Creating resourceful, flexible, and open-ended historical data systems;
Combining archives and computational methods to invent new ways of generating historical knowledge;
Connecting historical knowledge to various academic disciplines and beyond.
"Today's academic life seems to be more in favor of many short-term research projects which need to be published quickly, rather than of projects requiring teams of co-workers collaborating for decades. ... It would be much better to build up results one centimetre at a time on a base of one kilometre wide, than to build up a kilometre of research on a one-centimetre base."
- Roberto Busa, 1980
Source: Arkhiv Vneshnei Politiki Rossiiskoi Federatsii (Foreign Policy Archives of the Russian Federation), f. 0102, op. 16, p. 24, d. 6, ll. 59–60.
This is an excerpt from my doctoral dissertation (UCLA, 2022) and a main topic for my first book project in progress.