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Historiography’s Two Voices: Data Infrastructure and History at Scale in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB)
- Author(s):
- Christopher Warren (see profile)
- Date:
- 2018
- Group(s):
- Digital Humanities, TM Libraries and Research
- Subject(s):
- Biography--Study and teaching, Great Britain, History, Critical theory, Data mining, Mass media--Study and teaching, Archaeology, Books
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- ODNB, History of information, big data, Biography Studies, British history, Critical data studies, Infrastructure, Media archaeology, Book history
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/qsd3-pb88
- Abstract:
- Behind the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is a deep substrate that includes a vast data management system, highly detailed SGML markup conventions, extensive international labor, and the enormous cultural weight of the Victorian-era DNB. In this article, I argue that it is only by investigating components of our historiographical infrastructure like the ODNB (1.) in their entirety and (2.) as historically contingent digital artifacts that we can fully access their double voice, and it is only then that we can understand the knowledge they make available and the knowledge-making they constrain.
- Notes:
- Cite as: Christopher N. Warren, "Historiography's Two Voices: Data Infrastructure and History at Scale in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB)," Journal of Cultural Analytics. November 22, 2018. 10.31235/osf.io/rbkdh Dataverse DOI: 10.7910/DVN/D3KFLP
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 4 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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