Has the Historian’s craft gone digital? Some observations from France (article)

"Has the Historian’s craft gone digital? Some observations from France" (avec Franziska Heimburger), dans Elisa Grandi, Deborah Paci et Émilien Ruiz (dir.), "Digital History. La storia nell'era dell'accesso", Diacronie. Studi di storia contemporanea, n°10, 2012 : http://www.studistorici.com/2012/06/29/heimburger-ruiz_numero_10/

Since the end of the 1980s the historiographical context has changed considerably, in France quantitative history is no longer fashionable (with some exceptions) and IT tools for historians have grown in number. Over the course of the last ten years, we have reached the “digital age” and computers as well as resources available via the Internet have become indispensable tools for all researchers. Be it for the stage of documentation or for actual writing, we are now living and working in a context where historians can no longer completely refuse all IT tools.