Noam Chomsky We’re all familiar with traditional citation metrics: you measure references to books, articles, and people, and those references occur in other books and articles. For example between 1980 and 1992, according to this article, the linguistics maven...
The August 2012 issue of Historical Research is now available. Contents include articles on ‘John Cabot and his Italian financiers’ by Francesco Guidi-Bruscoli; ‘The medicalization of poverty in colonial India’ by David Arnold; ‘The...
When you embark on historical research do you think much about backing up your data? Do you have files scattered all over the place with random names that make it very difficult to figure out what is what? Have you considered how you might make your data available...
So who has been the best prime minster of Britain since 1945? A 2010 survey in The Political Quarterly [1] lists the following order:-AttleeThatcherBlairMacmillanWilsonChurchillCallaghanMajorHeathBrownDouglas-HomeEdenBased on a survey of academics, the list echoes a...
A few weeks ago, as mentioned in an earlier post, I attended the Linked Data course at the Oxford Digital Humanities Summer School. As part of the course we wrote (or tried to write) some SPARQL queries. SPARQL is the query language used to interrogate RDF and was...
Nixon’s secretary, Rose Mary Woods, from the Gerald R. Ford Library and MuseumLast week I attended the Oxford Digital Humanities Summer School, where I was taking the course on linked data. As well as the course sessions there were plenary lectures, of which one...
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