Нistoriographical characteristics of the aggregated data published on the official Facebook pages of the Lviv Regional State Administration

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of a separate class of historical sources — aggregated data and the format of their presentation in the Ukrainian segment of the Internet, in particular, on the official Facebook pages of the authorities and administration of Ukraine. The groups, types, and kinds of aggregated data that can be used in the research activities of the historian, if for some reason such information is not available on other resources, were described. The question of qualitative characteristics of different types of aggregated data is considered, namely: significance, validity, relevance. An assessment is given of the studied array of summary data of such types as departmental statistics, expert data, the content of publications, information about events available on the official Facebook pages of the Lviv Regional State Administration (LRSA), and analysis of their historiographical characteristics.