Simulations for historical research ?
As part of our work in the project ModelSEN, Socio-epistemic networks: Modelling Historical Knowledge Processes, we are also interested in the Why! question. Instead of analyzing corpora or archives from the past, we would like to understand the motivation of actors in their time or how archives that we see now came into being, e.g. by controlled deletion of material in relation to power, or different likelyhoods of survival for data depending on gender....