A Life in the Trenches? The Use of Operation War Diary and Crowdsourcing Methods to Provide an Understanding of the British Army’s Day-to-Day Life on the Western Front
A Life in the Trenches? The Use of Operation War Diary and Crowdsourcing Methods to Provide an Understanding of the British Army’s Day-to-Day Life on the Western Front
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战壕里的生活？利用战争日记和众包方法来了解英国陆军在西线的日常生活
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2016
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R. Grayson
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R. Grayson
2014年启动的“战争日记行动”是一个众包项目，其中“公民历史学家”标记第一次世界大战英国陆军西线战争日记，以创建数据进行分析。本文讨论了该项目中使用的方法，然后分析了（在战争期间）六个英国远征军步兵师（1-6）和前两个骑兵师（1-2）抵达法国的数据。它强调了数据在诸如在前线和/或战斗中花费的时间等问题上的用途，步兵营的时间占47%，炮兵占62%，骑兵占20%。在46%，炮兵日涉及一些战斗的两倍以上的步兵的20%。本文还强调了进一步的研究问题和方法，可以使用众包方法编译更完整的数据集。
Operation War Diary, launched in 2014, is a crowdsourcing project in which ‘Citizen Historians’ tag First World War British Army Western Front war diaries to create data for analysis. This article discusses the methodology used in the project and then analyses (for the duration of the war) data for the six original British Expeditionary Force infantry divisions (1-6) and the first two cavalry divisions (1-2) to arrive in France. It highlights uses of the data on issues such as how much time was spent at the front and/or fighting, which appears to be 47% for infantry battalions, 62% for the artillery and 20% for the cavalry. At 46%, artillery days involving some fighting were more than twice the infantry’s at 20%. The article also highlights further research questions and ways in which fuller datasets could be compiled using crowdsourcing methods.