Vers de nouveaux modes de lecture des sources

Les humanités digitales se situent à la croisée de l informatique, des arts, des lettres et des sciences humaines et sociales. Elles s enracinent dans un mouvement en faveur de la diffusion, du partage et de la valorisation du savoir. Avec leur apparition, les universités, les lieux de savoir et les chercheurs vivent une transformation importante de leur mode de travail. Cela entraîne une évolution des compétences et des pratiques. Cet ouvrage explique les origines des humanités digitales et ses évolutions. Il décrit leurs réussites, leurs potentialités, leur rapport à la technique et comment elles transforment les sciences humaines, la recherche et l enseignement. Il examine les enjeux des nouveaux formats, modes de lecture, et des outils de communication et de visualisation. Ce livre permet d aller plus loin dans vos pratiques et vos réflexions. Le temps des humanités digitales est venu

Digital Methods in the Humanities

Digital Humanities is a transformational endeavor that not only changes the perception, storage, and interpretation of information but also of research processes and questions. It also prompts new ways of interdisciplinary communication between humanities scholars and computer scientists. This volume offers a unique perspective on digital methods for and in the humanities. It comprises case studies from various fields to illustrate the challenge of matching existing textual research practices and digital tools. Problems and solutions with and for training tools as well as the adjustment of research practices are presented and discussed with an interdisciplinary focus

Digital Methods in the Humanities: Challenges, Ideas, Perspectives

Digital Humanities is a transformational endeavor that not only changes the perception, storage, and interpretation of information but also of research processes and questions. It also prompts new ways of interdisciplinary communication between humanities scholars and computer scientists. This volume offers a unique perspective on digital methods for and in the humanities. It comprises case studies from various fields to illustrate the challenge of matching existing textual research practices and digital tools. Problems and solutions with and for training tools as well as the adjustment of research practices are presented and discussed with an interdisciplinary focus

Digital Methods in the Humanities

Digital Humanities is a transformational endeavor that not only changes the perception, storage, and interpretation of information but also of research processes and questions. It also prompts new ways of interdisciplinary communication between humanities scholars and computer scientists. This volume offers a unique perspective on digital methods for and in the humanities. It comprises case studies from various fields to illustrate the challenge of matching existing textual research practices and digital tools. Problems and solutions with and for training tools as well as the adjustment of research practices are presented and discussed with an interdisciplinary focus

Cultura jurisdiccional y digitalización de la memoria del “gobierno de justicia.” Modelado de datos y enfoque digital para la historia del derecho de Iberoamérica

Can a machine retrieve the cultural meaning from a corpus of sources? This article addresses the scope and restrictions that digitization, transcription, and data modeling represents for machine-mediated readings of legal, historical records, particularly those derived from the cultural context of Hispanic empire. It compares the dichotomy between the ambiguous language of ancient regime legal texts and the unambiguity required by machinereadable files. Besides, is problematize the corporal reading and the strategy of distant-reading and visualizations as a model for interpretation of vast bulk of textual data. We propose a strategy for segmentation and data modelling for the approach the textual logic of ancient regime legal records based on their hierarchization, interrelation with nonjudiciary sources (theological, historical, philosophical, etc.), its internal segmentation, the non-linear logic of the normative, and the authoritative requirements of compilations and relevant legal works. Its conclude that the advantages of automation are attached to the ability to manipulate files without distorting the original meaning of the texts, therefore, it proposes the necessity to develop standardized vocabularies that help to avoid anachronistic approaches regarding Modern Age legal sources.¿Puede una máquina recuperar el significado cultural de un corpus de fuentes? Este artículo aborda el alcance y las restricciones que representan la digitalización, la transcripción y el modelado de datos para las lecturas automatizadas de registros legales e históricos, en particular aquellos derivados del contexto cultural del imperio hispano. Compara la dicotomía entre la ambigüedad característica de los textos legales del antiguo régimen y la precisión requerida para la legibilidad automatizada. Además, problematiza la lectura corporal, la estrategia de lectura distante y las visualizaciones como un modelo para la interpretación de la gran mayoría de los datos textuales. Se propone un modelo de segmentación y modelado de datos que aborde la lógica textual de los registros legales del antiguo régimen con base en su jerarquización, interrelación con fuentes no judiciales (teológicas, históricas, filosóficas, entre otras), su segmentación interna, la lógica de lectura no lineal de la normativa, así como los argumentos de autoridad requeridos en compilaciones y trabajos legales relevantes. Concluye que las ventajas de la automatización están asociadas a la capacidad de manipular archivos sin distorsionar el significado original de los textos, por lo tanto, propone la necesidad de desarrollar vocabularios estandarizados que ayuden a evitar enfoques anacrónicos con respecto a las fuentes legales de la Edad Moderna

DH Benelux Journal 3. DH Benelux Online

The third volume of the DH Benelux Journal. This volume includes six full-length, peer-reviewed articles that are based on accepted contributions to the 2020 virtual DH Benelux conference. Contents: 1. Editor's Preface (Wout Dillen, Marijn Koolen, Marieke van Erp); 2. Introduction: Digital Humanities Online (Antske Fokkens, Christian Gosvig Olesen); 3. I Catching. Computationally Operationalising Narrative Perspective for Stylometric Analysis (Lisanne M. van Rossum, Joris J. van Zundert, Karina van Dalen-Oskam); 4. Reconstructing Gavin Douglas’s Translation Practice in the Eneados Using a Corpus Linguistic-Based Method (Megan Bushnell); 5. Using Linked Data to Track and Trace Processes of Canonization in Early Modern Dutch Literature (Harm Nijboer, Lieke van Deinsen, Leon van Wissen, Judith Brouwer, Ton van Strien, Frans Blom); 6. Vehemence and Victims: Emotion Mining Historical Parliamentary Debates on War Victims in the Netherlands (Milan van Lange and Ralf Futselaar); 7. #Bookstagram and Beyond. The Presence and Depiction of the Bachmann Literary Prize on Social Media (2007-2017) (Lore De Greve, Gunther Martens); 8. The Digital Humanities Classroom as a “Node”. From Toolbox to Mindset? (Florentina Armaselu)

Partners in Practice: Contemporary Irish Literature, World Literature and Digital Humanities

This dissertation examines the opportunities and implications afforded Irish literary studies by developments in the newly emergent disciplines of world literature and the digital humanities. Employing the world literature theories of Wai Chee Dimock, David Damrosch, Franco Moretti and Pascale Casanova in the critical analysis of works of contemporary Irish literature and Irish literary criticism produced in the period 1998-2010, it investigates how these theoretical approaches can generate new perspectives on Irish literature and argues that the real “problem” of world literature as it relates to Irish literary studies lies in establishing an interpretive method which enables considerations of the national within a global framework. This problem serves as the entry point to the engagement with the digital humanities presented throughout the dissertation. Situated within debates surrounding modes of “close” and “distant reading” (Moretti 2000) as they are played out in both the fields of world literature and digital literary studies, this work proposes an alternative digital humanities approach to the study of world literature to the modes of “distant reading” endorsed by literary critic, Franco Moretti and digital humanists such as Alan Liu (Liu 2012). Through a series of interdisciplinary case studies combining national and international, close and distant and old and new modes of literary scholarship, it argues that, rather than being opposed to a nationally-orientated form of literary criticism, the digital humanities have the tools and the methodologies necessary to bring Irish literary scholarship into a productive dialogue with perspectives from elsewhere and thus, to engender a form of Irish literary scholarship that transcends while not denying the significance of the nation state. By illustrating the manner in which the digital humanities can be employed to enhance and extend traditional approaches in Irish literary studies, this project demonstrates that Irish studies and the digital humanities can be “practicing partners” in a way that serves to advance work in both the fields of world literature and digital literary studies

Adam Scriveyn in Cyberspace: Loss, Labour, Ideology, and Infrastructure in Interoperable Reuse of Digital Manuscript Metadata

This chapter seeks to demystify invisible work at the heart of manuscript digitization. Descriptive metadata and its curation are the unseen elements upon which image discoverability—and later reuse—depends. Seeing and taking seriously that labor, I contend, is fundamental to developing a more rigorous understanding of medieval manuscripts in our increasingly digital age. The chapter begins by connecting major challenges facing manuscript interoperability to the deeper disciplinary histories of codicology, library studies, and digital humanities. Next, it progresses through three case studies, each of which illustrates different challenges in digital manuscript studies. Studying the Walters Art Museum metadata, I emphasize how change (mouvance, variance) is inevitable in digital manuscripts. Working with Parker on the Web, I reveal how and why data curation is a process not just of preservation, but also of loss. Finally, in ecodices, the Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland, I connect individual curatorial choices to larger debates about access, audience, and the problematic monolingualism of the digital humanities. Throughout, I argue that creation and curation are not neutral acts. I repeatedly highlight how my medievalist roots shaped specific curatorial practices and use medieval poets to theorize my work on digital manuscripts. By foregrounding my own narrative of growth as a digital humanist, I seek to show how often-unseen laborers profoundly influence digitizations--and, through them, digital humanities more broadly. Ultimately, I argue that a more just digital humanities must include digitizers in its histories, presents, and futures

Digital History and Hermeneutics

For doing history in the digital age, we need to investigate the “digital kitchen” as the place where the “raw” is transformed into the “cooked”. The novel field of digital hermeneutics provides a critical and reflexive frame for digital humanities research by acquiring digital literacy and skills. The Doctoral Training Unit "Digital History and Hermeneutics" is applying this new digital practice by reflecting on digital tools and methods