History and the Knowledge Society
During the workshop, we will try to identify and document examples in which History intersects with applied computing, in order to contextualize this discipline for the knowledge society.
As starter points for conversation, this page includes the following:
- An Example of Teaching and Researching History in a Digital Environment
- Utilizing Technology in History: Researching, Teaching, and Interacting in the Professional Arena
Grand Challenges
- Information literacy
- Disconnect between the disciplinary needs and the capabilities offered by computing tools
- Lack of tools to perform temporal data analysis-- contextualization
- Archiving limitations
- Lack of funding (humanity)
- Disciplinary individualism (solitary researchers)
- Lack of research support / tools
Solutions to Grand Challenges
- Toolbox (replace 10 different not-so-suitable tools like MS Word)
- Pedagogy: Law school example (evidence-based)
- Computational thinking lab (to help others to integrate computational thinking in their teaching and research)
- Importance of unicode, multilingual support in history documentation tools
- More problems (quantification as a hammer)
Some Links
- The Programming Historian an open source / open access introduction to Python programming for historians and other humanists