dh101 2013/2014 course 3 - panoramic intensifcation, narrative crise and introduction to the venice...

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 2o

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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FromWikipedia

•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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FromWikipedia

•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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FromWikipedia

•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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FromWikipedia

• 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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The narrative crisis

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http ://arturo.over-blog.com/

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•20th century culture was built onnarration. 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 : 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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Garzoni project / Valentina Sapienza et. al.

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Visualizing Venice / Academia / Svalduz, di Lenardo et al

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Visualizing Venice / Academia / Svalduz, di Lenardo et al

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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 isqualifying, quantifying and representing uncertainty andinconsistency at each step of this process.

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How can we detect and correct inconsistencies ? How canwe represent uncertainty ?

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(1) Such kind of projects needs an ethics ofrepresentation. An ethics of representation imposes acertain level of formalism.

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(2) Aligning different data sets also imposes an additionallevel of formalism. There is a need for semanticframework capable of coding historical information andmeta-historical information.

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(3) Eventually, with simulation, algorithms tend to play abigger role in historical debates.

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These three evolutions create a shift in historicalpractices, introducing algorithms as new mediators.

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How should we communicate this new research to a largeaudience ? Venice with its 30 million visitors / year is oneof 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 anevolution similar to what happened to life sciences 30years 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 Humanistsready for this shift.

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These students will not only benefit from such large scaleprojects, they will play an active role for their success.

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frederic.kaplan@epfl.ch / dhlab.epfl.ch

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