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  • Will historians of the future be able to study Twitter?

    Over the last year or so, the IHR Digital History seminar has become increasingly web-focussed, which is of course of interest to me (if not necessarily to everyone.) Last week we had an excellent paper from Jack Grieve of Aston University on the tracking of newly emerging words as they appeared in large corpora of…

  • What use is a personal tweet archive ?

    A little while ago I wrote a post about the need to plan for archiving the digital “papers” of historians. In that post I talked about research data (what we used to called “notes”); about the systems that form the bridge between that data and the writing process; and about written outputs themselves, and their…