digital tools, trends and methodologies in the humanities and social sciences
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Digital Tools, Trends and Methodologies for the Social
Sciences and HumanitiesConceptualising a Diverse Field
5 October 2015 Shawn Day
DH@TheLibrary
Agenda‣ What is the significance of the Digital ? ‣ Where? ‣ Areas of Interest ‣ Trends ‣ Projects ‣ Keeping in Touch
Where Do You Come From? What Question Brings You Here Today?
Do Social Scientists ask the same Questions that Humanities Scholars do?
Objective1. Inspire as opposed to impose rigour on the Digital in
the Humanities and Social Sciences a. as an approach b. a discipline c. school of thought d. any sense of a cohesive whole
2. But instead to appreciate and to see how it may inform direction in your own research
How would you define Digital Humanities?
What is Digital Humanities - Josh Honn1. Humanistic scholarship presented in digital forms 2. Humanistic scholarship enabled by digital methods and
tools 3. Humanistic scholarship about digital technology and
culture 4. Humanistic scholarship building and experimenting
with digital technology 5. Humanistic scholarship critical of its own digital-ness
“The **moral** role of Digital Humanities in a data-driven world”
- Scott Wiegart
The Shape of Digital Scholarship
Digital Repository of Tools (DiRT) (dirtdirectory.org)
A Different Approach‣ What do you want to do? ‣ What have you got to work with?
‣ With the one caveat/note —> It’s all data!
Concepts and Processes‣ Analyze data ‣ Interpret data ‣ Annotate ‣ Model data ‣ Archive data ‣ Analyze networks between my data ‣ Capture information ‣ Organize data ‣ Clean up data ‣ Preserve data ‣ Collaborate ‣ Program ‣ Comment ‣ Publish ‣ Communicate ‣ Record audio/video ‣ Analyze the content of my data ‣ Analyze relationships between pieces of data ‣ Contextualize data ‣ Share ‣ Convert files
‣ Analyze the geographical aspect of my data ‣ Create ‣ Store data ‣ Crowdsource data enrichment/analysis ‣ Analyze the structure of my data ‣ Design ‣ Analyze the stylistics of my data ‣ Find information ‣ Theorize ‣ Disseminate data ‣ Transcribe audio, video or manuscripts ‣ Add markup to an object ‣ Translate ‣ Enrich metadata about an object ‣ Visualize data ‣ Collect information ‣ Build a website ‣ Add identifiers to data ‣ Write
All the Tools Fit to Recommend
Digging Deeper in DiRT
But there’s Something Bigger Happening Here‣ It’s Called TaDIRAH ‣ Taxonomy of Digital Research Activities in the Humanities
Aspects of the taxonomy‣ Activities ‣ Objects ‣ Techniques
DHO:DRAPieR
What’s At Queen’s for Example
What’s At Queen’s for Example
How a typical Digital Project Works
Stuff Services Use
Files Metadata
ClassificationData
Processing Database Analysis,
etc.
Display Search
Interaction VRE
DH MakerBus● Making culture and education
● Makerspaces in libraries
● Gamification
● Democratizing technology and mobilizing knowledge
● Art, craft, and design
● Digital humanities and the future of learning
● Digital literacy
● Cultural heritage management and the maker movement
● The use of digital tools for preservation of texts and objects
● Co-working, crowd-funding, and collaboration
The Shape of Digital Humanities
Melissa Terras DH Survey 2011
From Melissa Terras’ blog: http://melissaterras.blogspot.ie/2011/11/stats-
Terras: DH Centres
From http://melissaterras.blogspot.ie/
Terras: Quantifying DH
From http://melissaterras.blogspot.ie/
Terras: Accessing DH Resources
From http://melissaterras.blogspot.ie/
Terras: Investment
From http://melissaterras.blogspot.ie/
2012/01/infographic-quanitifying-digital.html
Terras: Growth of DH
From http://melissaterras.blogspot.ie/
Around DH in 80 Days‣ Global ‣ Multidisciplinary ‣ Multilanguage ‣ Transparent - List - Github Jekyll
Around DH in 80 Days
Case StudyExploring the ‘ordinary’ lives of rural pioneers/farmers in
nineteenth century Ontario
Canada
Ontario
South Western Ontario
Farm Journal Raw Materials‣ 100s of pages ‣ Varying hands ‣ Varying quality ‣ Columns ‣ No Context
Medical Diary
HistoryFlow
Processing1. Digitisation 2. Text Capture 3. Quality Control 4. Generate word frequency (Voyant, TAPoR) 5. Entity Recognition and Tagging 6. Isolate known farm activities (NLP - LanguageWare) 7. Collocate to link activity references to time, duration,
and resources (Voyant)
TaDIRAH: Digitisation
TaDIRAH: Text Capture and Quality Control
jEdit and oxyGEN
Word Frequency Analysis
Voyant Tools
Entity Recognition and Analysis
OpenCalais
Visualising the Results
Illustrator
Results - New Patterns1. Less time haying 2. The impact of
technology 3. More tasks faster
Value of the Exercise1. Easier to compare over intervals; 2. Multiple vectors with greater granularity in a
compressed space; 3. The challenge is to find rich enough source materials
to yield substantive datasets.
Areas of Interest‣ Digital History ‣ Digital Literary Studies ‣ Digital Public Humanities ‣ Citizen Science
Projects of NoteA Random Survey
Programming Historian
Yale Photogrammar‣ Photogrammar is a web-based platform for organizing,
searching, and visualizing the 170,000 photographs from 1935 to 1945 created by the United States Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information (FSA-OWI).
Yale Photogrammar
Yale Photogrammar
Yale Photogrammar
DHO:Discovery
Europeana
Europeana enables people to explore the digital
resources of Europe's galleries,
museums, libraries, archives and audiovisual
collections.
Republic of Letters - Pallad.io
Republic of Letters - Pallad.io
AHRC ICT Methods
arts-humanities.net
Corpus of Electronic Texts
Transcribe Bentham
HistoryPin
What Was There?
Conflict and Politics in NI
Rome Reborn 2.0
Voyant - Text Analysis
TAPoR - Text Analysis Portal for Research
Cool Tools from the RRCNMH
Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use application to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources.
Designed for cultural institutions, enthusiasts, and educators, Omeka is a platform for publishing online collections and exhibitions.
Omeka.net is a hosted service for your own Omeka collections, research, exhibits, and digital projects.
Short for “The Humanities and Technology Camp," THATCamp is a BarCamp-style, user-generated “unconference” on digital humanities.
Scripto is a free, open source tool that enables community transcriptions of document and multimedia files.
PressForward pioneers new methods to capture and highlight orphaned or underappreciated scholarship and share it with dh across the web.
ScholarpressManage your class, publish research, or collaborate on a conference presentation with this hub for scholarly & educational plugins
Anthologize is a free, open-source, plugin that transforms WordPress into a platform for publishing electronic texts.
Survey BuilderBuild online surveys that are especially applicable to oral histories.
Timeline Builder CHNM Labs: Easily create and manage a timeline of historical events for your website.
Serendip-o-matic connects your
sources to digital materials located in libraries, museums,
and archives around the world.
Web Scrapbook Store all kinds of media items — URLs, images, text, and movies — & collaborate thru the CHNM online scrapbook.
NeatLine
DH on the Island of Ireland
DARIAH
Digital Repository of Ireland
How to Keep in Touch with the Field‣ Twitter ‣ Humanist - Over 25 years ‣ Prof Hacker ‣ Global Outlook: DH
Upcoming Seminars and Workshops‣ 12 October / AHS7001 Digital Transformation of Research ‣ 19 October / Space and Time Tools for Innovation ‣ 9 November / Google Tools for Scholars ‣ 23 November / Data Visualisation for the Humanities ‣ 27 November / AHS7001 Digital Transformation of Research ‣ 7 December / Digital Project Management for Scholars
