Jean Bauer, 'Fielding History', in Writing History in the Digital Age, edited by Jack Dougherty and Kristen Nawrotzki (2011).

Pat Hudson, History by Numbers: An Introduction to Quantitative Approaches (2000), especially chapter 9 on software and computerizing quantitative history.

Stephen Ramsay, 'Databases', in A Companion to Digital Humanities, edited by Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth (2004).