This document appears to be a series of tweets and slides from a keynote presentation by James Baker on ditching the digital in digital history. The presentation outlines several stories, including Baker's experience with digital history mentorship, writing a book on satirical prints in England, developing the Library Carpentry training program, discussing issues with digital sources and OCR from Peter de Bolla's work, and embedding digital history into undergraduate history courses at Sussex. The overall document seems to provide personal anecdotes and examples rather than focusing on the latest topics in digital humanities or Baker's origin story.

1. Ditching the
Digital
James Baker, Lecturer in Digital
History
@j_w_baker
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2. @j_w_baker
Of course we do need ‘digital’
now not least because..
Loss continues (Rosenzweig, 2003)
The paper archive is ~ dead/dying
Informatics folks are doing ‘our’ job
..but it can be unhelpful

3. @j_w_baker
This keynote isn’t..
My origin story

4. This keynote isn’t..
What you need to know
@j_w_baker

5. This keynote isn’t..
On the latest DH kerfuffle
@j_w_baker

6. “Advocates position Digital Humanities as a corrective to the
"traditional" and outmoded approaches to literary study that
supposedly plague English department”
Allington, Brouilette, Golumbia, ‘Neoliberal Tools (and Archives): A Political
History of Digital Humanities’, LA Review of Books, 1 May 2016
VS
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7. This keynote isn’t..
Prospecting
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8. By Zachi Evenor,Günther Noack [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
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9. This keynote is..
Some stories
@j_w_baker

10. digitalhistorymentorship.wordpress.com
Story 1: Mentorship
@j_w_baker

11. The Business of Satirical Prints in Late-Georgian
England (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
Story 2: My Book
@j_w_baker

12. 1794 1808
Story 2: My Book
@j_w_baker

13. Story 3: Born Digital
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14. librarycarpentry.github.io
James Baker, Caitlin Moore, Ernesto Priego, Raquel Alegre, Jez Cope, Ludi Price,
Owen Stephens, Daniel van Strien, Greg Wilson, 'Library Carpentry: software skills
training for library professionals' (forthcoming 2016)
Story 4: Library Carpentry
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15. Story 5: Peter de Bolla
“The extraction of these data from the archive is beset with problems that will
be familiar to anyone who has explored ECCO. As is now well
known, the optical character recognition (OCR) software
used by Gale, the publisher, compromises the reliability
of the data extracted. Although this is regrettable, the following study
is intended to be exemplar of a new kind of conceptual history. When in
the not-too-distant future the glitches in the software no
longer cause these problems, the compilation of more
secure data will be possible. But since I doubt that there will be
significant changes to the profiles I have created for the concepts studied
here, the revision of precise numerical values will be unlikely to lead to
different conclusions. I am, nevertheless, confident that at the time of
carrying out the searches (for the most part in 2009-2010) all of the data are
presented as accurate”
Peter de Bolla, The architecture of concepts the historical formation of human rights (2013)
My blog: cradledincaricature.com/2016/04/06/interfaces-between-us-and-our-digital-sources/
@j_w_baker

16. Story 6: Teaching at Sussex
Embedding Digital History
into Year 1-3 undergraduate
History courses
@j_w_baker

17. Ditching the
Digital
James Baker, Lecturer in Digital
History
@j_w_baker
slideshare.net/drjwbaker
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