What Will We Do with All That Data?

The essays in this forum explore the potentials and pitfalls of computational approaches to periodical studies. Moving beyond the medium of digitization, our "Computational Periodicals " forum celebrates the com-putational opportunities of technical processes like term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF), digital curation tools such as Omeka, and the metadata resources of repositories like Proquest. The introductory essay to this forum highlights important questions guiding the forum by inviting our re-flection on the ethical implications for periodical research in the digital age.