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"All digital history ends in 1922."

Fascinating graph of usage of 'attention' in 4 mil. volumes divided by LC Classification #thatcampks

RT @amandafrench: Kansas @IDRH_KU puts on a great event. Looking forward to the speakers -- first up is @benmschmidt. #thatcampks

RT @amandafrench: Kansas @IDRH_KU puts on a great event. Looking forward to the speakers -- first up is @benmschmidt. #thatcampks

.@benmschmidt demoing Bookworm, a tool like Ngram Viewer that allow you to build own corpus #thatcampks

Also a good point: dirty OCR etc makes data problematic but by no means useless, just like documents diplomatic historians use. #thatcampks

OCR is not important: researchers have always been able to work against biases

"Digital sources contribute knowledge beyond individuals," says @benmschmidt, & we need to know how to read them. #thatcampks

Big data in the humanities is already here w/ search engines like JSTOR & Google Books, which traditional humanists use. #thatcampks

In twenty years, not all humanists will be digital humanists, says @benmschmidt. Not all resources are digital, for one thing. #thatcampks

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