DH101 2013/2014 course 3 - Panoramic intensifcation, narrative crise and introduction to the Venice Time Machine

Digital Humanities 101 - 2013/2014 - Course 3
Digital Humanities Laboratory
Frederic Kaplan
frederic.kaplan@epﬂ.ch

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Digital Humanities 101 - 2013/2014 - Course 3 | 2013 2
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Semester 1 : Content of each course
•19.09 Introduction to the course / Live Tweeting and Collective note taking
•25.09 Introduction to Digital Humanities / Wordpress / First assignment
•2.10 Introduction to the Venice Time Machine project / Zotero
•9.10 No course
•16.10 Logistics of massive digitization / Digitization techniques / Photogrammetry /
Deadline ﬁrst assignment
•23.10 Transcription / XML / Presentation of projects
•30.10 Pattern recognition / OCR / Deadline peer-reviewing of ﬁrst assignment
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Semester 1 : Content of each course
•6.11 Semantic modelling / RDF
•13.11 Historical Geographical Information Systems / Deadline Project selection
•20.11 Procedural modelling / City Engine
•27.11 Crowdsourcing / Wikipedia
•4.12 Group work on the projects
•11.12 New narrations and museographic experiences / Deadline Projet blog
•18.12 Oral exam / Presentation of projects
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Structure of today's course
•A short introduction to Zotero
•A long introduction to the Venice Time Machine
•Why do we need a Venice Time Machine ? Because we are living in a Big Now
• Panoramic intensiﬁcation
• Narrative crisis
•What is the Venice Time Machine ?
• The idea
• The spinal cord
• The multidimensional case studies
•What are the consequences of the Venice Time Machine
• Algorithms as mediators
• A new scale
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Zotero
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From Wikipedia
•Zotero is free and open-source reference
management software to manage
bibliographic data and related research
materials.
•The name Zotero is loosely derived from
an Albanian verb meaning to master.
•Zotero was developed by Center for
History and New Media (CHNM) at
George Mason University (GMU)
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From Wikipedia
•On many websites such as library
catalogs, PubMed, Google Scholar,
Google Books, Amazon.com, Wikipedia,
and publisher’s websites, Zotero shows
an icon when a book, article, or other
resource is being viewed. By clicking this
icon, the full reference information can
be saved to the Zotero library.
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From Wikipedia
•Zotero users can generate citations and
bibliographies through word processor
plugins, or directly in Zotero, using
Citation Style Language styles. Zotero
allows users to create their own
customized citation style.
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From Wikipedia
•In 2008, Thomson Reuters sued the
Commonwealth of Virginia and George
Mason University, based on the claim
that Zotero’s developers had, in
violation of the EndNote EULA,
reverse-engineered EndNote and
provided Zotero with the ability to
convert EndNote’s proprietary .ens styles
into Citation Style Language styles
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Ex : Create a new entry in Zotero
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Introduction to the Venice Time Machine
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(1) Panoramic intensiﬁcation
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1878
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1896
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1900
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1931
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1954
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1972
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2005
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2011
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2012
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1956
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The narrative crisis
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1991
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http ://arturo.over-blog.com/
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•20th century culture was built on
narration. Ex :
• War is not a crisis but a path towards liberation
• Democraty is not a mode of governance it is force
to free humanity
• Apple does not sell computer and phones, it the
story of two men with a vision : Giving power to
the creative people
•the Y2K millenium bug was the last
great narration.
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•Narration has become more complex
over time.
•TV series are much more complex than
before.
•This has been measure by a group of
DH101 student last year
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Infinite stories
•A transformation of story arcs
•ex 1 : Grey’s anatomy and the
neverending story.
•ex 2 : World of Warcraft and
personalized narration
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Time as a variable
•ex 1 : CSI and spatiotemporal puzzles
•ex 2 : Lost and multiple temporal
threads
•ex 3 : Heroes and time as a narrative
variable
•Inﬁnite stories in four dimensions
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How can the past be more present ?
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1896
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1896 : Relief Magnin
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Can we add a slider on Google maps ?
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Garzoni project / Valentina Sapienza et. al.
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1500
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1550
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1572
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1576
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1765
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1829
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1859
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1910
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1008
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808
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Visualizing Venice / Academia / Svalduz, di Lenardo et al
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900
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1100
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1500
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Doris Stockly
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incanti.dhlab.ch
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Multidimensional case studies
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The central scientiﬁc challenge of the project is
qualifying, quantifying and representing uncertainty and
inconsistency at each step of this process.
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How can we detect and correct inconsistencies ? How can
we represent uncertainty ?
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(1) Such kind of projects needs an ethics of
representation. An ethics of representation imposes a
certain level of formalism.
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(2) Aligning different data sets also imposes an additional
level of formalism. There is a need for semantic
framework capable of coding historical information and
meta-historical information.
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(3) Eventually, with simulation, algorithms tend to play a
bigger role in historical debates.
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These three evolutions create a shift in historical
practices, introducing algorithms as new mediators.
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How should we communicate this new research to a large
audience ? Venice with its 30 million visitors / year is one
of the best place to imagine the museum of the future.
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What about a Facebook of the past ?
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Is research in the Humanities about to undergo an
evolution similar to what happened to life sciences 30
years ago ?
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This evolution is characterized by projects at a new scale,
beyond what any single research team can do.
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We need to foster a new generation of Digital Humanists
ready for this shift.
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These students will not only beneﬁt from such large scale
projects, they will play an active role for their success.
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frederic.kaplan@epﬂ.ch / dhlab.epﬂ.ch
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