This document summarizes a presentation on digital humanities. It discusses working with both structured and unstructured data, challenges around data collection and representation, and examples of textual, spatial and network analysis projects. Resources mentioned include summer schools and tutorials for learning tools and methods in the field.
Digital Humanities, Big Data, and New Research Methodslorna_hughes
Keynote at Digital Music Lab workshop, British Library, March 13th 2015.
The talk sets out to review digital humanities projects that show the use and re-use of data, and to use these examples to frame a debate about how DH approaches to working with data can test new methods and approaches to working in the humanities
What does this mean for humanities research that use Big Data, and in return, what do the humanities have to offer the wider Big Data community through these approaches: what do the humanities, especially the digital humanities, bring to the big data party?
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Digital Humanities is a term that elicits both excitement and scorn in scholarly circles, and there is still a great deal of discussion as to whether it is a field of inquiry, a set of research methods, or simply a new perspective on arts and humanities research. This workshop will provide a brief survey of how the evolving theory and practice of using contemporary technology and technology-assisted research methods are impacting scholarship in the arts and humanities.
In this workshop we will discuss the use of technology in the work of the humanities, also known as Digital Humanities (DH). We will discuss how faculty can us DH to archive historical documents, as well as how DH might be used to motivate students with different learning styles. For technologists, you will learn the tools many people are using to implement DH projects, and how you can help faculty think about historical data in the context of a DH project.
Humanists and Linked Data (Steffen Hennicke – Humboldt Universität) at Enabling humanities research in the Linked Open Web – DM2E final event (11 December 2014, Navacchio, Italy)
An overview of the First World War Digital Archive, including its aims and collections. Part of the "Electric Connections 2008: Collaborating on Content" conference.
Digital Humanities, Big Data, and New Research Methodslorna_hughes
Keynote at Digital Music Lab workshop, British Library, March 13th 2015.
The talk sets out to review digital humanities projects that show the use and re-use of data, and to use these examples to frame a debate about how DH approaches to working with data can test new methods and approaches to working in the humanities
What does this mean for humanities research that use Big Data, and in return, what do the humanities have to offer the wider Big Data community through these approaches: what do the humanities, especially the digital humanities, bring to the big data party?
The World of Digital Humanities : Digital Humanities in the WorldEdward Vanhoutte
Keynote lecture on the Cross Country/Faculty Workshop on Digital Humanities: Prospects and Proposals, North-West University Potchefstroomkampus, South-Africa, 13 November 2013
Digital Humanities is a term that elicits both excitement and scorn in scholarly circles, and there is still a great deal of discussion as to whether it is a field of inquiry, a set of research methods, or simply a new perspective on arts and humanities research. This workshop will provide a brief survey of how the evolving theory and practice of using contemporary technology and technology-assisted research methods are impacting scholarship in the arts and humanities.
In this workshop we will discuss the use of technology in the work of the humanities, also known as Digital Humanities (DH). We will discuss how faculty can us DH to archive historical documents, as well as how DH might be used to motivate students with different learning styles. For technologists, you will learn the tools many people are using to implement DH projects, and how you can help faculty think about historical data in the context of a DH project.
Humanists and Linked Data (Steffen Hennicke – Humboldt Universität) at Enabling humanities research in the Linked Open Web – DM2E final event (11 December 2014, Navacchio, Italy)
An overview of the First World War Digital Archive, including its aims and collections. Part of the "Electric Connections 2008: Collaborating on Content" conference.
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With a special focus on biographical data in archives
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Presentation held by Jussi Nuorteva (Finnish National Archives) at "Freedom for Information - the Power of Open Data in the Cultural Field" on 02 May 2016 at the Upper Austrian State Archives (AT).
Europeana and the relevance of the DM2E results (Antoine Isaac – Europeana) at Enabling humanities research in the Linked Open Web – DM2E final event (11 December 2014, Navacchio, Italy)
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Linked data for knowledge curation in humanities researchEnrico Daga
The identification and cataloguing of documentary evidence is an important part of empirical research in the humanities.
An increasing number of recent initiatives in the digital humanities have as a primary objective the curation of collections of digital artefacts augmented with fine-grained metadata, for example, mentioning the entities and their relations, often adopting the "Linked Data" paradigm. This talk is focused on exploring the potential of Linked Data to support humanities scholars in identifying, collecting, and curating documentary evidence. First, I will introduce the basic notions around Linked Data and place its emergence in the tradition of Knowledge Representation, an area of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Second, I will show how Linked Data and AI techniques have been successfully applied in the Listening Experience Database project to support the retrieval and curation of documentary evidence. Finally, I will conclude the presentation by discussing the potential (and challenges) of adopting a "knowledge extraction" paradigm to automate the identification and cataloguing of metadata about documentary evidence in texts.
DM2E Community building (Lieke Ploeger – Open Knowledge) at Enabling humanities research in the Linked Open Web – DM2E final event (11 December 2014, Navacchio, Italy)
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Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities: some thoughts on what, why, and ...James Baker
Slides for a talk I gave at CHASE Digital Training Programme Opening Conference, Open University, 20 February 2015.
Notes: https://gist.github.com/drjwbaker/a95f4cee472af0d1773f
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Thinking of Linking: A random series of ideas, concepts, Platonic ideals, a yeoman's miscellany, and nonesuch guide to Linked Data, especially as it relates to libraries, archives, and museums. Martin R. Kalfatovic. American Library Association Annual Meeting. Anaheim, CA. 23 June 2012.
Milena Dobreva (University of Malta, MT): How to Index Biographical Data from Archival Documents Using the Methods of the Citizen Science
co:op-READ-Convention Marburg
Technology meets Scholarship, or how Handwritten Text Recognition will Revolutionize Access to Archival Collections.
With a special focus on biographical data in archives
Hessian State Archives Marburg Friedrichsplatz 15, D - 35037 Marburg
19-21 January 2016
Presentation held by Jussi Nuorteva (Finnish National Archives) at "Freedom for Information - the Power of Open Data in the Cultural Field" on 02 May 2016 at the Upper Austrian State Archives (AT).
Europeana and the relevance of the DM2E results (Antoine Isaac – Europeana) at Enabling humanities research in the Linked Open Web – DM2E final event (11 December 2014, Navacchio, Italy)
Rethink research, illuminate history with the British LibraryMia
Join Dr Mia Ridge, Digital Curator for Western Heritage Collections at the British Library, to discover how research and technology can create a richer picture of our past. Living with Machines is a collaborative project between the Alan Turing Institute, universities and the British Library – home to the world’s most comprehensive research collection. Together, they are using data science and digital history methods to analyse millions of historical documents and understand the impact of mechanisation in the 19th century. Their initial approach has focused on specific regions like Yorkshire that will help tell us the story of industrialisation in Britain.
Linked data for knowledge curation in humanities researchEnrico Daga
The identification and cataloguing of documentary evidence is an important part of empirical research in the humanities.
An increasing number of recent initiatives in the digital humanities have as a primary objective the curation of collections of digital artefacts augmented with fine-grained metadata, for example, mentioning the entities and their relations, often adopting the "Linked Data" paradigm. This talk is focused on exploring the potential of Linked Data to support humanities scholars in identifying, collecting, and curating documentary evidence. First, I will introduce the basic notions around Linked Data and place its emergence in the tradition of Knowledge Representation, an area of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Second, I will show how Linked Data and AI techniques have been successfully applied in the Listening Experience Database project to support the retrieval and curation of documentary evidence. Finally, I will conclude the presentation by discussing the potential (and challenges) of adopting a "knowledge extraction" paradigm to automate the identification and cataloguing of metadata about documentary evidence in texts.
DM2E Community building (Lieke Ploeger – Open Knowledge) at Enabling humanities research in the Linked Open Web – DM2E final event (11 December 2014, Navacchio, Italy)
Digitisation initiatives began due to long term preservation concerns. Questions concerning their impact have now come to the fore: “The measurable outcomes arising from the existence of a digital resource that demonstrate a change in the life or life opportunities of the community for which the resource is intended.” Jewish and Israeli digital resources can now be enhanced with relevant encyclopedias and controlled vocabularies through a LOD approach. The resulting knowledge grid can help bridge the gap between the digital resources and the knowledge of the intended communities of users. It will expand their application in narratives, scholarly research, higher education, K12, cultural tourism, genealogy and more.
Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities: some thoughts on what, why, and ...James Baker
Slides for a talk I gave at CHASE Digital Training Programme Opening Conference, Open University, 20 February 2015.
Notes: https://gist.github.com/drjwbaker/a95f4cee472af0d1773f
Thinking of Linking: A random series of ideas, concepts, Platonic ideals, a y...Martin Kalfatovic
Thinking of Linking: A random series of ideas, concepts, Platonic ideals, a yeoman's miscellany, and nonesuch guide to Linked Data, especially as it relates to libraries, archives, and museums. Martin R. Kalfatovic. American Library Association Annual Meeting. Anaheim, CA. 23 June 2012.
DM2E Content (Doron Goldfarb – ONB Austrian National Library) at Enabling humanities research in the Linked Open Web – DM2E final event (11 December 2014, Navacchio, Italy)
Opening talk for the Introduction to Digital Humanities Workshop, at the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School 2015. Presented 20 July 2015 in St Anne's College.
The Great Twentieth-Century Hole Or, what the Digital Humanities MissTU Delft, Netherlands
The Great Twentieth-Century Hole Or, what the Digital Humanities Miss.
Paper looking at lack of representation of 20th Century Digital Humanities
Presentation for Digital Humanities Benelux, June 2014
Historically Speaking, Digital Humanities, EWallis July 2012Elycia Wallis
A presentation given at a Professional Historians Association, Historically Speaking session in Melbourne, Australia, July 2012.
The aim of this talk was to describe digital humanities to a group of professional historians who might have heard of the term, but not be active practitioners.
Digital Art History: From Practice to PublicationSusan Edwards
Presentation given at colloquium during Beyond the Digitized Slide Library, a summer institute at UCLA in July 2015. More info: http://www.humanities.ucla.edu/getty/ #doingdah15
Proceedings from International Conference on Data Innovation For Policy MakersUN Global Pulse
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Pulse Lab Jakarta is a joint initiative of the United Nations, through Global Pulse, and the Government of Indonesia, through the Ministry of National Development Planning (Bappenas).
For more information, visit: http://www.unglobalpulse.org/blog/data-innovation-policy-makers
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Monetising the digital edition:
Remediations and inventions in publishing and disseminating digital scholarly editions
Anna-Maria Sichani & Aodhán Kelly
European Society for Textual Scholarship Annual Meeting, Leicester, November 2015
Abstract:
Digital scholarly editions are now introduced as a new type of scholarly product attempting to remediate the theory and practice of print-based textual scholarship within the Digital Humanities ecosystem. Although a vast amount of scholarly exertion is directed towards the exploration of digital editing as a scholarly enterprise (concepts, standards, technologies), significant discussions of sustainable models for publishing and disseminating the digital edition are rather infrequent. In which ways do digital technologies introduce new roles and methods within the communication and distribution systems of scholarly editing? If we want our digital editions to be sustainable in the long-term, how do we strategically plan and anticipate development and maintenance costs or revenue generation strategies (eg digital subscription models, value-added services, customised formats etc)? And, finally, how does a digital edition fit into the new digital agendas of publishing entities, mainly oriented towards open access strategies and smart - but limited-functional - formats? In this paper we intend to address these issues using empirical evidence gathered from a range of existing digital publications.
PGR open day Faculty of Humanities The University of Manchester November 2016Anusarin Lowe
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Digital Humanities: A brief introduction to the field
1. Digital Humanities
A brief introduction to the field
Dr Anouk Lang
Department of English
University of Edinburgh
@a_e_lang
Thurs 23 July 2015
6-7.30pm
Queen Mary
University of London
#adpsummer
2. “To infinity & beyond”: Where we’re headed
Working with data: where are the pitfalls?
- structured vs. unstructured
Overview of the field
- historical background and debates
Sample projects and tools
- textual, spatial and network analysis
Resources
- summer schools, workshops, teach-yourself tutorials, Twitter
@a_e_lang | anouk.lang@ed.ac.uk | #adpsummer
3. Working with data as a humanities scholar
Ben Schmidt, “Gendered language in teacher reviews”
http://benschmidt.org/profGender
interdisciplinary serious fun
@a_e_lang | anouk.lang@ed.ac.uk | #adpsummer
Randall Munroe, “Correlation”, XKCD, http://xkcd.com/552.
5. What are the limitations?
data collection sampling
What is obscured?
gender of reviewers context
gender of reviewees field size
@a_e_lang | anouk.lang@ed.ac.uk | #adpsummer
6. Data:
you’re not just using it but producing it
Facebook’s “emotional contagion” study
http://www.pnas.org/content/111/24/8788.full.pdf
Facebook voting study
www.nature.com/nature/journal/v489/n7415/pdf/nature11421.pdf
Homicide Watch homicidewatch.org
And, obviously, NSA/GCHQ/etc
@a_e_lang | anouk.lang@ed.ac.uk | #adpsummer
7. Data:
structured vs. unstructured
information that is organised in some way
vs information that comes without a data model
@a_e_lang | anouk.lang@ed.ac.uk | #adpsummer
9. Data:
structured vs. unstructured
information that is organised in some way
vs information that comes without a data model
Schmidt’s dataset: partially structured but also in
need of some curation
Data from an API, eg. Twitter data
@a_e_lang | anouk.lang@ed.ac.uk | #adpsummer
11. @a_e_lang | anouk.lang@ed.ac.uk | #adpsummer
Humanities data: often unstructured
Image from Flickr: Jason Weinberger, “Mahler Symphony
5, IV Adagietto [page 15]”, CC BY 2.0 licence.
12. @a_e_lang | anouk.lang@ed.ac.uk | #adpsummer
Jad Abumrad and Robert Crulwich, “Vanishing Words”,
RadioLab, www.radiolab.org/story/91960-vanishing-words/.
13. Concordancing software: AntConc (Laurence Anthony)
www.laurenceanthony.net/software/antconc/
Query 1: all instances of look as a simple text string
16. @a_e_lang | anouk.lang@ed.ac.uk | #adpsummer
Query 3: all instances of look as a verb (look_VV*)
followed by a preposition (*_II) then sorted 1R, 2R
19. Data:
always contingent, never objective
Johanna Drucker & the concept of ‘capta’
what kind of data curation is necessary?
who else has come up with categories/data models?
think about how to capture & structure your data early
@a_e_lang | anouk.lang@ed.ac.uk | #adpsummer
20. Overview of the field: Definitional skirmishes
Digital Humanities is a field of study in which scholarly
applications of technology are used to perform analyses and
generate insights that would be difficult or impossible to achieve
without the help of technology.
“digital humanities is more akin to a common methodological
outlook than an investment in any one specific set of texts or
even technologies”. (Matthew Kirschenbaum)
@a_e_lang | anouk.lang@ed.ac.uk | #adpsummer
23. @a_e_lang | anouk.lang@ed.ac.uk | #adpsummer
Historical antecedents: Humanities Computing
Roberto Busa, IBM & the Index Thomisticus
Livia Canestraro, one of the
female punchcard operators
for the Index Thomisticus.
CC-BY-NC, license by
permission of CIRCSE
Research Centre, Università
Cattolica del Sacro Cuore,
Milan.
Via Melissa Terras,
melissaterras.blogspot.co.uk
/2013_10_01_archive.html
24. @a_e_lang | anouk.lang@ed.ac.uk | #adpsummer
Disciplinary antecedents
• corpus linguistics, computational linguistics & NLP
• GIS (Geographic Information System / Science)
• within History, Cliometrics
• others …
25. @a_e_lang | anouk.lang@ed.ac.uk | #adpsummer
Readings giving historical background
• Kirschenbaum, Matthew G. ‘What Is Digital Humanities and
What’s It Doing in English Departments?’ ADE Bulletin 150
(2010): 1–7. http://mkirschenbaum.files.wordpress.com
/2011/01/kirschenbaum_ade150.pdf.
• Liu, Alan. ‘The Meaning of the Digital Humanities’. PMLA
128.2 (2013): 409–423. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23489068.
• Hockey, Susan. ‘The History of Humanities Computing’. In
Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens and John Unsworth, eds., A
Companion to Digital Humanities (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004).
http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/.
26. @a_e_lang | anouk.lang@ed.ac.uk | #adpsummer
Some broad debates and tensions in the field
• from outside the field: too empiricist, too positivistic, too
uncritical of the use of computers
• from within the field: not sufficiently
statistically/algorithmically literate, use of black boxes
• too apolitical: where are race, gender, & identity?
• too focused on literature
• “you’re not a real digital humanist unless you can code”
• “more hack, less yack”
27. Examples of projects and tools
@a_e_lang | anouk.lang@ed.ac.uk | #adpsummer
Image from In the Forbidden Land: An account of a journey in
Tibet ... With a map and two hundred and fifty illustrations (1898), p.154.
From the British Library’s Flickr collection of images in the public domain
Textual analysis
Mapping
Network analysis
28. 0 day lydia dear replied felt cried aunt hear uncle charlotte
1 wickham made till evening added world knew married father visit
2 lady man young catherine brother ladies happiness half friends settled
3 make great give hope thought pleasure present general affection conversation
4 time sister mother love feelings ill speak leave meryton life
5 mr darcy bingley miss collins mind london civility convinced feeling
6 mrs bennet family long gardiner morning town found character coming
7 elizabeth jane letter longbourn happy answer kind left kitty reason
8 good friend house lizzy subject sisters father netherfield told home
9 room manner daughter heard sir moment looked woman immediately began
For more on topic modelling, start at Vol. 2 issue 1, Journal of Digital Humanities:
http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/2-1/dh-contribution-to-topic-modeling/
@a_e_lang | anouk.lang@ed.ac.uk | #adpsummer
Textual analysis: Topic modelling
29. @a_e_lang | anouk.lang@ed.ac.uk | #adpsummer
Textual analysis: Stylometry
Authorship attribution: “the
science of inferring
characteristics of the author
from the characteristics of
documents written by that
author” (Juola 2006).
Deciphering
The Dynamiter
thedynamiter.llc.ed.ac.uk
30. @a_e_lang | anouk.lang@ed.ac.uk | #adpsummer
Textual analysis: Stylometry
Deciphering
The Dynamiter
thedynamiter.llc.ed.ac.uk
green = Fanny
black = Fanny
black = Robert
orange = Robert
red = authorship uncertain
35. Franco Moretti,
“Network Theory, Plot
Analysis”, New Left
Review 68 (2011): 81.
Also available as a
LitLab pamphlet: see
litlab.stanford.edu
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Network analysis and visualisations
38. Further resources
• DHOxSS: DH Summer School at Oxford
• Lancaster Summer Schools
• Further afield: DHSI, HILT, DH@Leipzig
• The Programming Historian
(http://programminghistorian.org)
• MOOCs, eg. IVMOOC, Coursera, FutureLearn
• Training courses at your institution, eg. ArcGIS
• Teach-yourself tutorials, eg. Codecademy
• DH Q&A http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/
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39. Matthew Jockers, “Revealing Sentiment and Plot Arcs with the
Syuzhet Package”, blog post, Matthew L. Jockers 2 Feb. 2015.
www.matthewjockers. net/2015/02/02/syuzhet/. Code at
https://github.com/mjockers/syuzhet.
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40. Eileen Clancy, “A Fabula of
Syuzhet II: Continuing the
tale of digital humanities
and sentiment analysis”.
Storify of tweets from 24
Mar-10 April 2015.
https://storify.com/clancyne
wyork/a-fabula-of-syuzhet-ii.
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41. until Syuzhet provides filters that don’t cause ringing
artifacts [extra lobes introduced into a graph by an
ideal low-pass filter], it is likely that most foundation
shapes will be inaccurate representations of the
stories’ true plot trajectories. Since the foundation
shape may in places be the opposite of the emotional
trajectory, two foundation shapes may look identical
despite having opposing emotional valences.
Jockers’s claim … may be due more to ringing
artifacts than to an actual similarity between the
emotional structures of the analyzed novels.
Annie Swafford, “Problems with the Syuzhet Package”,
blog post, Anglophile in Academia, 2 March 2015.
annieswafford.wordpress.com/2015/03/02/syuzhet/.
42. adapted from Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a
Half (hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.co.uk)
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