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Visual Analysis of Engineers' Biographies and Engineering Branches
The Prosopographic Database of German Engineers 1825–1970 contains a multitude of biographical information. Given a set of research interests by collaborating historians, this paper discusses the steps undertaken (1) to extract engineering subjects from unstructured text entries in the database accompanied with geospatial and temporal information, (2) to adapt existing visual representations to facilitate exploratory analyses, and (3) to design a visual interface to support the interactive composition of engineering branches from engineering subjects to enable the comparative analysis of geospatial-temporal developments in engineering. Usage scenarios outline the benefit of the proposed visualizations for modern prosopography research
Patent Law, Copyright Law, and the Girl Germs Effect
[Excerpt] Inventors pursue patents and authors receive copyrights.
No special education is required for either endeavor, and nothing
precludes a person from being both an author and an inventor.
Inventors working on patentable industrial projects geared
toward commercial exploitation tend to be scientists or engineers.
Authors, with the exception of those writing computer code, tend
to be educated or trained in the creative arts, such as visual art,
performance art, music, dance, acting, creative writing, film
making, and architectural drawing. There is a well-warranted
societal supposition that most of the inventors of patentable
inventions are male. Assumptions about the genders of the
authors of remunerative commercially exploited copyrights may
be less rigid. Women authors are more broadly visible than
women inventors across most of the typical categories of
copyrightable works.
Yet, whether one considers patentable inventions or
copyrightable works, the vast majority of the very profitable ones
are both originated and controlled by men. This causes a host of
negative consequences for women. They start and run
businesses at much lower rates than men and rarely reach elite
leadership levels in the corporate world or within high-profile
artistic or cultural communities. They are perceived as less
competent, less dedicated, and less hard working, and suffer from
a lack of female mentors and female colleagues. Women are lied
to during financial negotiations more than men and earn less
than men in equivalent positions. Women control only a tiny
portion of the world’s wealth. Though female students
outperform male students in almost every context and at almost every level of education, and even seek postdegree job-related
training in greater numbers than men, this has not helped
women to produce and control patentable inventions or to author
and own valuable copyrighted works in numbers comparable to
men
MusiXplora: Visualizing Geospatial Data in the Musicological Domain
The musiXplora is an interactive and multimodal tool for the domain of musicology, developed in a
collaborative and interdisciplinary fashion. It serves as a research environment that, on the one hand, links large data
collections on musicians, musical instruments, events and more,
and, on the other hand, offers a set of visualizations which allow
users to explore and analyze these data sets comprehensively.
In this paper, we discuss our recent work to emphasize the
relevance of geovisualizations in the musicological domain and
provide detailed insights into how the musiXplora can be
used to address geospatial research questions. We introduce
two distinct use cases and discuss how musicologists can use
the musiXplora’s geovisualizations as distant-reading tools.
Thereby we demonstrate how the musiXplora can contribute to
the confirmation of existing hypotheses and to the formulation
of new ones
Explorative Visual Analysis of Rap Music
Detecting references and similarities in music lyrics can be a difficult task. Crowdsourced knowledge platforms such as Genius. can help in this process through user-annotated information about the artist and the song but fail to include visualizations to help users find similarities and structures on a higher and more abstract level. We propose a prototype to compute similarities between rap artists based on word embedding of their lyrics crawled from Genius. Furthermore, the artists and their lyrics can be analyzed using an explorative visualization system applying multiple visualization methods to support domain-specific tasks
How Visualization Supports the Daily Work in Traditional Humanities on the Example of Visual Analysis Case Studies
Attempts to convince humanities scholars of digital approaches are met with
resistance, often. The so-called Digitization Anxiety is the phenomenon that
describes the fear of many traditional scientists of being replaced by digital
processes. This hinders not only the progress of the scientific domains themselves
– since a lot of digital potential is missing – but also makes the everyday work
of researchers unnecessarily difficult. Over the past eight years, we have
made various attempts to walk the tightrope between 'How can we help
traditional humanities to exploit their digital potential?' and 'How can we
make them understand that their expertise is not replaced by digital means, but
complemented?' We will present our successful interdisciplinary collaborations:
How they came about, how they developed, and the problems we encountered. In
the first step, we will look at the theoretical basics, which paint a comprehensive
picture of the digital humanities and introduces us to the topic of visualization.
The field of visualization has shown a special ability: It manages to walk the
tightrope and thus keeps digitization anxiety at bay, while not only making it
easier for scholars to access their data, but also enabling entirely new research
questions. After an introduction to our interdisciplinary collaborations with
the Musical Instrument Museum of Leipzig University, as well as with the
Bergen-Belsen Memorial, we will present a series of user scenarios that we
have collected in the course of 13 publications. These show our cooperation
partners solving different research tasks, which we classify using Brehmer and
Munzner’s Task Classification. In this way, we show that we provide researchers
with a wide range of opportunities: They can answer their traditional research
questions – and in some cases verify long-standing hypotheses about the data
for the first time – but also develop their own interest in previously impossible,
new research questions and approaches. Finally, we conclude our insights on
individual collaborative ideas with perspectives on our newest projects. These
have risen from the growing interest of collaborators in the methods we deliver.
For example, we get insights into the music of real virtuosos of the 20th century.
The necessary music storage media can be heard for the first time through
digital tools without risking damage to the old material. In addition, we can
provide computer-aided analysis capabilities that help musicologists in their work.
In the course of the visualization project at the Bergen-Belsen memorial, we
will see that what was once a small diary project has grown into a multimodal
and international project with institutions of culture and science from eight
countries. This is dedicated not only to the question of preserving cultural
objects from Nazi persecution contexts but also to modern ways of disseminating
and processing knowledge around this context. Finally, we will compile our
experience and accumulated knowledge in the form of problems and challenges
at the border between computer science and traditional humanities. These will
serve as preparation and assistance for future and current interested parties of
such interdisciplinary collaborative project
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