Da passt gleich ein anderer Artikel dazu, den ich heute gelesen habe: "The weather behind the words. New methodologies for integrated hydrometeorological reconstruction through documentary sources" von Salvador Gil-Guirado, Juan José Gómez-Navarro und Juan Pedro Montávez (Preprint für die Zeitschrift "Climate of the Past"). Ihr Ansatz ist, aus der Menge an Papier, auf dem ein meteorologisches Ereignis in städtischen Akten/Chroniken beschrieben wurde, auf dessen Schwere zu schließen: "It analyses historical documents and takes advantage of all sort of meteorological information available in the written documents, not only the most severe events, thereby overcoming the most prominent bottleneck of former approaches. COST relies on the fact that the use paper had a high cost, so its use to describe meteorological conditions is hypothesized to be proportional to the impact they had on society".
(*) James Baker: "A history of History through the lens of our digital present, the traditions that shape and constrain data driven historical research, and what librarians can do about it". In: John W. White / Heather Gilbert (Hrsg.): Laying the Foundation: Digital Humanities in Academic Libraries. Purdue University Press 2016 (Charleston Insights in Library, Archival, and Information Sciences)
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