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Historiography’s Two Voices: Data Infrastructure and History at Scale in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB)

Warren

Christopher N.

22 11 2018

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On its release in 2004, theOxford Dictionary of National Biographywas called“the greatest book ever” and “a more enthralling read than all the novels everentered for the Booker Prize put together.” The tabloidThe Daily Mail, wherethese giddy pronouncements appeared, is not known for understatement, butmore cautious academic researchers have long held theODNBin similarly highesteem.

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