scholarly journals Examples of challenges and opportunities in visual analysis in the digital humanities

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holly Rushmeier ◽  
Ruggero Pintus ◽  
Ying Yang ◽  
Christiana Wong ◽  
David Li
Keyword(s):  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

Visual Analysis of Scientific Life of Scholars Based on Digital Humanities

2018 ◽  
pp. 461-473
Author(s):  
Wei Liu ◽  
Xinying Han ◽  
Xiaoju Dong ◽  
Zhiwen Qiang ◽  
Xuwei Chen
Keyword(s):  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Scientific Life

scholarly journals Smart Data for Digital Humanities

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcia Lei Zeng
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Smart Data

AbstractThe emergence of “Big Data” has been a dramatic development in recent years. Alongside it, a lesser-known but equally important set of concepts and practices has also come into being—“Smart Data.” This paper shares the author’s understanding ofwhat,why,how,who,where, andwhich datain relation to Smart Data and digital humanities. It concludes that, challenges and opportunities co-exist, but it is certain that Smart Data, the ability to achieve big insights from trusted, contextualized, relevant, cognitive, predictive, and consumable data at any scale, will continue to have extraordinary value in digital humanities.The emergence of “Big Data” has been a dramatic development in recent years. Alongside it, a lesser-known but equally important set of concepts and practices has also come into being—“Smart Data.”

scholarly journals Maéva Clément and Eric Sangar (Eds): Researching Emotions in International Relations

2021 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-96
Author(s):  
Martin Petlach
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Innovative Methods ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Social Scientific

This edited volume is the first to discuss the methodological implications of the ‘emotional turn’ in International Relations. While emotions have become of increasing interest to IR theory, methodological challenges have yet to receive proper attention. Acknowledging the pluralityof ontological positions, concepts and theories about the role of emotions in world politics, this volume presents and discusses various ways to research emotions empirically. Based on concrete research projects, the chapters demonstrate how social-scientific and humanitiesoriented methodological approaches can be successfully adapted to the study of emotions in IR. The volume covers a diverse set of both well-established and innovative methods, including discourse analysis, ethnography, narrative, and visual analysis. Through a hands-on approach, each chapter sheds light on practical challenges and opportunities, as well as lessons learnt for future research. The volume is an invaluable resource for advanced graduate and postgraduate students as well as scholars interested in developing their own empirical research on the role of emotions.

scholarly journals Information literacy in the humanities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Pettersson
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Round Table ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
New Ways Of Working ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

Many university libraries hold cultural heritage collections that are unknown to the majority of students. The digitisation of these collections offers new ways of working with primary sources, and with it, an increasing interest in archives and older collections. This development has made us reflect on our information literacy classes within the humanities. Are we too influenced by the STEM and social science interpretations of information literacy and their focus on the peer-reviewed article? We want to challenge this view and discuss what a humanities approach to information literacy could incorporate.We want to invite you to a discussion on how we can integrate archival material and other primary sources into our classes,thus broadening mainstream information literacy to include primary source literacy (see ACRL’s Guidelines for primary source literacy, 2018). Our understanding is that this topic is generally not discussed at Nordic information literacy conferences, and our literature review indicates that this field is mostly addressed by special collections librarians and archivists (Hauck & Robinson, 2018; Hubbard & Lotts, 2013; Samuelson & Coker, 2014).In addition, in digital humanities pedagogy, there is need for reflection on data or sources beyond “tool-based thinking” which this approach would open up for(Giannetti, 2017). We will share two examples of how we have engaged students with primary sources and discuss the pedagogical challenges and opportunities. Our aim has been to go beyond show and tell and let the students actively work with primary sources. One example, from the Master’s Program in Digital Humanities, involved working with digitised sources using the platform Omeka. In the other, first year students from the Department of Conservation explored primary sources from the Gothenburg Exhibitionheld in 1923. Hopefully, this round table can be a stepping-stone for forming a network where we continue to share our experiences.

scholarly journals Review: Diversity NOW! Fashion & Race with Kimberly Jenkins

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Jaclyn Marcus
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Fashion Industry

The following article is a review of the 2018 Diversity Now! Lecture, entitled “Unleash the Power of Fashion to Challenge Racism,” led by Kimberly Jenkins and held by Ryerson University’s Centre for Fashion Diversity and Social Change. Jenkins is a lecturer at Parsons University, where she first created and continues to teach her undergraduate course “Fashion and Race,” is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute, and a curator, anthropologist, and art historian. Jenkins is also the creator of the online digital humanities project entitled The Fashion and Race Database as well as co-constructing and presenting a lecture and workshop series known as “Fashion and Justice,” among involvement in many other groups, activities, and media that help to further representation and diversity in fashion education, research, and the fashion industry. The review covers Part 1 and Part 2 of her lecture, “Fashion and Race” and a visual analysis exercise, “The Power of Representation.”

scholarly journals From collection resources to intelligent data: Construction of intelligent digital humanities platform for local historical documents of Shanghai Jiao Tong University

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yin Qian ◽  
Zhuoyuan Xing ◽  
Xiaohua Shi
Keyword(s):  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Visual Presentation ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
Full Field ◽  
The Core ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Metadata Association

Abstract Local historical documents originated from daily life of people belong to special collection resources that were not published publicly. They are valuable assets of universities and libraries. At present, most documents had only finished digitalization or partial datalization work. However, the requirements of deep knowledge mining in documents data, providing visual analysis, and effectively supporting the research of historic humanities scholars had not been fully met. Taking the local historical documents project of Shanghai Jiao Tong University as an example, using relevant techniques of digital humanities (DH), the in-depth analysis and utilization research of documents data were carried out. On the one hand, the core database of the documents was established based on standardizing metadata cataloguing and establishing metadata association. On the other hand, based on the core database, an intelligent DH system platform was constructed. The platform is to realize full-field retrieval and display of the documents, text analysis, association analysis, statistics, and visual presentation of knowledge. In addition, in the process of using the platform for research, humanities scholars can continuously expand the data dimensions and the relationships between data, achieve intelligent supplementation of documents data and platform self-learning. The concept of DH has led to a new direction of database construction and platform development. In the exploration and practice of DH, libraries should continue to widen thinking, improve service and innovation capabilities, and provide better research perspectives, research environments, research support, and research experience for humanities scholars.

Mindset and Guidelines: Insights to Enhance Collaborative, Campus-wide, Cross-sectoral Digital Humanities Initiatives

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chad Gaffield
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Promising Practices ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Digital Scholarship ◽  
The Social ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
History Of

At the heart of the emergence and development of the Digital Humanities has been the potential to move beyond the out-dated epistemological and metaphysical dichotomies of the later 20th century including quantitative-qualitative, pure-applied, and campus-community. Despite significant steps forward, this potential has been only partially realized as illustrated by DH pioneer Edward L. Ayers’ recent question, ‘Does Digital Scholarship have a future?’ As a way to think through current challenges and opportunities, this paper reflects on the building and initial use of the Canadian Century Research Infrastructure (CCRI). As one of the largest projects in the history of the social sciences and humanities, CCRI enables research on the making of modern Canada by offering complex databases that cover the first half of the twentieth century. Built by scholars from multiple disciplines from coast-to-coast and in collaboration with government agencies and the private sector, CCRI team members came to grips with key DH questions especially those faced by interdisciplinary, multi-institutional, cross-sectoral and internationally-connected initiatives. Thinking through this experience does not generate simple recipes or lessons-learned but does offer promising practices as well as new questions for future scholarly consideration.

scholarly journals ShakerVis: Visual analysis of segment variation of German translations of Shakespeare’s Othello

2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 273-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhao Geng ◽  
Tom Cheesman ◽  
Robert S. Laramee ◽  
Kevin Flanagan ◽  
Stephan Thiel
Keyword(s):  
William Shakespeare ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Visualization System ◽  
Domain Experts ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
World Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Interest

William Shakespeare is one of the world’s greatest writers. His plays have been translated into every major living language. In some languages, his plays have been retranslated many times. These translations and retranslations have evolved for about 250 years. Studying variations in translations of world cultural heritage texts is of cross-cultural interest for arts and humanities researchers. The variations between retranslations are due to numerous factors, including the differing purposes of translations, genetic relations, cultural and intercultural influences, rivalry between translators and their varying competence. A team of Digital Humanities researchers has collected an experimental corpus of 55 different German retranslations of Shakespeare’s play, Othello. The retranslations date between 1766 and 2010. A sub-corpus of 32 retranslations has been prepared as a digital parallel corpus. We would like to develop methods of exploring patterns in variation between different translations. In this article, we develop an interactive focus + context visualization system to present, analyse and explore variation at the level of user-defined segments. From our visualization, we are able to obtain an overview of the relationships of similarity between parallel segments in different versions. We can uncover clusters and outliers at various scales, and a linked focus view allows us to further explore the textual details behind these findings. The domain experts who are studying this topic evaluate our visualizations, and we report their feedback. Our system helps them better understand the relationships between different German retranslations of Othello and derive some insight.

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