p a s t, p r e s e n t a n d f u t u r e o f h i s t o r i c a l i n f o r m at i o n s c i e n c e 1 This report is also published in the journal Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung, Vol. 29 (2004), No. 2. 2 n e t h e r l a n d s i n s t i t u t e f o r s c i e n t i f i c i n f o r m at i o n royal netherlands academy of arts and sciences Past, present and future of historical information science onno boonstr a, leen breure and peter doorn amsterdam, 2004 3 © 2004 niwi-knaw No part of