During the academic year 2021–2022 the “Territorial Identities and Development Research Center” at the Faculty of Geography and Geology, Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca hosted a series of lectures dedicated to qualitative research methods in social sciences and humanities.
Within this framework, on 23 February 2022, Vlad Popovici and Angela Lumezeanu gave a talk on Structured data in qualitative historical research. The central idea of the presentation was that properly re-structured information from historical sources opens the way for a better understanding of the past and for more intricate historical conclusions even before undergoing statistical analysis, thus being closer to the average historian’s means and perspective and functioning as a welcome support for and complement to qualitative methods.
