-evaluate his own identity as a historian and as a human being, and investigates some of the affiliations between his model for historical research and the political realities of Prince Metternich's European order. Finally, the essay compares Ranke's historical discipline to other nineteenth-century disciplines, such as anthropology and archaeology.

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