The role of Lucha Libre in the construction of Mexican male identity

Lucha Libre has played an important role in Mexican culture since the late 1950s. The sport became famous mainly due to its masked wrestlers, who incorporated their own family traditions, beliefs and fears into the design of their masks, transforming an ordinary person into a fearless character

Tangible User Interfaces as a Pathway for Information Visualisation for Low Digital Literacy in the Digital Humanities

Information visualisation has become a key element for empowering users to answer and produce new questions, make sense and create narratives about specific sets of information. Current technologies , such as Linked Data, have changed how researchers and professionals in the Humanities and the Heritage sector engage with information. Digital literacy is of concern in many sectors, but is especially of concern for Digital Humanities. This is due to the fact that the Humanities and Heritage sector face an important division based on digital literacy that produce gaps in the way research can be carried out. One way to overcome the challenge of digital literacy and improve access to information can be Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs), which allow a more meaningful and natural pathway for a wide range of users. TUIs make use of physical objects to interact with the computer. In particular, they can facilitate the interaction process between the user and a data visualisation system. This position paper discusses the opportunity to engage with Digital Humanities information via TUIs and data visualisation tools, offering new ways to analyse, investigate and interpret the past

An ontological approach for unlocking the Colonial Archive

Cultural Heritage institutions have been exploring new ways of making available their catalogues in digital format. Recently, new approaches have emerged as \note{methods} to reuse and make available the contents for computational purposes. This work introduces a methodology to transform digital collections into Linked Open Data following best practices. The framework has been applied to Indigenous and Spanish colonial archives based on the collection \emph{Relaciones Geográficas of Mexico and Guatemala} provided by the LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections. The results of this work are publicly available. This work aims at encouraging Cultural Heritage institutions to publish and reuse their digital collections using \note{advanced} methods and techniques

Text Mining the History of Medicine

Historical text archives constitute a rich and diverse source of information, which is becoming increasingly readily accessible, due to large-scale digitisation efforts. However, it can be difficult for researchers to explore and search such large volumes of data in an efficient manner. Text mining (TM) methods can help, through their ability to recognise various types of semantic information automatically, e.g., instances of concepts (places, medical conditions, drugs, etc.), synonyms/variant forms of concepts, and relationships holding between concepts (which drugs are used to treat which medical conditions, etc.). TM analysis allows search systems to incorporate functionality such as automatic suggestions of synonyms of user-entered query terms, exploration of different concepts mentioned within search results or isolation of documents in which concepts are related in specific ways. However, applying TM methods to historical text can be challenging, according to differences and evolutions in vocabulary, terminology, language structure and style, compared to more modern text. In this article, we present our efforts to overcome the various challenges faced in the semantic analysis of published historical medical text dating back to the mid 19th century. Firstly, we used evidence from diverse historical medical documents from different periods to develop new resources that provide accounts of the multiple, evolving ways in which concepts, their variants and relationships amongst them may be expressed. These resources were employed to support the development of a modular processing pipeline of TM tools for the robust detection of semantic information in historical medical documents with varying characteristics. We applied the pipeline to two large-scale medical document archives covering wide temporal ranges as the basis for the development of a publicly accessible semantically-oriented search system. The novel resources are available for research purposes, while the processing pipeline and its modules may be used and configured within the Argo TM platform

Preface

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iDAH Research Software Engineering (RSE) Steering Group working paper

This is the final version. Available from the iDAH Research Software Engineering (RSE) Steering Group via the DOI in this record. Our purpose was to convene a broad and representative group from the UK Research Software Engineering (RSE) community to discuss opportunities for and barriers to the development of Arts & Humanities (AH) RSE capability, with a specific focus on contributing to the AHRC Infrastructure for Digital Innovation and Curation in Arts and Humanities (iDAH) project and a wider remit to consider longer term strategic priorities and opportunities for alignment with UKRI and EU initiatives. The discussion was intended to be foundational, inclusive, and broad-ranging, involving a wide stakeholder group encouraged to engage in ‘blue-sky’ thinking over short, medium, and long-term time horizons. The analysis contained in this working paper should be read in that context, as a reflection of early stage discussions intended to provide a platform for future more focused activity. Additional discussion and analysis is needed to produce substantive actionable conclusions

Space and temporality in herding societies:Exploring the dynamics of movement during the Iberian late prehistory

Approaches that treat the landscape dimension as more than joined ‘dots’, but as a continuum where it is acknowledged that places are related through entangled experiences over space and time, are especially useful in the study of herding societies, as the journeys these societies embark upon are the core of their social and economic strategies. In this chapter, I present a theoretical-methodological approach for the study of herding societies during prehistory, using the theoretical concepts proposed by time-geography 1 , in combination with geographic information systems 2 (GIS). The chapter uses the Copper Age (c.3100-2100 BC), the Early Bronze Age (c.2100-1550 BC), and the Late Bronze Age (c.1550-850 BC) societies of western Sierra Morena in Andalucía in Spain as case studies. The archaeological evidence available is analyzed in an attempt to understand the relationship between the spatial dimension of mundane and sacred places and the role of temporality and memory in herding cycles and prehistoric pastoral orbits

Foreword

The workshop addressed the use of geographic information systems and other spatial technologies in humanities research, bringing together researchers and practitioners from different subfields of computer science and the geographical information sciences, interested in applying spatial methods and technology to the humanities

Unlocking Nahua Cosmovision through Machine Learning

The tradition of writing in Mesoamerica was by paining. Most pre-Hispanic codices, however, would be destroyed during the Conquest of America. The tradition continued with colonial codices created by the tlacuiloque, where indigenous and Spanish techniques entangled while indigenous scholars resisted, contested, and fought to maintain their own traditions. The shift from pre-Hispanic to colonial codices marked significant changes in aesthetics and purposes. Pre-Hispanic codices combined painting, oral and performative traditions that served as mnemonic devices and held religious significance, connecting the diverse indigenous knowledge and cosmovision. It is estimated that around 20 pre-Hispanic codices survive, and the tradition of writing by painting was substantially transformed while preserving their legal relevance. Nonetheless, the legacy continues with over 500 colonial codices documented (Valle, 1999), and more being discovered by the communities that created and sheltered them. Codices chronicle the cosmovision, history, and mythologies of Mexican people and many still constitute ‘live documents’, influencing modern social practices (Jiménez Padilla & Villela Flores, 1999)