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  1. Jul 2017
    1. Paper Machines works with the individual researcher’s own hand-tailored collections of texts, whether mined from digital sources like newspapers and chat rooms or scanned and saved through optical character recognition (OCR) from paper sources like government archives. It can allow a class, a group of scholars, or scholars and activists together to collect and share archives of texts.

      Ladies and gentlemen, the future of history

    1. They also draw upon a rich heritage of computational history, stretching back to early cutting-edge work done with censuses in the 1960s.

      Until I worked in a research library I didn't understand how important/useful censuses are! Beyond that, the digitization of them (at least from what I know of the Canadian ones) allows anyone with access to the internet to follow the movement and growth of families.