Mapping the Invisible Intermediaries: Historians’ Craft and Digital Search

History’s digitized turn—our increasing access to secondary and primary sources via full-text web-based search—massively expands our ability to discover relevant sources.. For the first time, we can find without knowing in advance where to look. But what the experience of disintermediated discovery masks is the extent to which intermediaries—source selection protocols, institutional priorities, search algorithms, and more—are dictating what we find. What kinds of conversations among scholars can spur critical thinking about digital discovery? What kind of alliances (with library professionals, digital publishers, web designers, and more) are necessary to build information ecosystems whose intermediations are themselves discoverable?