Digital humanities across the disciplines

Library and Information Science and Digital Humanities: Two Disciplines, Joint Future?

The relationship between the disciplines of library and information science and of digital humanities is analysed, in terms of common topics, issues and perspectives. A model to integrate the two, based on the components of the communication chain of recorded information is proposed. It is suggested that a partial integration of the disciplines, to the extent that their concerns are reflected b...

Olfactory consciousness across disciplines

Although vision is the de facto model system of consciousness research, studying olfactory consciousness has its own advantages, as this collection of articles emphatically demonstrates. One advantage of olfaction is its computational and phenomenological simplicity, which facilitates the identification of basic principles. Other researchers study olfactory consciousness not because of its simp...

Contents Ontologies across disciplines

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...

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...