scholarly journals Foreword to the Special Issue “A Shared Task for the Digital Humanities: Annotating Narrative Levels”

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evelyn Gius ◽  
Nils Reiter ◽  
Marcus Willand
Keyword(s):  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Shared Task ◽  
Special Issue

Qualitative research in the digital humanities

KWALON ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Reinoud Bosch
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Concise Overview

Summary The article serves as an editorial to a special issue on qualitative research in the digital humanities. The author raises a number of questions regarding qualitative research in the digital humanities, and he provides a concise overview of the contributions to the issue and the answers these contributions (implicitly) provide to the questions raised. The article ends with an account of opportunities and challenges, and steps to be taken to enhance the potential of qualitative research in the humanities.

scholarly journals Editorial for the Special Issue on “Digital Humanities”

Information ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 359
Author(s):  
Cesar Gonzalez-Perez
Keyword(s):  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Computer Based

Digital humanities are often described in terms of humanistic work being carried out with the aid of digital tools, usually computer-based [...]

scholarly journals Introduction: The Importance of Place and Openness in Spatial Humanities Research

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Porter
Keyword(s):  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Small Component ◽  
Spatial Methods ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Crucial Component ◽  
Diverse Backgrounds ◽  
Selection Of

Digital Humanities (DH) is a dynamic and developing field. In recent years, its evolution has been witnessed foremost in the growth of funded DH projects and through the willingness of scholars from diverse backgrounds to not only work in DH research, but also as ‘digital humanists’. One crucial component to DH research is that of spatial enquiry, the expansion of which has rapidly evolved from a small component often found buried in research objectives, to the research aim of a growing number of projects. Spatial humanities, while still a relatively new interdisciplinary field, is exhibiting continued advancement and focus from the academic community; however, working with digital data is rarely a straightforward pursuit, even for the most accomplished scholar. Primarily access to appropriate and reliable (spatial) datasets, the keystone of spatial humanities research, the sharing and openness of spatial methods, tools and data (SMTD), and education in the former, all remain a challenge. Witnessing the continued rise of spatial humanities research, this special issue brings together a selection of articles delivered at Spatial Humanities 2016, a conference held at Lancaster University (UK). The aim of this multi-disciplinary conference was to explore and demonstrate the contribution to knowledge that spatial technologies in humanities research may enable within and beyond the digital humanities. Here, this introductory text and associated articles present key research that embodies the growing relevance of the spatial humanities across a plethora of fields and demonstrates several of the prevailing and enduring struggles when working in digital and spatial research. These articles emphasise that, despite common obstacles, spatial humanists make up an imaginative and thriving community keen to share innovation and knowledge and provide stimulating new insights through research.

scholarly journals Challenges of combining structured and unstructured data in corpus development

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. i-viii
Author(s):  
Tanja Säily ◽  
Jukka Tyrkkö
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Unstructured Data ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Unstructured Text ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
Common Problems ◽  
Rich Data

Recent advances in the availability of ever larger and more varied electronic datasets, both historical and modern, provide unprecedented opportunities for corpus linguistics and the digital humanities. However, combining unstructured text with images, video, audio as well as structured metadata poses a variety of challenges to corpus compilers. This paper presents an overview of the topic to contextualise this special issue of Research in Corpus Linguistics. The aim of the special issue is to highlight some of the challenges faced and solutions developed in several recent and ongoing corpus projects. Rather than providing overall descriptions of corpora, each contributor discusses specific challenges they faced in the corpus development process, summarised in this paper. We hope that the special issue will benefit future corpus projects by providing solutions to common problems and by paving the way for new best practices for the compilation and development of rich-data corpora. We also hope that this collection of articles will help keep the conversation going on the theoretical and methodological challenges of corpus compilation.

scholarly journals Digital Approaches Towards Serial Publications

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Joke Daems ◽  
Gunther Martens ◽  
Seth Van Hooland ◽  
Christophe Verbruggen
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Book Series ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Analysis Workflow

This special issue was inspired by the Digital Approaches Towards 18th–20th Century Serial Publications conference, which took place in September 2017 at the Royal Academies for Sciences and Arts of Belgium. The conference brought together humanities scholars, social scientists, computational scientists, and librarians interested in discussing how digital techniques can be used to uncover the different layers of knowledge contained in serial publications such as newspapers, journals, and book series. In this introduction, we discuss some of the key concepts the reader will find throughout this volume, how they fit into the digitization and analysis workflow a digital humanities scholar might employ, and where the different contributions to this volume come into play.

scholarly journals Digital Humanities and Ritual Space: A Reappraisal

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 598-614
Author(s):  
Giorgos Papantoniou ◽  
Apostolos Sarris ◽  
Christine E. Morris ◽  
Athanasios K. Vionis
Keyword(s):  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Research Network ◽  
Ritual Practice ◽  
Spatial Analyses ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Cultural Heritage Management ◽  
Sacred Landscapes ◽  
Ritual Space

AbstractIn this editorial article for the Special Issue on Unlocking Sacred Landscapes: Digital Humanities and Ritual Space, we introduce the applicability of digital humanities to the study of ritual space. The Issue focuses on digital approaches both to ritual space and to artefacts relating to ritual practice and cult. The terms ritual and cult are used broadly to include sanctuaries, temples and churches, as well as the domestic and funerary spheres of life. We include contributions with a strong methodological focus on computational developments, digitisation processes and spatial analyses. Although the main focus of the Unlocking Sacred Landscapes (UnSaLa) Research Network is the Mediterranean region, we have also encouraged colleagues working in other areas of the world to contribute to this volume, with a view to stimulating wider methodological dialogues and comparative approaches. The chronological span ranges from prehistory to the recent past, and includes cultural heritage management.

scholarly journals Identification of Parallel Passages Across a Large Hebrew/Aramaic Corpus

2018 ◽  
Vol Special Issue on... (Towards a Digital Ecosystem:...) ◽  
Author(s):  
Avi Shmidman ◽  
Moshe Koppel ◽  
Ely Porat
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Matched Pairs ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Babylonian Talmud ◽  
Sample Data ◽  
Computer Aided ◽  
Large Corpus

We propose a method for efficiently finding all parallel passages in a large corpus, even if the passages are not quite identical due to rephrasing and orthographic variation. The key ideas are the representation of each word in the corpus by its two most infrequent letters, finding matched pairs of strings of four or five words that differ by at most one word and then identifying clusters of such matched pairs. Using this method, over 4600 parallel pairs of passages were identified in the Babylonian Talmud, a Hebrew-Aramaic corpus of over 1.8 million words, in just over 30 seconds. Empirical comparisons on sample data indicate that the coverage obtained by our method is essentially the same as that obtained using slow exhaustive methods. Comment: Submission to the Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities (Special Issue on Computer-Aided Processing of Intertextuality in Ancient Languages)

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