Comments on: Uta Hinrichs, Trading Consequences

By: Georgina Rannard

Georgina Rannard — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 18:39:25 +0000

Hi Uta,
This is an amazing resource, I’m so pleased I have been introduced to it. I’ve already told at least five people about it today!
Just a quick question – I was wondering if you could point to any examples of work that have come directly from the database? Ie. any articles or projects that have been based (even partly) on using the database to answer historical questions? If you had time to point to any, it would be interesting to see how the materials have been used.
Looking forward to hearing more about it on Monday,
Georgina

By: Ananieva & Haaser

Ananieva & Haaser — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 17:41:29 +0000

Dear Uta,
congratulations to your fascinating project of Trading Consequences. Anna and I agree with Konrad that it is a great resource. Especially in view of our Tuebingen project which not only investigates transnational flows of media news but also those of goods. Our interest focuses chiefly on items designed for the use of the so-called elegant world. Just for fun I tested a search for “cashmere shawls” this morning.
Of course the results would be more valuable to us if the sources were not confined to English data, but included other languages (in our case German, Russian, Hungarian, and Czech) as well. Maybe we should discuss the possibilities of overcoming language barriers while dealing with transnational history tools?
Rolf

By: K. M. Lawson

K. M. Lawson — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 12:05:15 +0000

Trading Consequences is a wonderful and rich resource. I wrote a bit about the project to introduce it to the readers of ProfHacker at the Chronicle of Higher Education (http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/exploring-trading-consequences/56415) back in April and look forward to use discussing it at the workshop!