We need to rejuvenate three traditional practices: first, a source criticism that explains what’s in the data; second, a hermeneutics that lets us read data into a meaningful form; and third, situated argumentation that ties the data in to live questions in their field.

— Ben Schmidt, “Reading digital sources: a case study in ship’s logs,” http://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2012/11/reading-digital-sources-case-study-in.html