History and Computing
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7190-3211-0 (ISBN)
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The first conference of the UK branch of the Association of History and Computing brought together archivists, computer specialists and history teachers from all levels of education. This book contains a selection of the presentations from that meeting demonstrating the "state-of-the-art" in historical computing in the specific area of databases. The themes discussed include the nature of historical databases, their creation from historical sources, their analysis in research in political, urban and medical history, and their exploitation in teaching. The contributions are grouped in sections on sources, methods, teaching and research. The section on methods makes a contribution to the debate about classification and coding. The final essay situates the field of historical computing within the discipline of history.
Part 1 Foreward: the historian and the database, Lou Burnard. Part 2 Sources: jubilant and joyful or distraught and disillusioned - computer applications in the searchroom - the experience of Glasgow University archives, Michael Moss; liberating the historical record, Arnott Wilson; the medical archives and manuscripts survey - three in one - surveying, publishing and creating a database, Janet Foster and Marion I.Bowman; computerization of the national register of archives - designing a system for staff and public use, James Parker. Part 3 Methods: the classification of occupation in past time problems of fission and fusion, Stuart Blumin; from historian's know-how to knowledge base - using a shell, Caroline Bourlet and Jean Luc-Minel; hypertext and art history in art design education at Coventry Polytechnic faculty of art design, Alan Dyer; multi-sourced and integrated databases for the prosopographer, Daniel I.Greenstein; structuring the past - the occupational and household classificaton of census data, Edward Higgs; the computer scientist and the historian - problems - yes, solution - pending, John Jeacocke; the historian and codes - master and slave or slave and master?, Kevin Schurer. Part 4 Teaching: seeking patterns, making meanings - using computerized sources in teaching history in secondary schools, Frances Blow; the microcomputer in the history classroom, opportunities and challenges for pupils and teachers, James M.McArthur; the future of the past - the use of the multisource visual database to aid historical understanding, Robert K.Munro; taking the plunge - planning a course on computing for historians, Colin Phillips; computers, education and the transmisson of historical knowledge, project CLIO, Jeffrey L.Newton; computing for history undergraduates - a first year foundation course, Andrew Ayton; counting heads - using small datasets from 18th century English and Danish census type sources in undergraduate courses, Thomas Munck; prosopography and proletarian governments, using mainframes, complex software and research databases in undergraduate teaching, Evan Mawdsley and Stephen Whitelaw; improving and expanding computer-based history teaching for undergraduates, Richard Trainor. Part 5 Research: computerising the godly - the application small databases to anecdotal history, Donald A.Spaeth; the treaty of union - influencing the Scottish vote, 1706-07, Allan I.Macinnes; a database for historical reconstruction - Manchester in the industrial revolution, Roger Lloyd-Jones and M.J.Lewis; Glasgow valuation database - sources and strategies, Nicholas J.Morgan; census studies, comparatively speaking, Brenda Collins; identifying social networks with a computer-aided analysis of personal diaries, Stana Nenadic; the medical profession in Scotland, 1911 - the creation of a machine-readable database, Marguerite Dupree. Part 6 Conclusion: the nature and future of historical computing, Charles Harvey.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 24.1.1991 |
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| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik |
| Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Datenbanken | |
| Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7190-3211-3 / 0719032113 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7190-3211-0 / 9780719032110 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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