Digital History: Using Internet as Historians

by Serge Noiret - [serge.noiret@eui.eu] History Information Specalist,

(The course will be held the 13th of October 2010, 15 to 17, Sala Triaria, Villa Schifanoia)

Four area's for a digital historian's use of the web

  • Services offered through web technologies and software's in the field of humanities computing (see A Companion to Digital Humanities,
    ed. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
  • Primary sources accessible on the web (see EHPS - European History Primar Source)
  • Historiography (or writings of history) available online
  • Distance e-teaching and e-learning activities.

How to become a digital historian ?

  • What are the online "resources" for historians ?
  • What's on the web now, what's no yet there and what was there ?
  • How to find what I want on the internet: the "entries" to the web.
  • How could I use what I found on the web: are they new ways for writing history ?

Services offered through web technologies and web 2.0 technologies

Primary sources accessible on the web through the EHPS portal

Is there any historiography online ?

Critical and methodological issues for the digital historian

Page updated: 12/10/2009