sheffield digital humanities congress, 7-9-2012
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The Problem of Citation in the Digital Humanities Jonathan Blaney Institute of Historical Research. Sheffield Digital Humanities Congress, 7-9-2012. http://youtu.be/cWhh9Xubwe4. “...if we also learn to live by the golden rule, which Jesus Christ taught us: Love thy neighbour as thyself .” - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
The Problem of Citation in the Digital Humanities
Jonathan BlaneyInstitute of Historical Research
Sheffield Digital Humanities Congress, 7-9-2012
http://youtu.be/cWhh9Xubwe4
“...if we also learn to live by the golden rule, which Jesus Christ taught us: Love thy neighbour as thyself.”
http://youtu.be/cWhh9Xubwe44’25”-4’34”
Matthew 19.19 Matthew 23.39
Mark 12.31-33 Luke 10.27
www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/uniqueness_sanders.pdf
TIDSRToolkit for the Impact of Digitised Scholarly
Resources
http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2009/05/18/you-can-now-measure-the-impact-of-your-online-resource/
Aggregate results for 2008-9
• Scopus 37• Google Scholar 43• Common to both 9• Page views 31,367,021
“Is there any way of obtaining accurate page numbers for parts of
the sources? Although the whole site is fantastic for research, it makes
citation very difficult”
“If a book is available in more than one format, cite the version you consulted. For books consulted online list a URL...”
http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html
Citations are too long.
What’s the point? Isn’t it like citing which library I got the
book from?
Opacity
100 years’ time
PRO, E/135/2/57, ff. 47v-8
MS Vitellius A.XV, f.132
“I am trying to find the source of ‘Trans. Hist. Soc. (NewSer.), xiv,
241’”
2001.10482003/24262006.690.4
“Even a brief exercise in comparison reveals a staggering range of divergent practices under
history’s apparently stable surface.”
Anthony Grafton, The Footnote: A Curious History, Faber and Faber, 1997, p7
“Like the diplomas on a dentist’s wall, footnotes prove that historians are ‘good enough’
practitioners to be consulted and recommended.”
Ibid, p22
Past and Present History Workshop JournalGender and HistoryEconomic History Review History
Social History Contemporary British HistoryEnglish Historical Review
Historical Research Cold War HistoryTwentieth Century British History
Northern History
www.british-history.ac.uk/VCH/Oxon15/Clanfield-religious
VCH Oxon, volume 15, p.139
www.british-history.ac.uk/VCH/Oxon15/Clanfeild-religious
VCH Oxon, volume 15, p.139
VCH Oxon, volume 5, p.139VCH Oxon, volume 15,
p.319
http://www.royal.gov.uk/ImagesandBroadcasts/TheQueensChristmasBroadcasts/ChristmasBroadcasts/ChristmasBroadcast1989.aspx
IHR Digital www.history.ac.uk/digital & @ihr_history
Reports, using TIDSR: http://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/2819/ http://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/2957/