Historical information science
Subtitle: an emerging unidiscipline
By: Lawrence J. McCrank.
Publisher: Information Today
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Medford, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1192
Subjects: History -- Research.; Historiography -- Methodology.; Electronic records.; History -- Computer network resources.; Internet.; Information technology -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 631-975) and indexes.
Table of contents: value: Machine generated contents note: Preface: 1; value: Introduction 3; value: Chapter 1. Foundations and Definitions 15; value: Changing Times and Terms 16; value: Scientific Historicism, Method, and Technique 16; value: Historical and Information Work 24; value: Historical Information Science 37; value: Origins and Developments 59; value: Debated New Beginnings 59; value: Introspection and New Skepticism 66; value: Converging Technologies, Ideas, and Disciplines 75; value: Chapter 2. Reflexive Inspection:; value: Information, Technology, and Culture 85; value: History Information: Bibliography and Use 85; value: Literature Searching and Bibliographic Control 85; value: Library Science and Historian Use Studies 120; value: Computer Literacy and History Computing Initiatives 139; value: History of Information Science and Technology 149; value: History of Information Institutions 151; value: History of Information Science 160; value: History of Information Technology 171; value: New Cultural Studies and Management 181; value: Collective Memory and Culture 183; value: Organizational Culture and Corporate Memory 208; value: Chapter 3. Sources and Evidence:; value: Data and Electronic Archives 233; value: History-Archives Relations 234; value: Providers and Users: Rising Mutual Expectations 234; value: Archives Access: Description, Automation, and Retro-Conversion 241; value: Electronic Records and Archives 252; value: Historical Source Repositories: Confused Traditions 252; value: Data Archives 258; value: Crisis, Ferment, and Reform 266; value: Evidence and Risk Management 278; value: Data Warehouses: Re-engineering Electronic Archives 306; value: Chapter 4. New Historicism and Unidisciplinary History331; value: Diffusion and Confusion 331; value: Quantified Social Science History 341; value: Historical and Scientific Evidence 342; value: Analytic Tools 346; value: Problematic Data: Use and Interpretation 357; value: New History and New Science 381; value: Multi-dimensional Views 402; value: Narration and Visualization: Text and Image Analysis 407; value: Encoded Texts for Discourse and Literary Analysis 412; value: Images, Artifacts, and Art Information 446; value: Medieval Studies and Electronic Sources: Exemplary Syncretism 477; value: Chapter 5. Historical Information Science Issues495; value: Technology 495; value: Technological Obsolescence and Preservation 496; value: Retrospective Source Conversion 512; value: Description, Terminology, and Data Exchange 521; value: Software Solutions 530; value: Education and Training 541; value: Teaching History 542; value: Training Historians 574; value: Chapter 6. The Future of the Past593; value: Conclusion 593; value: Epilogue 599; value: Appendices 603; value: Appendix A: Principles for Ni Development in the United States 603; value: Appendix B: Internet/WWW Information Sources:A Select List of URLs 604; value: General Internet/WWW Information 604; value: Archives Sites 604; value: Arts Sites 605; value: History Sites 606; value: Library Sites 606; value: Museum Sites 606; value: Project Sites 607; value: Appendix C: Functional Requirements of Recordkeeping Systems 610; value: Appendix D: Action Recommendations for Historical Associations 615; value: Membership 615; value: Associations 615; value: Appendix E: Historical Information Science; value: Graduate Program Curricular Guide 617; value: Appendix F: Information Technology (IT) Development Timeline 621; value: G lossary 627; value: Definitions 627; value: Criteria for Scientific Evidence 628; value: References631; value: About the Author977; value: Subject Index979; value: Author Name Index 1169.