Humanities Crowdsourcing

Field research for humanities with social media: crowdsourcing and algorithmic data analysis

Humanities rely on both field research data and databases but rarely have the means necessary for employing them. Crowdsourcing on the Web using social media specifically designed for the purpose offers a promising alternative. This article reports about two endeavors of this kind: enriching an art history database with semantic interpretations and collecting and assessing the regional and soci...

Arts Humanities

The aim of the symposium is to foster cross-disciplinary research on complex systems within or with the help of arts and humanities. The symposium highlights arts and humanities as an interesting source of data, where the combined experience of arts, humanities research, and natural science makes a huge difference in overcoming the limitations of artificially segregated communities of practice....

Computational Humanities

15Digital Humanities

The digital humanities continue to grow within the academy, moving from earlier concentrations on tools development towards more sustained conceptual encounters with our increasingly digital culture. A number of recent publications have introduced the key terms of reference for digital humanistic practice to those unacquainted or uninitiated with current developments in the field. Nevertheless,...

Crowdsourcing

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