Presentation: "Researchers’ perceptions of DH trends and topics in the English and Spanish-speaking community. Day of DH data as a case study" at DH2016 Conference in Krakow. Authors: Gimena Del Rio Riande (gdelrio.riande@gmail.com) CONICET, Universidad de Buenos Aires Salvador Ros (sros@scc.uned.es) Elena González-Blanco (egonzalezblanco@flog.uned.es) Antonio Robles Gomez (arobles@scc.uned.es) Spanish University for Distance Education, UNED

1. Researchers’ perceptions of DH trends and topics in
the English and Spanish-speaking community. Day
of DH data as a case study
Gimena Del Rio Riande (gdelrio.riande@gmail.com)
CONICET, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Salvador Ros (sros@scc.uned.es)
Elena González-Blanco (egonzalezblanco@flog.uned.es)
Antonio Robles Gomez (arobles@scc.uned.es)
Spanish University for Distance Education, UNED

2. Day of DH 2009
On March 18th, 2009, 85 digital humanists around the
world participated in a social research project
designed to document "Just what do computing
humanists really do?". We did this through
photographs and blog entries reflecting on the day's
work. The "Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities"
project was conceived as a social publication project
that began with reflection on what we do as we do it.
(Rockwell et al. 2012)

3. Day of DH Hosting
• 2009-2012: University of Alberta (Canada)
• 2013-2014: MSU (USA)
• 2013-2014: UNAM (Mexico)
• 2015-2016: LINHD-UNED (Spain)

4. How do we call it?
• English: Day of DH
• Spanish: DíaHD (2013-2014)
• Last editions (bilingual): Day of DH

5. The method
• Scrapped public data from Day of DH sources

6. Data
collected/analyzed
6
(*) Calculated
(**) Red data are not available for
several editions
Blog
Post
Comment
- Post Summary
- Post Language (*)
- Post Content
- Published Date
- Updated Date
- Post Author
- Number of
comments
- Tags
- Blog ID (*)
- Blog Language
- Blog URL
- Blog Author
- Comment URL
- Comment Author
- Comment Content
- Published Date
- Local ID
1
0..*
1
0..*

7. Six years of Day of DH
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
900
1000
Day of DH
2009
Day of DH
2010
Day of DH
2011
Day of DH
2012
Day of DH
2013
Día HD
2013
Day of DH
2014
Day of DH
2015
Blogs
Posts

8. Productivity
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Day of DH
2009
Day of DH
2010
Day of DH
2011
Day of DH
2012
Day of DH
2013
Day of DH
2014
Day of DH
2015
Number of post per blog

9. Languages
• 2009-2012 Monolingual
– English
• Bridge experiences 2013-2014
• 2015 Bilingual
– English 80%
– Spanish 20%

10. Language detection DíaHD 2013
(percentage)
10

11. Rush Hours
11

12. Social Networks
12

13. Polarity
• Sentiment:
– Positive = 1.0
– Neutral = 0.0
– Negative = -1.0

15. DíaHD 2013

16. 2015

17. CONCLUSIONS
• Need of formal method to gather data about Day
of DH
– Standard Time, Controlled Vocabulary (TaDIRAH)
– Open access policy
• More participative and flexible platform. Maybe
Facebook-style?
• What is the ideal structure for multilingual Day of
DH?

18. Temporal user’s publication (by date)
20

19. Word cloud of Day-of-DH
2009 Entries

20. Word cloud of Day-of-DH
All-Editions Entries

21. Word cloud of DíaHD
Entries

22. Tags
• Groups and Tags defined by Rockwell et al. 2012
Tag Groups Defined Tags
Time of Day DDH-EarlyMorning, DDH-Morning,
DDH-Afternoon, DDH-Evening, DDH-
Night, DDH-AllDay
Place DDH-Home, DDH-Office, DDH-
Outside, DDH-Class, DDH-
CoffeeHouse, DDH-Lab
Administration and Project DDH-ProjectWork, DDH-
AdminService, DDH-Email
Social Event DDH-Meeting, DDH-Conference,
DDH-Class, DDH-Lab
Activity DDH-Reflecting, DDH-Teaching, DDH-
Research, DDH-Reading, DDH-
Programming, DDH-Writing, DDH-
Blogging, DDH-DataCollection, DDH-
Learning, DDH-Editing, DDH-Gaming

23. Tags (% of posts
for All-Editions)

24. Tags (% of posts
for All-Editions)

25. Tags (% of posts
for All-Editions)

26. Tags (% of posts
for All-Editions)

27. Tags (% of posts
for All-Editions)

28. Tags – Day-of-DH 2009
Note.- Removed the prefix “DDH-” in tags for clarity

29. Tags – All Day-of-DH
Note.- Removed the prefix “DDH-” in tags for clarity

30. Tags – DíaHD 2013

31. Tags – Evolution
Edition Most Frequent Tags
2009 DDH-ProjectWork (209), DDH-Morning (189), DDH-Afternoon (167)
2010 DayofDH (20), DDH-Writing (11), DigitalHumanities (10)
2011 DDH-Reflecting (216), DDH-ProjectWork (173) , AboutDDH (105)
2012 DDH-Office (172), DDH-Home(169), DDH-Morning (167), DDH-
ProjectWork (142), DDH-Afternoon (141)
2013 DDH-Teaching (23), DayofDH (22), DDH-Morning (17), DDH-
ProjectWork (16)
2014 DayofDH (28), DDH-Teaching (14), DayofDH2014 (13)
2015 DigitalHumanities (15), DayofDH2015 (13), PatrimonioDocumental (13)
All-Editions DDH-ProjectWork (510), DDH-Reflecting (437), DDH-Morning (394),
DDH-Teaching (361), DDH-Afternoon (344)
Note.- Removed the “Uncategorized” category