digital scholarship in the humanities: digital engagement
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Digital Scholarshipin theHumanities
Edward VanhoutteEditor-in-ChiefDigital Scholarship in the Humanities
[email protected]@dshjournal
Edward Vanhoutte – EIC DSH – 7 April 2016 – #ojday
Digital Humanities?
‘This, for the humanities, is a question not to be answered but continually to beexplored and refined.’
[Willard McCarty, 2003]
Edward Vanhoutte – EIC DSH – 7 April 2016 – #ojday
Digital Humanities?
‘Digital Humanities tries to model theworld around us through success and failure in order to arrive at a betterunderstanding of what we know and don’t know about humankind, their activities, artefacts, and record.’
[Edward Vanhoutte, 2013]
Edward Vanhoutte – EIC DSH – 7 April 2016 – #ojday
Digital Humanities?
• Machine Translation
• Electronic Text Analysis
Edward Vanhoutte – EIC DSH – 7 April 2016 – #ojday
Digital Humanities?
• Machine Translation→ 1966: Computational Linguistics
• Electronic Text Analysis→ Literary & Linguistic Computing→ Humanities Computing
Edward Vanhoutte – EIC DSH – 7 April 2016 – #ojday
Digital Humanities?
• Machine Translation→ 1966: Computational Linguistics
• Electronic Text Analysis→ Literary & Linguistic Computing→ Humanities Computing
→ 2004: Digital Humanities
Edward Vanhoutte – EIC DSH – 7 April 2016 – #ojday
Edward Vanhoutte – EIC DSH – 7 April 2016 – #ojday
Edward Vanhoutte – EIC DSH – 7 April 2016 – #ojday
Edward Vanhoutte – EIC DSH – 7 April 2016 – #ojday
Digital Humanities?
‘A tactical convenience’[Matt Kirschenbaum, 2011]
Edward Vanhoutte – EIC DSH – 7 April 2016 – #ojday
Digital Humanities?
‘A tactical convenience’[Matt Kirschenbaum, 2011]
‘A hipster qualification of the Humanities’[Edward Vanhoutte, 2013]
Edward Vanhoutte – EIC DSH – 7 April 2016 – #ojday
Digital Humanities?
Humanities Computing
Computational LinguisticsComputerScience
Multimedia/Game Studies
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HC
CLCSM/GS
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CLCSM/GS
DH
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CLCSM/GS
DH
Digital Scholarshipin the Humanities
Edward Vanhoutte – EIC DSH – 7 April 2016 – #ojday
Digital Scholarshipin the Humanities
1. Digital Technology2. Methodology3. Theory4. Interdisciplinary5. Experimentally6. Community Building
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AUTHORSHIP ATTRIBUTION / STYLOMETRICS
DATA & TEXT MINING
TEXTUAL CORPORA - TEXT ENCODING - METADATA
FILM STUDIES
DIGITAL HUMANITIES - METHODOLOGY
DIGITAL HUMANITIES - PEDAGOGY & CURRICULUM
TEXTUAL ANALYSIS
LINGUISTICS / MACHINE LEARNING
TRANSLATION STUDIES
NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
DIGITAL COLLECTIONS
TEXTUAL STUDIES - TEXTUAL EDITING - COLLATION
SOFTWARE & TOOL DEVELOPMENT
DIGITAL HUMANITIES - HISTORY
HISTORICAL STUDIES
MACHINE TRANSLATION
TEXTUAL THEORY
CORPUS LINGUISTICS
DIGITAL HUMANITIES - INSTITUTIONS
VISUALIZATION
3D MODELLING
DSH 2015
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DATA & TEXT MINING
TEXTUAL CORPORA - TEXT ENCODING - METADATA
Top 3
Stylometrics /Authorship Attribution
Application of the study of linguistic style
Authorship attribution• Academic / Literary• Forensic linguistics
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Robert GalbraithThe Cuckoo’s Calling (2013)= J.K. Rowling
Joseph Smith:
More than two-dozen ancientindividuals living from around2200 BC to 421 AD authored theBook of Mormon [1830]
Jockers et al.:
Five 19th century authors:● Solomon Spalding● Sidney Rigdon● Oliver Cowdery
Stylometrics /Authorship Attribution
• Forensic linguistics:• Paedophile tracing• Anonymous letters• Immigration claims• Divorce issues• …
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Text & Data Mining
Deriving high-quality information from textBy turning text into (network) data
• Parsing• Machine translation• Topic Categorization• Machine Learning
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Text & Data Mining
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• National Security / Intelligence:e.g. Media monitoring & Tracking/Monitoring terrorist activities
• Scientific discovery: PubMed• Publishinge.g. indexing, search/information access & monetizingcontent
• Marketinge.g. automatic adds placement
Textual CorporaText encodingMetadata
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Textual modellingSemantic modelling• Textual analysis• Publishing• Vizualisation
So far
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Digital engagement with the Humanities
ButDigital engagement with publishing?
Paradox of the Digital Humanities
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Importance of traditional publishing• Journals• Monographs• Edited volumes
→ Institutions / tenure / funding
Open Access
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• Open Access & Online Publishing
• Data sets
• Open Source Code
Open Access
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• Open Access & Online Publishing→ Digital Humanities Quarterly
• Data sets→ Institutional repositories
• Open Source Code→ Github
Digital engagementWith DSH?
Edward Vanhoutte – EIC DSH – 7 April 2016 – #ojday
• Journal archive as corpus• Textual analysis• Text & Data mining• Stylometrics• Visualization• …
Digital Scholarshipin theHumanities
Edward VanhoutteEditor-in-ChiefDigital Scholarship in the Humanities
[email protected]@dshjournal