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.
"To use Machiavelli's terms, neither virtu nor fortuna can be dealt with except by a narrative, or even an anecdote, since the first is an individual attribute and the second a happy or unhappy accident."
- Lawrence Stone, 1979
"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