Information infrastructures and historical research: A framework useful for professional and amateur historians
通过信息基础设施视角，比较专业与业余历史学家（尤其是家族史研究者）在互联网时代前后的研究方法异同，发现两者相似性大于差异，并探讨如何促进对话以实现互利。
In this article we delve into the similarities as well as differences in the research methods of professional and amateur historians via the lens of information infrastructures. We pay special attention to the methods of amateur family historians before and after the arrival of the Internet identifying what changed as well as what did not, offering historical perspective. We also compare their methods with those of professional historians. We find that to a surprising degree research methods used by professional and amateur historians are more alike than different. We discuss ways of bring professional and amateur historians into conversation with each other, and explain how this would be to their mutual benefit.