Digital archives contribute to Big data. Combining social network analysis, coincidence analysis, data reduction, and visual analytics leads to better characterize topics over time, publishers' main themes and best authors of all times, according to the British newspaper The Guardian and from the 3 million records of the British National Bibliography.
@article{arxiv.1802.09219,
title = {Digital Archives as Big Data},
author = {Luis Martinez-Uribe},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.09219},
year = {2018}
}