Organizational notes Digital Humanities: Description, Key Activities Practical Hands On: Text Analysis DH Examples PLIN064 Uvod do digital humanities Zuzana Nevěřilová xpopelkOf i.muni.cz Centrum zpracování přirozeného jazyka, B203 Fakulta informatiky, Masarykova univerzita 18. září 2019 Organizational notes Digital Humanities: Description, Key Activities Practical Hands On: Text Analysis DH Examples Organizational notes Digital Humanities: Description, Key Activities Practical Hands On: Text Analysis DH Examples Organizational notes Digital Humanities: Description, Key Activities Practical Hands On: Text Analysis DH Examples Organizational notes • interactive lectures • hands on, mostly as Python Notebooks • final project: processing of DH data of your choice short presentation Organizational notes Digital Humanities: Description, Key Activities Practical Hands On: Text Analysis DH Examples Computer technology has mediated in the development of formal methods in humanities scholarship. Such methods are often much more powerful than traditional research with pencil and paper. They include, for instance, parsing techniques in computational linguistics, the calculus for expressive timing in music, the use of exploratory statistics in formal stylistics, visual search in art history, and data mining in history. Although scientific progress is in the first place due to better methods, rather than solely due to better computers, new advanced methods strongly rely on computers for their validation and effective use. Put in a different way, if you are going to compare two texts, you can do it with traditional pencil and paper; but if you are going to compare fifty texts with each other, you need sound computational methods. [de Smedt et al., 1999] (emphasis by ZN) Organizational notes Digital Humanities: Description, Key Activities Practical Hands On: Text Analysis DH Examples Digital Humanities • new modes of scholarship • collaborative • trans-disciplinary • computationally engaged ... a new view on traditional objects in humanities Organizational notes Digital Humanities: Description, Key Activities Practical Hands On: Text Analysis DH Examples Digital Humanities • new modes of scholarship • collaborative • trans-disciplinary • computationally engaged ... a new view on traditional objects in humanities but also a study of digital objects from the point of view of the humanities Organizational notes Digital Humanities: Description, Key Activities Practical Hands On: Text Analysis DH Examples Knowledge Discovery introspection, intuition (pen & pencil) 4 data-driven research Organizational notes Digital Humanities: Description, Key Activities Practical Hands On: Text Analysis DH Examples Knowledge Discovery introspection, intuition (pen & pencil) 4 data-driven research 4V = velocity, volume, veracity, variety Organizational notes Digital Humanities: Description, Key Activities Practical Hands On: Text Analysis DH Examples Activities Fundamental Activities (not only in DH): • curation - selection and organization in an interpretive framework • analysis - processing of text or data & visualization • editing - keeping track of authenticity, origin, transmission, production • modeling - assumption about knowledge specific to the subject (e.g. in case of analyzing correspondence, a timeline) Organizational notes Digital Humanities: Description, Key Activities Practical Hands On: Text Analysis DH Examples Activities Fundamental Activities (not only in DH): • curation - selection and organization in an interpretive framework • analysis - processing of text or data & visualization • editing - keeping track of authenticity, origin, transmission, production • modeling - assumption about knowledge specific to the subject (e.g. in case of analyzing correspondence, a timeline) Organizational notes Digital Humanities: Description, Key Activities Practical Hands On: Text Analysis DH Examples Activities Digital Activities: • digitization, • classification, • description, • metadata organization, • navigation [Burdick et al., 2012] Organizational notes Digital Humanities: Description, Key Activities Practical Hands On: Text Analysis DH Examples DH Examples I Text • linguistics: synchrony and diachrony • language variations: dialects, slang, pidgin .. . • language and social groups • literary texts: authors, eras, areas • cross-lingual discourse • discourse analysis: event extraction, communication studies • names: toponymy, ethnonymy, demonymy . .. • history • cultural analytics: trends in cultural change • social studies • genealogy Organizational notes Digital Humanities: Description, Key Activities Practical Hands On: Text Analysis DH Examples DH Examples II Visual art • new media • virtual reality • museology: curation, preservation, access • archaeology: 3D modeling • architecture Multi-modal • anthropology: sound + video of human activities • analysis of video-games and other born-digital objects Organizational notes Digital Humanities: Description, Key Activities Practical Hands On: Text Analysis DH Examples DH in Czechia Czech Academy of Sciences LINDAT/CLARIN, DARIAH-CZ Organizational notes Digital Humanities: Description, Key Activities Practical Hands On: Text Analysis DH Examples [3 Burdick, A., Drucker, J., Lunenfeld, P., Presner, T., and Schnapp, J. (2012). Digit a LH u man ities. The MIT Press. Q de Smedt, K., Gardiner, H., Ore, E., Orlandi, T., Short, H., Souillot, J., and Vaughan, W. (1999). Computing in humanities education: A European perspective. University of Bergen. 3 Terras, M., Nyhan, J., and Vanhoutte, E. (2013). Defining Digital Humanities: A Reader. Ashgate Publishing Company, Brookfield, VT, USA.