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Dissertations and databases: the historian as software engineer
1995
Research in Learning Technology
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dissertation are useful training not just for the potential historian, but also for the potential software engineer. ...
The historian of tomorrow will be a programmer or he will be nothing. (Emmanuel Le Roy, Le Territoire de l'historien (Paris, 1973)) ...
many software engineers, fail to produce adequate documentation in that part of their studies. ...
doi:10.1080/0968776950030205
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Dissertations and databases: the historian as software engineer
2011
Research in Learning Technology
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The final weeks of the summer term see the normal frantic rush of second-year students looking for a suitable topic for a dissertation. ...
Traditionally, the aim is to produce a piece of work from ten to fifteen thousand words, comprising a significant amount of original research, drawn from primary material, and demonstrating the ability ...
many software engineers, fail to produce adequate documentation in that part of their studies. ...
doi:10.3402/rlt.v3i2.9609
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Paths of Fire: An Anthropologist's Inquiry into Western Technology, by Robert McCormick AdamsPaths of Fire: An Anthropologist's Inquiry into Western Technology, by Robert McCormick Adams. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1996. xvi, 332 pp. $29.95 U.S
1998
Canadian Journal of History
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Software engineering is proving to be a dark and mysterious art, one that can brew up a witches’ cauldron of troubles for the unsuspecting client. ...
The number of scientists may be a trivial example, but what of his dismissal of a more serious reservation — whether engineers trained in the wasteful methods of American defence contractors can operate ...
doi:10.3138/cjh.33.1.147
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Guest Editors' Introduction: PC Software--Word Processing for Everyone
2006
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
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Enough time has passed, then, to let us view personal computing with the historian's eye. ...
View, California. ...
Currently, he is working on a research project to document the history of systems engineering firms located in the vicinity of Tysons Corner, Virginia. ...
doi:10.1109/mahc.2006.65
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Disentangling data, information and knowledge
2017
Big Data & Information Analytics
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Three quarters of a century later variations on this question still intrigue us, and never more so than in the context of computing. ...
At any rate he was clearly implying a hierarchy of quality: wisdom is superior to knowledge, and knowledge is superior to information. ...
From the perspective of a major class of computing practitioners (algorithm designers, programmers, software engineers, and programming language designers and implementers) and computer scientists (programming ...
doi:10.3934/bdia.2016016
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4D Modelling of Built Heritage: A System Offering an Alternative to Using BIM
2018
Digital Studies
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We describe our method based on the synergy between a SQLite database and a 3D software (Autodesk Maya) linked by an algorithm written in Python. ...
These models are designed to illustrate the evolution of heritage buildings and sites over time and record the historian's interpretation of documentary sources. ...
Acknowledgements We would like to thank the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for its support of this research project. ...
doi:10.16995/dscn.283
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It's engineering Jim … but not as we know it
2000
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Software engineering - ICSE '00
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This paper considers the impact and role of the 'engineering' metaphor, and argues that it is time to reconsider its impact on software development practice. ...
So we have a common view that software development needs a rigorous basis, and this is to be found in engineering, and indirectly in science and mathematics. ...
On the other hand we might take the views of those such as Parnas [18] who argues for a distinction between engineering and science: With the basis for software engineering being found in computer science ...
doi:10.1145/337180.337191
dblp:conf/icse/Bryant00
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In Search of the Past: A Lawyer's Perspective
1996
The American Archivist
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Being able to determine a sequence of events relating to a claim is paramount when arguing whether an architect or engineer acted in a professional manner and exercised professional standards of care in ...
The most important element architectural records provide to the defense of legal claims against architects and engineers is the dimension of time. ...
The microfilm is not for the historian's use, but to fill the lawyer's need for evidence in case of suit. ...
doi:10.17723/aarc.59.2.c8q468063x266j1v
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"We were here before the Web and hype…": a brief history of and tribute to the Computational Chemistry List
2018
Journal of Cheminformatics
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We also highlight its value as a corpus for historians of science. ...
We analyze some of its characteristics, the reasons for its duration, value, and resilience, the ways it embodies and preceded the affordances of online communities recognized elsewhere long after its ...
Finally, from the historian's point of view, the issue of the preservation of CCL heritage (and scholar fora heritage in general) is essential. ...
doi:10.1186/s13321-018-0322-7
pmid:30564941
pmcid:PMC6755560
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Guest Editor's Introduction: Digital Methods and Tools for Historical Research
2014
International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing: A Journal of Digital Humanities
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and challenges that, in our opinion, are already affecting the historians' work, such as a greater focus given to interdisciplinarity and collaborative work, and a need for the form of communication of ...
As an introduction to a series of articles focused on the exploration of particular tools and/or methods to bring together digital technology and historical research, the aim of this paper is mainly to ...
lead to exploring new points of view. ...
doi:10.3366/ijhac.2014.0116
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The Future of History: Investigating the Preservation of Information in the Digital Age
2012
Library and Information History
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While the results reject the idea of a single 'digital black hole' in historical records, they emphasise the importance of the issue for the future of history, and the complexity of the solutions to be ...
The study is based on literature analysis and a series of semi-structured interviews with 41 historians, archivists, librarians, and web researchers. ...
web; selection and curation; the historian's craft; and a 'digital black hole'? ...
doi:10.1179/1758348912z.00000000017
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The value of Ada
2016
Communications of the ACM
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The Communications Web site, http://cacm.acm.org, features more than a dozen bloggers in the BLOG@CACM community. In each issue of Communications, we'll publish selected posts or excerpts. ...
This skews any by-discipline view of gender representation. ...
My remarks may need to be discounted a good deal, because I am a white male, which is likely to have affected my view of what I could do. ...
doi:10.1145/2874307
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Multi-grain version control in the Historian system
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1998
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Comprehensive versioning is supported through frequent and automated creation of versions which typically results in a large number of versions. ...
This paper describes Historian, a version control system that supports comprehensive versioning and features to aid history navigation. ...
sound software engineering. ...
doi:10.1007/bfb0053877
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Global and Local Knowledge Organization, Copenhagen, August 12, 2015
2015
Knowledge organization
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Participants and presentations of the conference would be aligned with these lines while presenting their different points of view and enriching the conversations. ...
Smiraglia and Birger Hjørland among others) engaged in fruitful conversations on the tension between the global information structures and the meaning and ethics of information in localized contexts, as ...
and the historian's point of view. ...
doi:10.5771/0943-7444-2015-6-470
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Toward a Praxis of Critical Digital Sport History
2017
Journal of Sport History
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Even the choice of which software will be made available at a university-level might impact the results of a historian's work (e.g. ESRI versus QGIS, SPSS versus R, Gephi versus NodeXL, etc.). ...
Problematic keywords or metadata might construct a different view of the search results for each scholar visiting the interface. ...
doi:10.5406/jsporthistory.44.2.0146
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