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How to Make a Database in Historical Studies

How to Make a Database in Historical Studies

Gil, Tiago Luís

Paperback

Series: Springerbriefs in History of Science and Technology

PhilosophyDatabasesHistoriography

ISBN10: 3030782409
ISBN13: 9783030782405
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jul 28 2021
Pages: 93
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.22 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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.

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