Incorporating the Sensemaking Loop from Intelligence Analysis into Bespoke Tools for Digital History.
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The discipline of intelligence analysis, like the discipline of history, requires its practitioners to create interpretations supported by large collections of sources that may be incomplete, inconsistent, ambiguous, and occasionally deceptive. Here I argue that models of the intelligence analyst’s research process, structured techniques for qualitative reasoning under uncertainty, and software for incorporating human ‘sensemaking’ can all be adapted for use by historians. In doing so, I provide a sustained example of digital historical research using a large online collection of historical sources, the Old Bailey Online.
Source: Historia y grafía
Author: William Turkel
Institution: Western University
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4406173935