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
The always-sharp Trevor Owens:
Discovery and Justification are Different: Notes on Science-ing the Humanities
which builds upon one of the suggested NUDHL readings from our last gathering:
Frederick W. Gibbs and Trevor J. Owens, “The Hermeneutics of Data and Historical Writing (Spring 2012 version),” in Writing History in the Digital Age: A Born-Digital, Open-Review Volume, ed. Jack Dougherty and Kristen Nawrotzki, http://writinghistory.trincoll.edu/data/gibbs-owens-2012-spring/.