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Source Oriented Data Processing and Quantification: Distrustful Brothers [1995]
Quellenorientierte Datenverarbeitung und Quantifizierung: misstrauische Brüder
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Abstract Historians using computers to apply quantitative methods and historians using computers for other things have strained relationships. This is not the result of mutual bad will, but results from genuine differences between information as provided by contemporary phenomena and that derived from histor... mehr
Historians using computers to apply quantitative methods and historians using computers for other things have strained relationships. This is not the result of mutual bad will, but results from genuine differences between information as provided by contemporary phenomena and that derived from historical documents. Only after these differences are taken care of quantitative and other formal methods are methodologically safe. A tentative model for a possible solution of part of these problems by fuzzy logic is presented. More generally we discuss which developments are needed in the application of information technology to historical research to ease the strained relationship mentioned at the beginning.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
quantitative Methode; Erkenntnistheorie; Geschichtswissenschaft; Historiker; Datenverarbeitung; Informationstechnologie; Computer; Quantifizierung
Klassifikation
Naturwissenschaften, Technik(wissenschaften), angewandte Wissenschaften
Freie Schlagwörter
digital humanities; fuzzy logic; quantitative methods; epistemology
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2017
Seitenangabe
S. 287-306
Zeitschriftentitel
Historical Social Research, Supplement (2017) 29
Heftthema
From History to Applied Science in the Humanities
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.suppl.29.2017.287-306
ISSN
0936-6784
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)