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 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 RETRACTED ARTICLE: PROVIDING A DECREASING CONNECTION PROBABILITY MODEL FOR URBAN STREET NETWORK

Transport ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 207-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hasan Ziari ◽  
Hamid Behbahani ◽  
Mohammed M. Khabiri
Keyword(s):  
Information Science ◽  
Probability Model ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Structural Approach ◽  
Street Network ◽  
Urban Street ◽  
Model Generalization ◽  
Retracted Article ◽  
Transportation Research

We apologise for the presented paper considered as a typical example of PLAGIARISM. The earlier published initial original references: • B. Jiang, C. Claramunt. 2004. A structural approach to the model generalization of an urban street network, GeoInformatica 8 (2): 157-171. • B. Jiang, C. Claramunt. 2002. A structural approach to model generalisation of an urban street network, in 5th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, Palma (Mallorca, Spain) April 25th-27th 2002, 1–10. • G. Forbes. 2000. Urban roadway classification before the design begins, in Transportation Research E-Circular, Number E-C019. are not cited in the paper produced by H. Ziari, H. Behbahani and M. M. Khabiri. The Editorial Board of the Journal TRANSPORT and the Publishing House TECHNIKA have retracted the presented paper. The Editorial Board of the Journal TRANSPORT is AGAINST PLAGIARISM. Yours faithfully, on behalf of the Editorial Board of the Journal TRANSPORT, Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Adolfas Baublys.

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.

A Conversation on Student Affairs Scholarship

NASPA Journal ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry D. Roper
Keyword(s):  
Student Affairs ◽  
Electronic Format ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Journal Editorial ◽  
Future Direction

For the past 18 months the NASPA Journal Editorial Board has been engaged in an ongoing conversation about the future direction of the Journal. Among the issues we have discussed are: What should comprise the content of the Journal?, How do we decide when or if we will move the Journal to an electronic format?, What do our members want in the Journal?, and What type of scholarship should we be publishing? The last question — What type of scholarship should we be publishing? — led to an energetic conversation within the Editorial Board.

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