Believe it or not, the 1990s are history. As historians turn to
study this period and beyond, they will encounter a historical
record that is radically different from what has ever existed
before. Old websites, social media, blogs, photographs, and videos
are all part of the massive quantities of digital information that
technologists, librarians, archivists, and organizations such as
the Internet Archive have been collecting for the past three
decades. In History in the Age of Abundance? Ian Milligan argues
that web-based historical sources and their archives present
extraordinary opportunities as well as daunting technical and
ethical challenges for historians. Through case studies, he
outlines the approaches, methods, tools, and search functions that
can help a historian turn web documents into historical sources. He
also considers the implications of the size and scale of digital
sources, which amount to more information than historians have ever
had at their fingertips, and many of which are by and about people
who have traditionally been absent from the historical record.
Scrutinizing the concept of the web and the mechanics of its
archives, Milligan explains how these new media challenge, reshape,
and enrich both the historical profession and the historical
record. A wake-up call for historians of the twenty-first century,
History in the Age of Abundance? is an essential introduction to
the way web archives work, what possibilities they open up, what
risks they entail, and what the shift to digital information means
for historians, their professional training and organization, and
society as a whole.
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