2021. Lead author of Doing Digital History
A practical introduction to digital history with a focus on working with textual data at scale, but also covering the historiography of digital history, the life-cycle of digital project, research data management with a heavy focus on Git, and data visualisation using charts and maps. Authors: Jonathan Blaney, Sarah Milligan, Marty Steer, Jane Winters. Print edition from MUP. The files for the exercises are on the book's GitHub repository.
2017. Introduction to the Principles of Linked Data
Programming Historian, freely available. An introduction to the concepts of Linked Open Data written for historians and assuming no technical knowledge. Author: Jonathan Blaney.
2017. ‘A culture of non-citation’
Digital Humanities Quarterly, freely available. A discussion of the culture of digital citation with particular focus on two high-profile digital projects and a survey of journal citation practice. Authors: Jonathan Blaney, Judith Siefring.
2015. Semantic data for historians
Institutional research training portal, available with a free account. Training materials for historians to learn how to work with semantic data. Author: Jonathan Blaney.
2012. ‘The problem of citation in the digital humanities’
Proceedings of the Digital Humanities Congress, freely available. A discussion of the arguments against digital citation, such as link rot, and an assertion that, done correctly, digital citation can be secure as well as open and transparent about research methodology. Author: Jonathan Blaney.
2010. 'The British History Online digital library: a model for sustainability?'
Bulletin de la Commission Royale d'Histoire/Handelingen van de Koninklijke Commissie voor Geschiedenis, 176.1, 95-106. A consideration of the successful funding model of British History Online which, unusually for an academic digital project, is self-sustaining and even able to reinvest income into digitisation of new material. Authors: Jonathan Blaney, Jane Winters.
2009. Review of The Virtual Representation of the Past
Reviews in History, freely available. Long-form review of a collective volume on digital history. Author: Jonathan Blaney.
1999. Review of 'Ten Oxford minidictionaries'
in International Journal of Lexicography, 12, 239-41. Authors: Simon Beattie, Holger Becker, Jonathan Blaney, Agapios Oikonomidis.
1999. Review of The Oxford Thesaurus in A-Z Form
in International Journal of Lexicography, 12, 257-61. Authors: Tom McArthur, Holger Becker, Jonathan Blaney.