Computing for Historians
An Introductory Guide
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3594794 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard J Jensen, Richard Jensen (0000-0002-1016-1524, corresponding author), Evan Mawdsley, Thomas Munck (0000-0002-8856-4112) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 481 |
| Publication date | 1996-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1953 • E-ISSN: 1530-9169 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/206039 |
| OpenAlex | W2044008631 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Part 1 Background: history and computing - the second revolution computer systems - an introduction word-processing for historians. Part 2 Census - an introductory historical database: structured sources using a database - basic queries enriching the information - coding and structure simple statistics - description, correlation and sampling. Part 3 Sources, resources and approaches: more advanced database techniques - collective biography tables and spreadsheets - voting and the census using existing databases - economic perspectives linking sources - comprehensive analysis of a community beyond the database - text analysis, hypertext and computer-assisted learning. Appendices: the Gorbals census dataset CD-ROM and on-line historical bibliographies
Engineering ethics · Management science · Mathematics education · Computer Science · Engineering · Library Science and Information Systems · Philippine History and Culture · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1995 - 1998 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |