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  title info:
    title: History in the age of abundance?
    sub title: how the web is transforming historical research
  name:
    name part: Milligan, Ian
    name part: 1983-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: quc
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 310 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Believe it or not, the 1990s are history. As historians turn to study this period and beyond, they will encounter a historical record that is radically different from what has ever existed before. Old websites, social media, blogs, photographs and videos are all part of the massive quantities of digital information that technologists, librarians, archivists and organizations like the Internet Archive have been collecting for the past three decades. In History in the Age of Abundance?, Ian Milligan argues that web-based historical sources and their archives present extraordinary opportunities as well as daunting technical and ethical challenges for historians. Through case studies, he outlines the approaches, methods, tools and search functions that can help a historian turn web documents into historical sources. He also considers the implications of the size and scale of digital sources, which amount to more information than historians have ever had at their fingertips, and many of which are by and about people who have traditionally been absent from the historical record. Scrutinizing the concept of the web and the mechanics of its archives, Milligan explains how these new media challenge, reshape and enrich both the historical profession and the historical record. A wake-up call for historians of the twenty-first century, History in the Age of Abundance? is an essential introduction to the way web archives work, what possibilities they open up, what risks they entail and what the shift to digital information means for historians, their professional training and organization and society as a whole.
  table of contents: Exploding the library -- Web archives and their collectors -- Accessing the records of our lives -- Unexpected needles in big haystacks -- Welcome to geocities, population seven million -- The (practical) historian in the age of big data.
  note: Ian Milligan.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Web archives
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: History
    topic: Research
    genre: Case studies
  classification: ZA4197 .M55 2019
  classification: 027
  identifier: 9780773556973
  identifier: 0773556974
  identifier: 9780773556966
  identifier: 0773556966
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 181120
    record change date: 20210125091343.0
    record identifier: in00004277870
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng