Historical research has experienced a paradigm shift with the development of digital techniques.At the same time, the creation and dissemination of more and more historical databases pose challenges to scholars in terms of identifying appropriate methods to analyse such...MORE Historical research has experienced a paradigm shift with the development of digital techniques.At the same time, the creation and dissemination of more and more historical databases pose challenges to scholars in terms of identifying appropriate methods to analyse such data.Taking the construction and analysis of a data...