Creating La Vie littéraire au Québec in the Digital Era
Presenting the work that, for nearly thirty years, our team conducted on “La vie littéraire au Québec” (a series of volumes published on literary life in Quebec) is an opportunity to observe the practical aspects of the introduction of digital tools in a history of literature/cultural history resear...
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Biens Symboliques / Symbolic Goods
2021
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| Online Zugang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Zusammenfassung: | Presenting the work that, for nearly thirty years, our team conducted on “La vie littéraire au Québec” (a series of volumes published on literary life in Quebec) is an opportunity to observe the practical aspects of the introduction of digital tools in a history of literature/cultural history research. In this paper, we discuss the modalities of the digital turn undertaken five years ago in our team as we emphasize the epistemological bases of our project and the resulting structure of the books. This turn was part of the modernization of the team’s tools and working methods, of course, but we want to focus here on the behind-the-scene and self-reflexive aspects of this digital shift, through the examination of three of its most qualitative results. The first one is the improvement of the observations that digitalization allows, thanks to the increasing quantity of material that it is now possible to consider and study; the second one is the possibility to initiate an efficient collective upstream work that enables deeper analyses; the third one is the ability to store, transfer and recycle data, which participates in a crucial and often under-estimated way in the advancement of scientific work. We finally hope that our discussion will contribute to a better understanding of what is at stake with digital data – far from a genuine digital “revolution,” it seems to us that digitalization in the history of literature is just the next step in the continuity of the Annales School. |
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