Introduction: Digital History

Abstract

New digital methods are currently enhancing the historian’s toolbox fundamentally. This thematic issue is a collection of papers discussing case studies in the fields of digitization, optical character recognition, distant reading, text mining, network analysis, and historical geographical information systems. The papers discuss opportunities and limitations in the application of digital methods in historical studies and point out fields of future applications.

Keywords

• digital history
• digitization
• distant reading
• historical geographical information systems
• network analysis
• optical character recognition
• text mining
• digitalisierung
• historisch-geographische informationssysteme
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• c 88
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