History and Information Technology: Some Implications for the Local Historian
Author(s)
Jordan, Spencer
Abstract
Discusses how computers impacted the historical discipline up until the 1990’s when they were employed essentially as just another tool and incorporated into already tested methodologies and practices. With increasing processing power, computers have since altered fundamentally the way knowledge is stored and distributed throughout society, raising new issues of digital objects’ readability (given that operating systems become obsolete) and authenticity and the cost and accuracy of digital preservation.
