Creating resourceful, flexible, and open-ended digital historical data systems;
Combining archives and computational methods to invent new ways of producing historical knowledge;
Connecting hybrid 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.