-
Digital contemporary history: sources, tools, methods, issues
- Author(s):
- Peter Webster (see profile)
- Date:
- 2017
- Group(s):
- Library & Information Science, Social History of Archives
- Subject(s):
- History of contemporary events, Library materials--Digitization, Archival materials--Digitization
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- web archives, Contemporary history, Digital archives, Digital history, Digitisation
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M60Z70W1K
- Abstract:
- This essay suggests that there has been a relative lack of digitally enabled historical research on the recent past, when compared to earlier periods of history. It explores why this might be the case, focussing in particular on both the obstacles and some missing drivers to mass digitisation of primary sources for the 20th century. It suggests that the situation is likely to change, and relatively soon, as a result of the increasing availability of sources that were born digital, and of Web archives in particular. The article ends with some reflections on several shifts in method and approach, which that changed situation is likely to entail.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 5 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
Downloads
Item Name: 
webster_digitalcontemporaryhistory_temp_14_2017.pdfDownload View in browser Activity: Downloads: 217
