Oral History und Digital Humanities

IR-Unterstützung für die Digital Humanities: Problemstellungen und erste Lösungsideen

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...

No such thing as Humanities Computing? An Analytical History of Digital Resource Creation and Computing in the Humanities

This article seeks to answer the following questions: How is the outcome of a humanities computing project affected by the context in which it is established? Does this context have an effect on the way in which research is integrated into more traditional scholarly culture? What is the impact of national infrastructure and funding regimes? The research sought to determine how, within the confi...

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...