Entries filed under  'history'


Digital Modernities: Why We Need to Think Historically About the Digital Age

Slides of my talk 'Digital Modernities: Why We Need to Think Historically About the Digital Age', presented by The National School of Arts and Humanities at Australian Catholic University and Thesis Eleven Journal.

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Digital Modernity: Continuity and Change in the History of Technology, 1993 – 2023

Abstract and slides for my Miegunyah Public Lecture, 'Digital Modernity: Continuity and Change in the History of Technology, 1993 – 2023', delivered at the University of Melbourne, August 17th, 2023.

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Old Bailey Online research in New Zealand, and a full data source

With the approval of the Old Bailey Online team, I’m happy to report that the full dataset of the Old Bailey Online can be downloaded here: http://www.math.canterbury.ac.nz/~r.sainudiin/datasets/public/OldBailey/. More sources for the data are expected to follow but this seems a nice way to build on the work underway in New Zealand.

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Introduce data mining to your History course in 2 minutes

https://www.mashape.com/ offers Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that perform common text analysis tasks, including the one we’ll use for this tutorial: Named Entity Recognition (NER). Text analysis is a good way to introduce students to data mining. You can use text documents, or a URL.

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HIST 450 Digital History Seminar – Additional Reading

This list is intended as an additional resource for the University of Canterbury HIST 450: History as a Discipline (Honours) class. The Centre for History and New Media (http://chnm.gmu.edu/resources/essays/) maintain another very useful list, many of which are represented below. Some historical method textbooks will also have sections on computing-related issues. The Zotero Digital History group influences is another essential resource.

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