I like the author's use of the word radical. I think few people realize that history making is a political act, and that transparency/open access is ~democratizing~ power in an interesting way.

The issue of diversity in DH is definitely one that can be assessed through the lens of gender, although class, race/place-of origin would also be interesting to consider. How do we bring in more people into the ~digital revolution~? This is where DH can start to interact with other disciplines. For instance, what happens to a nation's DH when it's been enduring a war that has destroyed its national archives? How does globalization create/define the boundaries of what it means to participate in the project of ~history making~? This can go on and on.

I like the idea of mixing multiple databases & ways of thinking about research to come to new conclusions!

This is what I am most curious about, in all honesty. While reading the intro/workbook of the course, I was excited about the fact that I might be able to create a final project surrounding some interests of mine (IE the history of Congolese music). However, there are no online databases that I know of fitting the spreadsheet/whatever-else-is-used model for digital history research. The reason I've called my blog "cracks in the net" is because I'm more interested in the parts of history that are lost/not studied in this new wave of historical research (clever, I know!).

I am pleased to see that access to these patterns did not only confirm what he had already known, but also provided with new research questions.

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