Big Data of the Past

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Introduction by OpenMethods Editor (Delphine Montoliu): This post highlights contemporary methodological challenges of Big Data treatment.

Big Data is not a new phenomenon. History is punctuated by regimes of data acceleration, characterized by feelings of information overload accompanied by periods of social transformation and the invention of new technologies. During these moments, private organizations, administrative powers, and sometimes isolated individuals have produced important datasets, organized following a logic that is often subsequently superseded but was at the time, nevertheless, coherent. To be translated into relevant sources of information about our past, these document series need to be redocumented using contemporary paradigms. The intellectual, methodological, and technological challenges linked to this translation process are the central subject of this article.

 

Original publication date: 29/05/2017.

Source: Frontiers | Big Data of the Past | Digital Humanities