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Sheffield Digital Humanities Congress, 7-9-2012

The Problem of Citation in the Digital Humanities Jonathan Blaney Institute of Historical Research. Sheffield Digital Humanities Congress, 7-9-2012. http://youtu.be/cWhh9Xubwe4. “...if we also learn to live by the golden rule, which Jesus Christ taught us: Love thy neighbour as thyself .”

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Sheffield Digital Humanities Congress, 7-9-2012

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  1. The Problem of Citation in the Digital HumanitiesJonathan BlaneyInstitute of Historical Research Sheffield Digital Humanities Congress, 7-9-2012

  2. http://youtu.be/cWhh9Xubwe4

  3. “...if we also learn to live by the golden rule, which Jesus Christ taught us: Love thy neighbour as thyself.” http://youtu.be/cWhh9Xubwe4 4’25”-4’34”

  4. Matthew 19.19 Matthew 23.39 Mark 12.31-33 Luke 10.27

  5. www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/uniqueness_sanders.pdf

  6. TIDSR Toolkit for the Impact of Digitised Scholarly Resources http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2009/05/18/you-can-now-measure-the-impact-of-your-online-resource/

  7. Aggregate results for 2008-9 • Scopus 37 • Google Scholar 43 • Common to both 9 • Page views 31,367,021

  8. “Is there any way of obtaining accurate page numbers for parts of the sources? Although the whole site is fantastic for research, it makes citation very difficult”

  9. “If a book is available in more than one format, cite the version you consulted. For books consulted online list a URL...” http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html

  10. Citations are too long. What’s the point? Isn’t it like citing which library I got the book from?

  11. Opacity 100 years’ time

  12. PRO, E/135/2/57, ff. 47v-8

  13. MS Vitellius A.XV, f.132

  14. “I am trying to find the source of ‘Trans. Hist. Soc. (NewSer.), xiv, 241’”

  15. 2001.1048 2003/2426 2006.690.4

  16. “Even a brief exercise in comparison reveals a staggering range of divergent practices under history’s apparently stable surface.” Anthony Grafton, The Footnote: A Curious History, Faber and Faber, 1997, p7

  17. “Like the diplomas on a dentist’s wall, footnotes prove that historians are ‘good enough’ practitioners to be consulted and recommended.” Ibid, p22

  18. Past and PresentHistory Workshop JournalGender and History Economic History Review History Social History Contemporary British HistoryEnglish Historical Review Historical Research Cold War History Twentieth Century British History Northern History

  19. www.british-history.ac.uk/VCH/Oxon15/Clanfield-religious

  20. VCH Oxon, volume 15, p.139

  21. www.british-history.ac.uk/VCH/Oxon15/Clanfeild-religious

  22. VCH Oxon, volume 15, p.139 VCH Oxon, volume 5, p.139 VCH Oxon, volume 15, p.319

  23. http://www.royal.gov.uk/ImagesandBroadcasts/TheQueensChristmasBroadcasts/ChristmasBroadcasts/ChristmasBroadcast1989.aspxhttp://www.royal.gov.uk/ImagesandBroadcasts/TheQueensChristmasBroadcasts/ChristmasBroadcasts/ChristmasBroadcast1989.aspx

  24. jonathan.blaney@sas.ac.uk IHR Digital www.history.ac.uk/digital & @ihr_history Reports, using TIDSR: http://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/2819/ http://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/2957/

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