...big data is using one of the controlling metaphors of 20th-century science, 'code >breaking' and applying it to a field that has hitherto resisted the siren call of analytical >positivism.
Open access for historians can fall into this same issue since they assume it is a matter of sharing everything; no, there is an art.
Hitchcock, Tim. "Big Data for Dead People: Digital Readings and the Conundrums of Positivism." December 9, 2013.