Lecture / Seminar
wesley.booth@acadiau.ca
(902) 585-1777
Event in Room: BAC 132
Title: Big Data and History: How Web Archives Will Challenge, Complement and Enhance the Historical Profession
Who: Ian Milligan, Assistant Professor of Digital and Canadian History at Waterloo University
Abstract:
"Big Data and History” argues that we need to understand the implications of the arrival of new archives: web collections. These collections of websites aggregated into single files necessitate a rethinking of how historians will approach their professional standards and trainings, with particular implications for historians studying topics involving the 1980s onwards. While historians are normally accustomed to not having enough information about their topic, the problem for many is now shifting towards having far too much data. How can humanities-based researchers begin to grapple with these problems?
Bio:
Ian Milligan is an assistant professor of digital and Canadian history at the University of Waterloo, working on how historians can engage with web archives. He serves as a founding co-editor of the public history website ActiveHistory.ca, teaches in the area of historical methodologies and postwar Canadian history, and contributes extensively to the Programming Historian (programminghistorian.org) project.
wesley.booth@acadiau.ca
(902) 585-1777
Event in Room: BAC 132
Title: Big Data and History: How Web Archives Will Challenge, Complement and Enhance the Historical Profession
Who: Ian Milligan, Assistant Professor of Digital and Canadian History at Waterloo University
Abstract:
"Big Data and History” argues that we need to understand the implications of the arrival of new archives: web collections. These collections of websites aggregated into single files necessitate a rethinking of how historians will approach their professional standards and trainings, with particular implications for historians studying topics involving the 1980s onwards. While historians are normally accustomed to not having enough information about their topic, the problem for many is now shifting towards having far too much data. How can humanities-based researchers begin to grapple with these problems?
Bio:
Ian Milligan is an assistant professor of digital and Canadian history at the University of Waterloo, working on how historians can engage with web archives. He serves as a founding co-editor of the public history website ActiveHistory.ca, teaches in the area of historical methodologies and postwar Canadian history, and contributes extensively to the Programming Historian (programminghistorian.org) project.
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