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From data to wisdom: Humanities research and online content
The widespread availability of online data has changed scholarship in many fields, and in scientific research the entire paradigm is changing, with experiments now being conducted before rather than after hypotheses are proposed, simply because of the massive amounts of available data. But what is likely to happen in the humanities? So far, much of the work on 'cyberinfrastructure' in the humanities has been about accumulating data. This is an essential part of the process but one would like to see more research on the resulting files.