Databases in Historical Research: Theory, Methods and Applications

ISBN-13: 9780333568446 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 347 str.

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Opis

This textbook builds knowledge progressively and sympathetically, from first principles to advanced topics. The authors explain how to take a project from the specification stage to completion, and offer guidance on choice of approach, techniques, hardware and software. Key ideas are presented in a readily understandable form through the use of diagrams and summary boxes, and the text is brought to life through the use of case studies. An ideal handbook for the undergraduate, postgraduate and professional historian embarking on a dissertation or historical research.

Spis treści

List of Figures.- Preface.- Databases in Historical Research.- Database Concepts and Terminology.- Database Management Software.- The Database Project Life-Cycle.- Database Design and Implementation Information Retrieval Source-Oriented.- Database Systems Coding and Record Linkage.- Conclusion: Databases and the Future of Historical Computing.- Bibliography.- Glossary.- Index.

O autorze

CHARLES HARVEY is Professor of Business History and Management, and Director of the School of Management, at Royal Holloway, University of London.

JON PRESS is Professor of History and Dean of Humanities at Bath College of Higher Education.