Tiago Luís Gil

How to Make a Database in Historical Studies (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
• Seitenzahl: 93
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783030782412
• Artikelnr.: 62329469

Autorenporträt

Tiago Gil is Associate Professor of History of the Americas in the Department of History at University of Brasilia, Brazil and coordinator of the Digital Atlas of Portuguese America. He holds a B.A. in History from Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (2000) and M.A. (2003) and Ph.D. (2009) in Social History from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He is the author of "Infiéis transgressores: elites e contrabandistas nas fronteiras do Rio Grande e do Rio Pardo, 1760-1810" (Nationan Archive, Brazil, 2007), which won the 2005 Research Prize of the Brazilian National Archive. He also authored "Storici e informatica: l'uso dei database (1968-2013)" Memoria e ricerca, n. 50, (Sep./Oct. 2015), among other articles, chapters and books. His research interests are Digital History, Economic History and, of course, databases.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Some theoretical and methodical questions.- Chapter 3. Some computer issues.- Chapter 4. Research Engineering.- Chapter 5. Constructing databases: some concrete examples.- Chapter 6. Conclusion.