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This book is a practical introduction to digital history. It offers advice on the scoping of a project, evaluation of existing digital history resources, a detailed introduction to how to work with large text resources, how to manage digital data and how to approach data visualisation.

Doing digital history covers the entire life-cycle of a digital project, from conception to digital outputs. It assumes no prior knowledge of digital techniques and shows you how much you can do without writing any code. It will give you the skills to use common formats such as XML. A key message of the book is that data preparation is a central part of most digital history projects, but that work becomes much easier and faster with a few essential tools.



Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Glossary
Introduction
1 The context of digital history
2 Formulating your research questions
3 How a digital project begins
4 Working with text 1: unstructured text
5 Working with text 2: structured text
6 Caring for your digital history project
7 Visualising your data
8 What next for digital history?
Test yourself answers
Appendix 1: Getting the data
Appendix 2: Some command line recipes
Appendix 3: Regular expressions
References
Index

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      Publisher Manchester University Press
      Published 18 May 2021
      ISBN-13 9781526132680
      978-1526132680
      ISBN-10 1526132680
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      Dictionaries, Reference & Language Data science and analysis Research methods / methodology History History: theory and methods

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This book is a practical introduction to digital history. It offers advice on the scoping of a project, evaluation of existing digital history resources, a detailed introduction to how to work with large text resources, how to manage digital data and how to approach data visualisation.

      Doing digital history covers the entire life-cycle of a digital project, from conception to digital outputs. It assumes no prior knowledge of digital techniques and shows you how much you can do without writing any code. It will give you the skills to use common formats such as XML. A key message of the book is that data preparation is a central part of most digital history projects, but that work becomes much easier and faster with a few essential tools.



      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgements
      Glossary
      Introduction
      1 The context of digital history
      2 Formulating your research questions
      3 How a digital project begins
      4 Working with text 1: unstructured text
      5 Working with text 2: structured text
      6 Caring for your digital history project
      7 Visualising your data
      8 What next for digital history?
      Test yourself answers
      Appendix 1: Getting the data
      Appendix 2: Some command line recipes
      Appendix 3: Regular expressions
      References
      Index

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