Confronted by people happy to define a point on the earth's surface as three simple numbers, >and to claim that it was always so, was a shock. This is not to say that the archaeologists >were being naïve, far from it, but that having been trained up as a text historian - >essentially a textual critic - in those meetings I came face to face with the existence of a >different kind of knowing.
Historians must use the interdisciplinary knowledge available, while also offering the knowledge they have; it will make for a better approach to digital work because you will see it from all sorts of angle, able to break it apart better.
Hitchcock, Tim. "Big Data for Dead People: Digital Readings and the Conundrums of Positivism." December 9, 2013.