AUTHOR=Kaplan Frédéric , di Lenardo Isabella 
  
TITLE=Big Data of the Past
  
JOURNAL=Frontiers in Digital Humanities
  
VOLUME=Volume 4 - 2017
  
YEAR=2017
  
URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/digital-humanities/articles/10.3389/fdigh.2017.00012
  
DOI=10.3389/fdigh.2017.00012
  
ISSN=2297-2668
  
ABSTRACT=Big Data is not a new phenomenon. History is punctuated by regimes of data acceleration, characterized by feelings of information overload, social transformation and invention of new technologies. During these moments, private organizations, administrative powers and sometimes isolated individuals have produced important datasets organized following a - now often superseded but nevertheless - coherent logic. To be translated into relevant sources of information about our past, these document series need to be redocumented using contemporary paradigms. The intellectual, methodological and technological challenges linked with this translation process are the central subject of this article.