Editors’ Choice: Historiography’s Two Voices – Data Infrastructure and History at Scale in the ODNB
Digital Humanities Now 2018-12-04
Summary:
On its release in 2004, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography was called “the greatest book ever” and “a more enthralling read than all the novels ever entered for the Booker Prize put together.”The tabloid The Daily Mail, where these giddy pronouncements appeared, is not known for understatement, but more cautious academic researchers have long...