V Międzynarodowa Konferencja Naukowa Nauka o informacji (informacja naukowa) w okresie zmian Innowacyjne usługi informacyjne. Wydział Dziennikarstwa, Informacji i Bibliologii Katedra Informatologii, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Warszawa, 15 – 16 maja 2017

1. HISTORIANS PRACTICES IN THE
DIGITAL AGE
Takhtoukh Samia

2. QUESTIONS
 How do historians deal with the challenges of
digital technology?
 How do they benefit from it?

3. INVESTIGATION
 Dissemination of an on-line questionnaire in two
mailing lists (DH, AHCESR)
 Sending e-mail to historians targeted under
Academia social network

4. AXIS OF REFLECTIONS
 Collection of research data
 Analysis / Processing data
 Dissemination of historical knowledge

5. COLLECTION OF RESEARCH DATA
 Search engines were the most used.
28; 31%
32; 36%
6; 7%
23; 26%
Bases des données
Moteurs de recherche
SUDOC
(vide)

6. COLLECTION OF RESEARCH DATA
 Need to return to the print version
34%
66%
N
O

7. COLLECTION OF RESEARCH DATA
 Digitization
 In his daily practice, the historian no longer plans to
work without the help of the digital tools available
for collecting research data

8. COLLECTION OF RESEARCH DATA
 Not all is digitized
Time Resources

9. COLLECTION OF RESEARCH DATA
 All that is digitized is not accessible

10. COLLECTION OF RESEARCH DATA
 Not everything that is digitized is necessarily
accessible
 The historian must develop new skills

11. COLLECTION OF RESEARCH DATA
 All that is accessible is not necessarily
exploitable

12. CONCLUSION

13. CONCLUSION
 Digital humanities must draw attention to the
impact that the methods and theories of the
human sciences should have on the design of
digital media, its valorization and its visibility
on the web

14. PROCESSING DATA
 The use of digital analysis tools
13,75; 14%
38,75; 39%
5; 5%
5; 5%
7,5; 7%
18,75; 19%
7,5; 7%
3,75;
4%
Zotero
Tableur
word
Evernote
Filemaker
base de données
analyse reseau
cartographie

15. PROCESSING DATA
 Problems encountered while using the software:
 Does not meet their need.
 Interface too complex
 Installation and / or configuration problems.
 Manual methods allow them to be more productive.

16. PROCESSING DATA
 The analysis of sources using advanced computer
tools should help researchers not only to confirm
or refine certain hypotheses but also to raise new
questions.
 In order to grasp the opportunities of access to
digitized sources, we must go beyond the simple
use of basic functionalities

17. PROCESSING DATA
 One of the main reasons is that most software
have been designed for the majority of users who
are not historians.
 Involve the historians step by step in the
development of their own tools, and involve them
in the construction of the appropriate digital
infrastructure.

18. PROCESSING DATA
 In the research process all the roles are
complementary and the contributions of this
collaboration could be fruitful.

19. PROCESSING DATA
 Interdisciplinarity

20. PROCESSING DATA
 How to maintain a balance between the various
collaborators?
 What new forms of evaluation of research are
needed?

21. PROCESSING DATA
 What new skills are needed for the researcher?
 What training should be considered?

22. CONCLUSION
 Digital humanities must give themselves the
means to succeed in instrumentation by the
historian community itself in order to
guarantee the inclusion of its standards at
proposed tools

23. DISSEMINATION OF HISTORICAL
KNOWLEDGE
 The use of blogs
70%
30%
N
O

24. DISSEMINATION OF HISTORICAL
KNOWLEDGE
 Depositing articles in free access
49%
51%
N
O

25. DISSEMINATION OF HISTORICAL
KNOWLEDGE
 Reveal the daily life of its activity, its
assumptions, his discoveries, his readings that
represents a real obstacle for the majority of the
historian

26. DISSEMINATION OF HISTORICAL
KNOWLEDGE
 Create a network formed by different
professionals can be a cognitive power

27. DISSEMINATION OF HISTORICAL
KNOWLEDGE
 How to ensure the protection of the intellectual
work of the contributor when unveiling a work
which is under development.

28. CONCLUSIONS
 Digital humanities must draw attention to the
impact that the methods and theories of the
human sciences should have on the design of
digital media, its valorization and its visibility
on the web
 It is necessary to subject computer technology to
the needs of SHS researchers and to their
specificities rather than asking them to submit to
the tool by involving them in design.

29. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!