Digital History: STATE OF THE FIELD REVIEW ESSAY

Piper, A; Jones, M

Digital History: STATE OF THE FIELD REVIEW ESSAY

Piper, A

Jones, M

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Publisher:: Taylor and Francis Group
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Australian Historical Studies, 2023, pp. 1-26
Issue Date:: 2023-11-01

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dc.contributor.author	Piper, A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9369-5862
dc.contributor.author	Jones, M
dc.date.accessioned	2023-11-01T22:14:10Z
dc.date.available	2023-11-01T22:14:10Z
dc.date.issued	2023-11-01
dc.identifier.citation	Australian Historical Studies, 2023, pp. 1-26
dc.identifier.issn	1031-461X
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/172947
dc.description.abstract	Digital history started to flourish in Australia and New Zealand in the 2000s and early 2010s. But some of this momentum has since been lost due to ageing technologies, a lack of supporting infrastructure, funding issues, discontinued projects, and limited teaching and training opportunities. This ‘state of the field’ article on digital history seeks to encourage greater reflexivity in the discipline by providing a detailed overview of the local context. It highlights some of the longstanding projects that continue to dominate the digital history landscape, while also exploring newly emerging innovations, opportunities and challenges. Examining such topics as infrastructure and tool development, digital archives and repositories, big history, public history, digital methods, and teaching, the authors conclude that additional investment is required to support progress in the field, and to ensure that past projects and data remain accessible into the future.
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Taylor and Francis Group
dc.relation.ispartof	Australian Historical Studies
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1080/1031461X.2023.2267586
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dc.rights	© 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
dc.subject	2103 Historical Studies
dc.subject.classification	History
dc.subject.classification	4302 Heritage, archive and museum studies
dc.subject.classification	4303 Historical studies
dc.title	Digital History: STATE OF THE FIELD REVIEW ESSAY
dc.type	Journal Article
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Abstract:

Digital history started to flourish in Australia and New Zealand in the 2000s and early 2010s. But some of this momentum has since been lost due to ageing technologies, a lack of supporting infrastructure, funding issues, discontinued projects, and limited teaching and training opportunities. This ‘state of the field’ article on digital history seeks to encourage greater reflexivity in the discipline by providing a detailed overview of the local context. It highlights some of the longstanding projects that continue to dominate the digital history landscape, while also exploring newly emerging innovations, opportunities and challenges. Examining such topics as infrastructure and tool development, digital archives and repositories, big history, public history, digital methods, and teaching, the authors conclude that additional investment is required to support progress in the field, and to ensure that past projects and data remain accessible into the future.

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