"We're all digital historians now": databases, discovery & the ends of history

Advancing Research Communication & Scholarship
Philadelphia ~ April 27, 2015

Seth Denbo
Director of Scholarly Communication & Digital Initiatives
American Historical Association
sdenbo@historians.org
@seth_denbo

King's Library, British Library (https://www.flickr.com/photos/nics_events/2393709295/)

Occurrence of "happiness" in the Google Books British English corpus (2009)

Google Ngram chart of "happiness" vs. "happinefs showing OCR error caused by use of long s

"Discovery is perhaps the stage of scholarship that’s seen the largest change"

Steven Lubar
(https://stevenlubar.wordpress.com/2012/07/22/scholarly-research-and-writing-in-the-digital-age/)

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