Digital Humanities, Modeling Life Histories and Research Computing

Opening slide: the 2008 workshop web page faint behind the title 'Digital Humanities, Research Computing, Modeling Life Histories and this workshop', Peter Bol.
Slide 'The Digital Humanities and Research Computing': data in quantity, access and applications, content as scholarly infrastructure, persistence, publishing.
Slide, conceptual leaps: from images of maps to GIS, from searching to text-mining, from flat files to relational databases.
Slide 'Modeling Life Histories', with the three subheadings biography, prosopography and social network analysis.
Slide defining prosopography in English and Chinese, quoting L. Stone: establish a universe of actors, ask uniform questions, then juxtapose and test variables.
Slide 'The goals of the workshop': what approaches model lives, when life-history writing changed, which sources come first, how databases can interoperate.