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Doing Digital History : A Beginner’s Guide to Working with Text as Data, Paperback / softback Book

Doing Digital History : A Beginner’s Guide to Working with Text as Data Paperback / softback

Part of the IHR Research Guides series

Paperback / softback

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This book is a practical introduction to digital history.

It offers advice on the scoping of a project, evaluation of existing digital history resources, a detailed introduction to how to work with large text resources, how to manage digital data and how to approach data visualisation. Doing digital history covers the entire life-cycle of a digital project, from conception to digital outputs.

It assumes no prior knowledge of digital techniques and shows you how much you can do without writing any code.

It will give you the skills to use common formats such as XML.

A key message of the book is that data preparation is a central part of most digital history projects, but that work becomes much easier and faster with a few essential tools. -- .

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