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Phrasing history: Selecting sources in digital repositories

Content Provider	Scilit
Author	Huistra, Hieke Mellink, Bram
Copyright Year	2016
Description	Journal: Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History In recent years, mass digitization has opened up voluminous text corpora to human interpretation. Full-text search lets historians now find new sources that can change their understanding of thoroughly studied historical episodes. At the same time, it forces scholars to access historical sources in a new way: through specific words. This article analyses the consequences of this new way of accessing sources and investigates which search technologies are best suited for historical source selection in digital repositories. It argues that to seize the opportunities that digitization offers, historians must refine their search technologies so that they are based on words but are less dependent on exact phraseology.
Related Links	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01615440.2016.1205964?needAccess=true
Ending Page	229
Page Count	10
Starting Page	220
ISSN	01615440
e-ISSN	19401906
DOI	10.1080/01615440.2016.1205964
Journal	Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History
Issue Number	4
Volume Number	49
Language	English
Publisher	Informa UK Limited
Publisher Date	2016-10-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Journal: Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History Digital Humanities Digitization Full-text Search Keyword Search Source Selection
Content Type	Text
Subject	History

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