Exploring Big Historical Data: The Historian’s Macroscope

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If you want to buy a copy, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211030230922/http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/p981">you can purchase one for $39.0_0 USD</a>. Feel free to visit our original live-written fully open draft, which is available through <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211030230922/http://web.archive.org/web/20200618171130/http://www.themacroscope.org/?page_id=584">The Internet Archive</a> – and if you like what you see, you can always buy the book! (The draft was originally written using Wordpress + Commentpress; but unfortunately, keeping the various bits and pieces that made that site work, and kept it secure, proved too onerous after several years to keep maintaining. There’s a lesson right there, for digital history. What’s <em>your</em> long term preservation strategy for your digital work?)</p> </div> <div id="first-edition" class="section level2"> <h2>First Edition</h2> <p>For the resources that accompanied the 2015 version, please see the <a href="/web/20211030230922/http://www.themacroscope.org/1.0/">First Edition</a> website. For the discussion of the volume at our book launch at 2015, listen to it <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211030230922/https://soundcloud.com/shawn-graham-60451318/exploring-big-historical-data-the-historians-macroscope-book-launch-carleton-u-audio">here</a></p> </div> <div id="second-edition" class="section level2"> <h2>Second Edition</h2> <p>The second edition, with new co-author <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211030230922/https://www.kim-martin.ca/">Kim Martin</a> is currently being put together. We aim to submit it to the publisher by the spring of 2021. The second edition features new datasets, new code, correction of errors, and expansion of possibilities for what and who digital history can be about. In the meantime, do read Dr. Martin’s piece in <em>The Canadian Historical Review</em> 101(4): 622-650 on ‘Clio, Rewired: Propositions for the Future of Digital History Pedagogy in Canada’. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211030230922/https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/chr-2020-0021">DOI: 10.3138/chr-2020-0021</a>.</p> </div> <div id="postcards" class="section level2"> <h2>Postcards</h2> <p>This current website was made with the static website generator <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211030230922/https://github.com/seankross/postcards">‘Postcards’</a>, a package for R by Sean Kross. It creates a simple one-page website from a static text file. This should prove longer lasting than our former Wordpress setup.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="container-flex min-vh-100 d-block d-lg-none d-xl-none"> <div class="d-flex flex-row justify-content-center"> <div class="d-flex flex-col"> <div class="mx-auto"> <div class="p-3 mt-3 text-center"> <img src="/web/20211030230922im_/http://www.themacroscope.org/cover1.jpg" style="height:15rem" class="rounded"> </div> <div class="p-2 text-center"> <h1>Exploring Big Historical Data: The Historian’s Macroscope</h1> </div> <hr style="width:60%;"/> <div class="row justify-content-center align-items-center"> <div class="col-8 p-1 text-center"> <div class="list-group"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211030230922/https://www.themacroscope.org/1.0/"> <button type="button" class="list-group-item list-group-item-action my-1 rounded"> First Edition </button> </a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211030230922/https://www.themacroscope.org/2.0/"> <button type="button" class="list-group-item list-group-item-action my-1 rounded"> Second Edition </button> </a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211030230922/mailto:shawn.graham@carleton.ca"> <button type="button" class="list-group-item list-group-item-action my-1 rounded"> Contact </button> </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="p pt-4 px-5"> <div id="welcome" class="section level2"> <h2>Welcome!</h2> <p>Welcome to the companion site for <em>Exploring Big Historical Data: The Historian’s Macroscope</em>, published by Imperial College Press. If you want to buy a copy, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211030230922/http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/p981">you can purchase one for $39.0_0 USD</a>. Feel free to visit our original live-written fully open draft, which is available through <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211030230922/http://web.archive.org/web/20200618171130/http://www.themacroscope.org/?page_id=584">The Internet Archive</a> – and if you like what you see, you can always buy the book! (The draft was originally written using Wordpress + Commentpress; but unfortunately, keeping the various bits and pieces that made that site work, and kept it secure, proved too onerous after several years to keep maintaining. There’s a lesson right there, for digital history. What’s <em>your</em> long term preservation strategy for your digital work?)</p> </div> <div id="first-edition" class="section level2"> <h2>First Edition</h2> <p>For the resources that accompanied the 2015 version, please see the <a href="/web/20211030230922/http://www.themacroscope.org/1.0/">First Edition</a> website. For the discussion of the volume at our book launch at 2015, listen to it <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211030230922/https://soundcloud.com/shawn-graham-60451318/exploring-big-historical-data-the-historians-macroscope-book-launch-carleton-u-audio">here</a></p> </div> <div id="second-edition" class="section level2"> <h2>Second Edition</h2> <p>The second edition, with new co-author <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211030230922/https://www.kim-martin.ca/">Kim Martin</a> is currently being put together. We aim to submit it to the publisher by the spring of 2021. The second edition features new datasets, new code, correction of errors, and expansion of possibilities for what and who digital history can be about. In the meantime, do read Dr. Martin’s piece in <em>The Canadian Historical Review</em> 101(4): 622-650 on ‘Clio, Rewired: Propositions for the Future of Digital History Pedagogy in Canada’. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211030230922/https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/chr-2020-0021">DOI: 10.3138/chr-2020-0021</a>.</p> </div> <div id="postcards" class="section level2"> <h2>Postcards</h2> <p>This current website was made with the static website generator <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211030230922/https://github.com/seankross/postcards">‘Postcards’</a>, a package for R by Sean Kross. It creates a simple one-page website from a static text file. This should prove longer lasting than our former Wordpress setup.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>   <script src="https://web.archive.org/web/20211030230922js_/https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.5.1.slim.min.js" integrity="" crossorigin="anonymous"></script> <script src="https://web.archive.org/web/20211030230922js_/https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/popper.js@1.16.0/dist/umd/popper.min.js" integrity="" crossorigin="anonymous"></script> <script src="https://web.archive.org/web/20211030230922js_/https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.5.0/js/bootstrap.min.js" integrity="" crossorigin="anonymous"></script> </body> </html>

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