Citizen Humanities as a Fusion of Digital and Public Humanities?

Digital Humanities 2010

The study of intertextuality, the shaping of a text’s meaning by other texts, remains a laborious process for the literary critic. Kristeva (Kristeva, 1986) suggests that "Any text is constructed as a mosaic of quotations; any text is the absorption and transformation of another.& The nature of these mosaics is widely varied, from direct quotations representing a simple and overt intertextualit...

Formal Representation and Digital Humanities

Between Humanities and the Digital

contested and exciting field, as well as of its future directions. The volume describes the breadth and depth of how the humanities engage with the digital and information technology, including discipline-specific studies and perspectives, research infrastructure, innovative tools, and creative expression. We are committed in and through the volume to articulate an expansive and large-scale vis...

Killer Applications in Digital Humanities

The emerging discipline of “digital humanities” has been plagued by a perceived neglect on the part of the broader humanities community. The community as a whole tends not to be aware of the tools developed by DH practitioners (as documented by the recent surveys by Siemens et al.), and tends not to take seriously many of the results of scholarship obtained by DH methods and tools. This paper a...

DHTK: The Digital Humanities ToolKit

Digital Humanities have the merit of connecting two very different disciplines such as humanities and computer science. In this paper we present a new python library, The Digital Humanities ToolKit (DHTK), whose scope is to provide a fast and intuitive tool for a largescale study of large literary databases by leveraging on some well-known semantic knowledge resources. In addition, DHTK has the...