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- Title
Logical effects of data bases on the study of historical sources.
- Authors
Gardin, J.-C.
- Abstract
The article presents information on logical effects of data bases on the study of historical sources. The title of this article may appear curious in many respects. Some readers may think it is too early to consider the effects of an innovation still beyond the ken of most people studying the subject referred to, and not fully accepted even by those who have actually made an effort to understand its implications. And why should such a study be more particularly affected by data bases, or subject to their effects? The reason is quite simple, namely that there is an obvious affinity between the study of historical sources and the very principle of data bases and that it is consequently possible to foresee the effects of the latter upon the former from a strictly logical standpoint, without waiting for empirical confirmation. Moreover, it is not quite true to say that the meeting of the two is of very recent date. The first archaeological data base using punched cards was established and put before the public close on twenty years ago and then offered for sale through the normal publishing channels in a form which made it even more public, a few years later and since that time the spate of similar undertakings, in the most varied branches of the study of historical sources-the history of art, epigraphy, glyptics and so on-demonstrates at least that the meeting of the two is not a phenomenon of today.
- Subjects
HISTORICAL source material; DATABASES; ELECTRONIC information resources; TECHNOLOGICAL innovations; ART; GLYPTICS; ENGRAVING
- Publication
International Social Science Journal, 1975, Vol 27, Issue 4, p761
- ISSN
0020-8701
- Publication type
Article