Title :
Humanities ‘big data’: Myths, challenges, and lessons
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Inf. Studies, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Abstract :
This paper argues that there have always been `big data´ in the humanities, and challenges commonly held myths in this regard. It does so by discussing the case of transnational research on dispersed communities. Concluding, it examines the lessons humanities and sciences can learn from each other.
Keywords :
Big Data; humanities; dispersed communities; humanities Big data; transnational research; Communities; Data handling; Data storage systems; History; Information management; Materials; Scholarships; archives; communities; diasporas; humanities; transnational; web resources;
Conference_Titel :
Big Data, 2013 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Silicon Valley, CA
DOI :
10.1109/BigData.2013.6691667
