digital layers digital archives
The current collection of digital material that forms the basis for most of our research is >composed of the maudlin leavings of rich dead white men (and some rich dead white women). >Until we get around to including the non-cannonical, the non-Western, the non-textual and the >non-elite, we are unlikely to be very surprised.
The digital reflects traditional practice. It is easy to become enamoured by digital data, simply if by the interface or what it means to have big historical data across the web in a variety of formats. But these sources can reproduce the same narratives, leading to little new insight.
Hitchcock, Tim. "Big Data for Dead People: Digital Readings and the Conundrums of Positivism." December 9, 2013.