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Durch die voranschreitende Digitalisierung und den Einsatz von computerunterstützten Methoden eröffnen sich für Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften neue Möglichkeiten. Dieses Studienbuch stellt die Grundlagen zu den Digital Humanities („digitale Geisteswissenschaften“) in den Geschichtswissenschaften dar und macht mit wesentlichen Ansätzen und Debatten vertraut. Auf der Basis eines Kreislaufs des geschichtswissenschaftlichen Arbeitens verfolgt das Buch einen praxisorientierten Zugang entlang der Schritte des Forschungsprozesses.

Nanetti outlines a methodology for deploying artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance historical research. Historical events are the treasure of human experiences, the heritage that societies have used to remain resilient and express their identities. Nanetti has created and developed an interdisciplinary methodology supported by practice-based research that serves as a pathway between historical and computer sciences to design and build computational structures that analyse how societies create narratives about historical events. This consilience pathway aims to make historical memory machine-understandable. It turns history into a computational discipline through an interdisciplinary blend of philological accuracy, historical scholarship, history-based media projects, and computational tools. Nanetti presents the theory behind this methodology from a humanities perspective and discusses its practical application in user interface and experience. An essential read for historians and scholars working in the digital humanities.

Geschichte als nicht-linearen Verlauf aufzufassen heißt, historische Zusammenhänge in all ihrer Komplexität auszudrücken. Dabei stoßen wir mit gedruckten Texten an Grenzen. Christian Wachter zeigt: Digitaler Hypertext hingegen erweist sich als konstruktive Erweiterung für die Erkenntnisvermittlung - non-linear gedachte Zusammenhänge werden mit einem non-linearen Medium explizit repräsentiert. Entgegen einem netzwerkartigen Schreiben drängen sich multilinear angelegte und visualisierte Erzählpfade auf, die den narrativen und argumentativen Aufbau der Wissensangebote abbilden. Sie vermitteln dadurch epistemisch Wesentliches.

This book is a greatly supplemented translation from Portuguese, originally published in 2015. It discusses the most appropriate ways to create databases for research on history and other humanities, including an extensive debate about the usages that historians have made of computing since the 1950s. It has four chapters: the first is dedicated to theoretical and methodical questions about the usage of databases in history; the second is about technical issues; the third presents the concept of research engineering (how to improve research in groups); the last is about the construction of databases. The author states that the use of technology in research in history and humanities should be preceded and mediated by theories and methods which deal with these disciplines and not by technical issues. The historian must know how to think “correctly” in order to use the technological tools in an autonomous way. The book provides a background, demonstrating how theory, methodology, and technique are always articulated in historical research, and will appeal to history students and researchers.

Wikipedia ist für Schülerinnen und Schüler in der Regel der erste Anlaufpunkt, wenn es darum geht, unbekannte Sachverhalte zu recherchieren. An Schulen ist die Online-Enzyklopädie damit Realität, ob gewollt oder nicht. Dieser Band erschließt die Wikipedia im Kontext historischen Lernens. Neben Problemen wendet er sich vor allem den Chancen zu, die in einer Nutzung liegen, die über den alltäglichen Gebrauch als bloße Informationsquelle hinausgeht. In der kritischen Auseinandersetzung mit Informationen aus der Wikipedia, wird der eigene Umgang mit Geschichte hinterfragbar. Schülerinnen und Schüler können so eine skeptische Grundhaltung erwerben und pflegen. Der Band bietet hierzu zahlreiche unterrichtspraktische Beispiele.

The Routledge Companion to Spatial History explores the full range of ways in which GIS can be used to study the past, considering key questions such as what types of new knowledge can be developed solely as a consequence of using GIS and how effective GIS can be for different types of research. Global in scope and covering a broad range of subjects, the chapters in this volume discuss ways of turning sources into a GIS database, methods of analysing these databases, methods of visualising the results of the analyses, and approaches to interpreting analyses and visualisations. Chapter authors draw from a diverse collection of case studies from around the world, covering topics from state power in imperial China to the urban property market in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro, health and society in twentieth-century Britain and the demographic impact of the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915. Critically evaluating both the strengths and limitations of GIS and illustrated with over two hundred maps and figures, this volume is an essential resource for all students and scholars interested in the use of GIS and spatial analysis as a method of historical research.

It's been almost 30 years since the first edition of Going to the Sources: A Guide to Historical Research and Writing was first published. Newly revised and updated, the sixth edition of this bestselling guide helps students at all levels meet the challenge of writing their first (or their first “real”) research paper. Presenting various schools of thought, this useful tool explores the dynamic, nature, and professional history of research papers, and shows readers how to identify, find, and evaluate both primary and secondary sources for their own writing assignments. This new edition addresses the shifting nature of historical study over the last twenty years. Going to the Sources: A Guide to Historical Research and Writing includes: A new section analyzing attempts by authors of historical works to identify and cultivate the appropriate public for their writings, from scholars appealing to a small circle of fellow specialists, to popular authors seeking mass readership A handy style guide for creating footnotes, endnotes, bibliographical entries, as well as a list of commonly used abbreviations Advanced Placement high school and undergraduate college students taking history courses at every level will benefit from the engaging, thoughtful, and down-to-earth advice within this hands-on guide.

Das populäre Weltbild und damit auch das Geschichtsbild werden zunehmend durch das Internet geprägt. Die Online-Enzyklopädie Wikipedia trägt durch ihre Popularität hierzu wesentlich bei. Aus verschiedenen Gründen hadert die Geschichtswissenschaft aber noch mit dem interaktiven Nachschlagewerk. Trotz aller inhaltlichen Probleme stellt die Wikipedia aber mittlerweile eine quantitativ große Sammlung von Einzeldaten dar, die bei entsprechend kritischen Methoden auch für die Geschichtswissenschaft ertragreich sein kann. Im Sammelband wird die Wikipedia als von außen an die Geschichtswissenschaft herangetragene Herausforderung analysiert. Systematisch werden Probleme wie Rückschaufehler, Ingroup-Bias, Geschichtsfragmentierung, Tendenz zu Biografiengeschichte oder zu rhizomartiger Ausprägung untersucht, aber auch die möglichen Schnittstellen für eine Zusammenarbeit mit der Wikipedia-Community in der akademischen Forschung und Lehre aufgrund der bisherigen Erfahrungen zusammengefasst. Eine Chronologie der Entwicklung der Wikipedia und eine umfangreiche Bibliographie runden den Band ab.

Writing History in the Digital Age began as a “what-if” experiment by posing a question: How have Internet technologies influenced how historians think, teach, author, and publish? To illustrate their answer, the contributors agreed to share the stages of their book-in-progress as it was constructed on the public web. To facilitate this innovative volume, editors Jack Dougherty and Kristen Nawrotzki designed a born-digital, open-access, and open peer review process to capture commentary from appointed experts and general readers. A customized WordPress plug-in allowed audiences to add page- and paragraph-level comments to the manuscript, transforming it into a socially networked text. The initial six-week proposal phase generated over 250 comments, and the subsequent eight-week public review of full drafts drew 942 additional comments from readers across different parts of the globe. The finished product now presents 20 essays from a wide array of notable scholars, each examining (and then breaking apart and reexamining) if and how digital and emergent technologies have changed the historical profession.

The fifth edition of Going to the Sources maintains its sterling reputation as one of the most accessible and student-friendly introductions to historiography. This text, accessible to students at the community college, undergraduate, and, in some cases even beginning graduate school level, outlines the fundamental methods utilized in the research and writing of history. The new edition features a wealth of updates and enhancements, along with the addition of a new chapter addressing the use of film and other non-textual sources by historians—for example, how a film like D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation can influence perceptions of history. Other chapters maintain a focus on the basics of the historian's craft, including selecting and refining a topic; and locating and utilizing the necessary books, articles, essays, and online sources. Students are shown how to engage effectively in critical reading, interpreting, note-taking, writing, and revising. The creation of a historiographical essay and a longer research paper are discussed in detail. Methodological matters are interwoven with a discussion of the dynamic nature of history, in which the concept of revisionism is central and reveals that new interpretations of the past are an essential corollary to changing social, political, economic, and cultural structures. With a wealth of updates, revisions, and enhancements, Going to the Sources is a student's most valuable “go-to” source for research and historical writing.