Textbooks and teaching aids
Information technology for
humanities. Teaching aids/
edited by V.L. Akimov, N.M. Arsentev, L.I. Borodkin, and I.M. Garskova.
Moscow-Saransk, 1998. 215 pages
Annotation
The teaching aids were founded as a
result of the collaboration between the historical information science
laboratory, and the source studies department, Lomonosov Moscow State
University, and the department of economic history and information
technology of the history faculty, Ogareva Mordovskii State University.
The experience serving as the foundation for writing the majority
of these books is the teaching of the courses “information science”
in Moscow State University’s history faculty and “information science and information
science technology” for students taught to be specialists in history and regional
studies in Mordovskii State University.
The main object of the present teaching aids are, descriptions of
the fundamental stages of socio-humanitarian research, and conductivity
with the use of modern historical science technologies.
The stated principles for building this base are as followed:
historical science research, information defense, using electronic tables,
technological multimedia, computer cartography, and net technology
(internet).
E.B. Belova, L.I. Borodkin, I.M. Garskova,
Ò.F. Izmestieva, V.V. Lazarev, A.I. Tihonov
Computerized statistical analysis for historians.
Teaching aids/ edited by L.I. Borodkin and I.M. Garskova.
Moscow. 1999. – 187pgs.
Annotation
The aids are methodical materials for
the second half of the course “information
sciences and mathematics,” which is taken by students of Lomonosov Moscow State
University’s history faculty. The
teaching aids provide students with the fundamentals in understanding the
historical information science, as well as provide an introduction to
methods of mathematical statistics and analyzing results, drawn from the
vast wealth of experience in applying these methods in historical
research. A great amount of
attention is given to the realization of these methods on the computer
(using the packet program “statistica”).
Each exposition is lavishly illustrated with multiple examples,
based on materials taken from historical sources and on results of
research conducted by historian-quantifiers.
Further, every chapter of the teaching aids contains a list of
questions and exercises. The
individual value of the works is represented by their extensive appendix,
which contains forty tables and their statistical results, which may be
used for individual work by students or given as assignments.
The teaching aids are not specifically oriented towards students
and historians, but also to all interested in the application of
statistical methods in historical research.