Digital Methods for Complex Datasets: Ijhac Volume 10, Issue 1

ISBN-13: 9781474417426 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 138 str.

Jennifer Guiliano

Opis

Seeking to challenge the focus on 'big data' by understanding it outside of the computational power required to process it, this volume explores the role of digital methods in the future of digital humanities research. The essays are united by the theme of complexity - but manifest that complexity across an unusual spectrum. The methods included rise out of fields of study including library and information science, informatics, literary studies, English, and computer science. Sources explored include traditional national archives, international web archives, medieval musical scores, digitised books, early modern network ontologies and educational data/learning analytics. These essays discuss the practical implications of web scraping, the implications of creating new scholarly objects, the importance of documentation and the intricacies of applying topic modelling and linked open data methods. Together, the volume suggests that the humanities comfort with multiplicities, contingency, and uncertainty in sources may lend itself to resisting the reductionism that makes technical projects easier to manage, flattening messy, human data into neat binaries. These essays remind us that their results must be contextualised through scholars' knowledge of the sources and the methods by which they came to be constructed not just as 'big data' datasets.

Spis treści

Editors’ Note Notes on Contributors Special Issue: The Future of Digital Methods for Complex Datasets The Future of Digital Methods for Complex Datasets: An Introduction Jennifer Guiliano and Mia Ridge Mindset and Guidelines: Insights to Enhance Collaborative, Campus-wide, Cross-sectoral Digital Humanities Initiatives Chad Gaffield Towards Interoperable Network Ontologies for the Digital Humanities Alison Langmead, Jessica M. Otis, Christopher N. Warren, Scott B. Weingart, and Lisa D. Zilinksi Medieval Music in Linked Open Data: A Case Study on Linking Medieval Motets Tamsyn Rose-Steel and Ece Turnator Modeling the Humanities: Data Lessons from the World of Education Armanda Lewis Semi-supervised Textual Analysis and Historical Research Helping Each Other: Some Thoughts and Observations Federico Nanni, Hiram Kümper, and Simone Paolo Ponzetto Lost in the Infinite Archive: The Promise and Pitfalls of Web Archives Ian Milligan The World Wide Web as Complex Data Set: Expanding the Digital Humanities into the Twentieth Century and Beyond through Internet Research Michael L. Black Mechanized Margin to Digitized Center: Black Feminism’s Contributions to Combatting Erasure within the Digital Humanities Nicole M. Brown, Ruby Mendenhall, Michael L. Black, Mark Van Moer, Assata Zerai, and Karen Flynn