Phrasing history: Selecting sources in digital repositories

Historical Methods

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 220-229

  Huistra, Hieke ^a   Mellink, Bram ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Digital humanities; digitization; full text search; keyword search; source selection

Indexed keywords

DATABASE; HISTORICAL RECORD; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84988711055     PISSN: 01615440     EISSN: 19401906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01615440.2016.1205964     Document Type: Article

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