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From ‘analogue’ to digital history
Doing small ‘hacky’ steps rather than a whole transformation
Dr Katrina NavickasUniversity of Hertfordshire
Why do it?• Speed and volume – ‘automate
the boring stuff’• Be more systematic and
comprehensive• Do more with your databases• new ways of visualising research• Making research more
interactive – public engagement
• New methods, theories and approaches to analysis• Historians (and students) now
use digitised sources – imperative we understand and critically analyse how these sources are made and organised
It all starts with a database – once you’ve got a spreadsheet of data, you can ‘add value’
Using Google Fusion Tables – upload your database & you can manipulate the data immediately
Start with online tools – no experience necessary
http://sandbox.idre.ucla.edu/tools/geocoder/
http://mapwarper.net/
Building a historical gazetteer• Extracted place names run through
http://sandbox.idre.ucla.edu/tools/geocoder/ • Run again through Python code with
parameters of lat and long to check outliers • To remember: Add different variations of
addresses, including punctuation • ‘Missing’ places located by eye – locating
them on geo-referenced historic maps layered on QGIS or Google Earth – and lat/long entered manually
Try some mapping using QGIS
Learn some basic techniques using Programminghistorian.org
Text-mining – makes you more critically aware of the parameters & the flaws in digitised sources
http://programminghistorian.org/lessons/generating-an-ordered-data-set-from-an-OCR-text-file
politicalmeetingsmapper.co.uk on the Omeka platform
http://protesthistory.org.uk/