PurposeThis paper presents a co-authorship study of authors who published in Digital Humanities j... more PurposeThis paper presents a co-authorship study of authors who published in Digital Humanities journals and examines the apparent influence of gender, or more specifically, the quantitatively detectable influence of gender in the networks they form.Design/methodology/approachThis study applied co-authorship network analysis. Data has been collected from three canonical Digital Humanities journals over 52 years (1966–2017) and analysed.FindingsThe results are presented as visualised networks and suggest that female scholars in Digital Humanities play more central roles and act as the main bridges of collaborative networks even though overall female authors are fewer in number than male authors in the network.Originality/valueThis is the first co-authorship network study in Digital Humanities to examine the role that gender appears to play in these co-authorship networks using statistical analysis and visualisation.
Classicists have long been at the forefront of the Digital Humanities. As is also true in mediaev... more Classicists have long been at the forefront of the Digital Humanities. As is also true in mediaeval studies, this engagement with technology is due primarily to the complexity of the primary sources under consideration and patchy and often fragmentary state of these same artefacts. The papers in this collaborative issue of Digital Medievalist continue this tradition of cutting edge technological and disciplinary work. Drawing from papers presented at the inaugural Digital Classicist Work-in-Progress seminar series in London in the Summer of 2006 and adding other specially commissioned papers, this issue provides an in-depth view of current research in many of the most important areas in the Digital Classics: text markup and electronic publication; geotagging and network analysis; semantic web/social networking technologies; visualization and relational database tools. While the papers are all written with a disciplinary focus on the Classics, the research they discuss is of obvious interest to mediaevalists, and those working in the Digital Humanities more generally.
Whether in universities, cultural heritage organizations such as museums, libraries and archives,... more Whether in universities, cultural heritage organizations such as museums, libraries and archives, commercial contexts and even in individuals' homes the application of computing to cultural heritage is transforming how the human record can be transmitted, shaped, understood, questioned and imagined. An increasingly mainstream area of academic research, in 2011 some 134 different academic courses offering Digital Humanities were identified (Spiro, 2011) and anecdotally it is clear that this number has increased since. The MA/MSc in DH in the Department of Information Studies, UCL was launched in 2010i. It is an interdisciplinary programme, exploring the intersection of digital technologies, humanities scholarship, and cultural heritage. Through it students with humanities backgrounds can develop necessary skills in digital technologies; students with technical backgrounds can develop necessary skills in humanities. It is designed to produce students capable of performing the role...
This article aims to form part of wider discussions associated with the development of the digita... more This article aims to form part of wider discussions associated with the development of the digital humanities in the Western sphere and the perceived dominance of the English language and preponderance of text-based scholarship. These discussions intend to raise questions around the lack of engagement that our field has with some geographical regions. As a case study, this article considers mainland China and asks how we might make positive steps to enable closer engagement in order to create a more global digital humanities to the benefit of us all. This study is informed by the first author's networking with Chinese digital humanities research groups and centres, as well as conference attendance in the PRC, and the experiences of the second author as a Chinese graduate student and researcher in the UK.
With many ongoing debates (Gold, 2012) and “unwritten” histories (Nyhan and Flinn, 2016), the res... more With many ongoing debates (Gold, 2012) and “unwritten” histories (Nyhan and Flinn, 2016), the research practice of the Digital Humanities (DH) has been around for 70 years. Many works have been trying to draw general conclusions of the disciplinary structure (McCarty, 2003; Gold, 2012; Terras et al., 2013; Schreibman et al., 2016; Nyhan and Flinn, 2016), and have pointed to the potential usefulness to analyse the discipline from statistical aspects. The usefulness focuses on describing the intellectual structure, scholarly interactions and disciplinary development of DH. Some studies have dedicated their attention to these matters (Grandjean, 2016; Nyhan and Duke-Williams, 2014; Quan-Haase et al., 2015; Wang and Inaba, 2009), or have focussed on one of these topics (Sugimoto et al., 2013), but few of them have engaged either with the bibliometric network method, or with the latest large-scale scholarly datasets to study the DH community as a whole. Therefore, to fill this gap, based...
Classicists have long been at the forefront of the Digital Humanities. As is also true in mediaev... more Classicists have long been at the forefront of the Digital Humanities. As is also true in mediaeval studies, this engagement with technology is due primarily to the complexity of the primary sources under consideration and patchy and often fragmentary state of these same artefacts. The papers in this collaborative issue of Digital Medievalist continue this tradition of cutting edge technological and disciplinary work. Drawing from papers presented at the inaugural Digital Classicist Work-in-Progress seminar series in London in the Summer of 2006 and adding other specially commissioned papers, this issue provides an in-depth view of current research in many of the most important areas in the Digital Classics: text markup and electronic publication; geotagging and network analysis; semantic web/social networking technologies; visualization and relational database tools. While the papers are all written with a disciplinary focus on the Classics, the research they discuss is of obvious interest to mediaevalists, and those working in the Digital Humanities more generally.
In summary, this handbook is a rewarding introduction to the topic of linked data and justifies i... more In summary, this handbook is a rewarding introduction to the topic of linked data and justifies its place on the professional''s bookshelf.
While there have been a number of publications exploring the research possibilities opened up by ... more While there have been a number of publications exploring the research possibilities opened up by digital humanities and arguing for its place in the higher education curriculum, it is not our purpose in the present chapter to contribute to this ongoing critical conversation. Instead, we wish to explore precisely what we should be teaching under the banner of "digital humanities". In the case studies that follow, we argue that this curriculum should focus on teaching students new approaches an..
Since the earliest days of hypertext, textual scholars have produced, discussed and theorised upo... more Since the earliest days of hypertext, textual scholars have produced, discussed and theorised upon critical digital editions of manuscripts, in order to investigate how digital technologies can provide another means to present and enable the interpretative study of text. This work has generally been done by looking at particular case studies or examples of critical digital editions, and, as a result, there is no overarching understanding of how digital technologies have been employed across the full range of textual interpretations. This chapter will describe the creation of a catalogue of digital editions that could collect information about extant digital editions and, in so doing, contribute to research in related disciplines. The resulting catalogue will provide a means of answering, in the form of a quantitative survey, the following research questions: What makes a good digital edition? What features do digital editions share? What is the state of the art in the field of digit...
Over the last decade, museums have experienced a strong cultural shift from objectoriented toward... more Over the last decade, museums have experienced a strong cultural shift from objectoriented towards audience-oriented strategic approaches. This paper reviews the relevant literature on this transition and provides supportive evidence of the impact that social media have upon the relationship between cultural organisations and their audiences. Data deriving from the use of the British Museum’s Facebook page provides a comprehensive evaluation of the museum’s general social media strategy. Given the dominance and widespread use of Facebook and other social media, the degree of engagement of cultural organisations with them, seem to have become an inseparable factor on the scale of effectiveness of the relation with their audiences and the levels of visitor attendance. This research aims, by using one of the most prestigious museums in Britain as a case study, to provide an initial comprehensive set of insights into the use of social media by cultural organisations. The findings of thi...
The Linked Open Bibliographic Data project at UCL is developing an Open Educational Resource to e... more The Linked Open Bibliographic Data project at UCL is developing an Open Educational Resource to enable the teaching and learning of BIBFRAME, the new RDF-based framework designed to take over from MARC. A new bibliographic dataset based on BIBFRAME, which will be linked with other online datasets, has been created for that purpose. The learning resource, which will be publicly available under an open licence on completion, will allow learners to access, explore, query and update the dataset through an intuitive interface built on top of the SPARQL query language. This masterclass shares experience in converting MARC records to BIBFRAME using the Library of Congress’s conversion tools [http://bibframe.org/tools/]. More fundamentally, it provides examples of how our model for Cataloguing is changing from linking record:record to field:field. Using publication data from library academics, we’ll look at what’s new in BIBFRAME and why this matters. Finally, we’ll discuss the extent to wh...
Reports on the first stage of a project to create an Open Educational Resource for the teaching o... more Reports on the first stage of a project to create an Open Educational Resource for the teaching of new cataloguing format BIBFRAME. Collaborative creation of knowledge with students is a key aspect of the project, and this is discussed in the context of UCL's Connected Curriculum.
Gill University & Université de Montréal, 119–121. URL: <https://dh2017.adho.org/abstracts/103... more Gill University & Université de Montréal, 119–121. URL: <https://dh2017.adho.org/abstracts/103/103. pdf>. Fischer, Frank / Trilcke, Peer (2015): “Introducing dlina Corpus 15.07 (Codename: Sydney)”. dlina blog, 20 June 2015. URL: <https://dlina.github.io/Introducing-DLINA-Corpus-15-07-Codename-Sydney/>. Kittel, Christopher / Fischer, Frank (2017): “dramavis (v0.4)”. GitHub, September 2017. URL: <https:// github.com/lehkost/dramavis>. Jannidis, Fotis / Reger, Isabella / Krug, Markus / Weimer, Lukas / Macharowsky, Luisa / Puppe, Frank (2016): “Comparison of Methods for the Identification of Main Characters in German Novels”. Digital Humanities 2016: Conference Abstracts. Jagiellonian University & Pedagogical University, Kraków, 578–582. Moretti, Franco (2011): Network Theory, Plot Analysis (= Literary Lab Pamphlet 2), May 2011. URL: <http:// litlab.stanford.edu/LiteraryLabPamphlet2.pdf>. Moretti, Franco (2013): “Operationalizing”: or, the function of measurement...
PurposeThis paper presents a co-authorship study of authors who published in Digital Humanities j... more PurposeThis paper presents a co-authorship study of authors who published in Digital Humanities journals and examines the apparent influence of gender, or more specifically, the quantitatively detectable influence of gender in the networks they form.Design/methodology/approachThis study applied co-authorship network analysis. Data has been collected from three canonical Digital Humanities journals over 52 years (1966–2017) and analysed.FindingsThe results are presented as visualised networks and suggest that female scholars in Digital Humanities play more central roles and act as the main bridges of collaborative networks even though overall female authors are fewer in number than male authors in the network.Originality/valueThis is the first co-authorship network study in Digital Humanities to examine the role that gender appears to play in these co-authorship networks using statistical analysis and visualisation.
Classicists have long been at the forefront of the Digital Humanities. As is also true in mediaev... more Classicists have long been at the forefront of the Digital Humanities. As is also true in mediaeval studies, this engagement with technology is due primarily to the complexity of the primary sources under consideration and patchy and often fragmentary state of these same artefacts. The papers in this collaborative issue of Digital Medievalist continue this tradition of cutting edge technological and disciplinary work. Drawing from papers presented at the inaugural Digital Classicist Work-in-Progress seminar series in London in the Summer of 2006 and adding other specially commissioned papers, this issue provides an in-depth view of current research in many of the most important areas in the Digital Classics: text markup and electronic publication; geotagging and network analysis; semantic web/social networking technologies; visualization and relational database tools. While the papers are all written with a disciplinary focus on the Classics, the research they discuss is of obvious interest to mediaevalists, and those working in the Digital Humanities more generally.
Whether in universities, cultural heritage organizations such as museums, libraries and archives,... more Whether in universities, cultural heritage organizations such as museums, libraries and archives, commercial contexts and even in individuals' homes the application of computing to cultural heritage is transforming how the human record can be transmitted, shaped, understood, questioned and imagined. An increasingly mainstream area of academic research, in 2011 some 134 different academic courses offering Digital Humanities were identified (Spiro, 2011) and anecdotally it is clear that this number has increased since. The MA/MSc in DH in the Department of Information Studies, UCL was launched in 2010i. It is an interdisciplinary programme, exploring the intersection of digital technologies, humanities scholarship, and cultural heritage. Through it students with humanities backgrounds can develop necessary skills in digital technologies; students with technical backgrounds can develop necessary skills in humanities. It is designed to produce students capable of performing the role...
This article aims to form part of wider discussions associated with the development of the digita... more This article aims to form part of wider discussions associated with the development of the digital humanities in the Western sphere and the perceived dominance of the English language and preponderance of text-based scholarship. These discussions intend to raise questions around the lack of engagement that our field has with some geographical regions. As a case study, this article considers mainland China and asks how we might make positive steps to enable closer engagement in order to create a more global digital humanities to the benefit of us all. This study is informed by the first author's networking with Chinese digital humanities research groups and centres, as well as conference attendance in the PRC, and the experiences of the second author as a Chinese graduate student and researcher in the UK.
With many ongoing debates (Gold, 2012) and “unwritten” histories (Nyhan and Flinn, 2016), the res... more With many ongoing debates (Gold, 2012) and “unwritten” histories (Nyhan and Flinn, 2016), the research practice of the Digital Humanities (DH) has been around for 70 years. Many works have been trying to draw general conclusions of the disciplinary structure (McCarty, 2003; Gold, 2012; Terras et al., 2013; Schreibman et al., 2016; Nyhan and Flinn, 2016), and have pointed to the potential usefulness to analyse the discipline from statistical aspects. The usefulness focuses on describing the intellectual structure, scholarly interactions and disciplinary development of DH. Some studies have dedicated their attention to these matters (Grandjean, 2016; Nyhan and Duke-Williams, 2014; Quan-Haase et al., 2015; Wang and Inaba, 2009), or have focussed on one of these topics (Sugimoto et al., 2013), but few of them have engaged either with the bibliometric network method, or with the latest large-scale scholarly datasets to study the DH community as a whole. Therefore, to fill this gap, based...
Classicists have long been at the forefront of the Digital Humanities. As is also true in mediaev... more Classicists have long been at the forefront of the Digital Humanities. As is also true in mediaeval studies, this engagement with technology is due primarily to the complexity of the primary sources under consideration and patchy and often fragmentary state of these same artefacts. The papers in this collaborative issue of Digital Medievalist continue this tradition of cutting edge technological and disciplinary work. Drawing from papers presented at the inaugural Digital Classicist Work-in-Progress seminar series in London in the Summer of 2006 and adding other specially commissioned papers, this issue provides an in-depth view of current research in many of the most important areas in the Digital Classics: text markup and electronic publication; geotagging and network analysis; semantic web/social networking technologies; visualization and relational database tools. While the papers are all written with a disciplinary focus on the Classics, the research they discuss is of obvious interest to mediaevalists, and those working in the Digital Humanities more generally.
In summary, this handbook is a rewarding introduction to the topic of linked data and justifies i... more In summary, this handbook is a rewarding introduction to the topic of linked data and justifies its place on the professional''s bookshelf.
While there have been a number of publications exploring the research possibilities opened up by ... more While there have been a number of publications exploring the research possibilities opened up by digital humanities and arguing for its place in the higher education curriculum, it is not our purpose in the present chapter to contribute to this ongoing critical conversation. Instead, we wish to explore precisely what we should be teaching under the banner of "digital humanities". In the case studies that follow, we argue that this curriculum should focus on teaching students new approaches an..
Since the earliest days of hypertext, textual scholars have produced, discussed and theorised upo... more Since the earliest days of hypertext, textual scholars have produced, discussed and theorised upon critical digital editions of manuscripts, in order to investigate how digital technologies can provide another means to present and enable the interpretative study of text. This work has generally been done by looking at particular case studies or examples of critical digital editions, and, as a result, there is no overarching understanding of how digital technologies have been employed across the full range of textual interpretations. This chapter will describe the creation of a catalogue of digital editions that could collect information about extant digital editions and, in so doing, contribute to research in related disciplines. The resulting catalogue will provide a means of answering, in the form of a quantitative survey, the following research questions: What makes a good digital edition? What features do digital editions share? What is the state of the art in the field of digit...
Over the last decade, museums have experienced a strong cultural shift from objectoriented toward... more Over the last decade, museums have experienced a strong cultural shift from objectoriented towards audience-oriented strategic approaches. This paper reviews the relevant literature on this transition and provides supportive evidence of the impact that social media have upon the relationship between cultural organisations and their audiences. Data deriving from the use of the British Museum’s Facebook page provides a comprehensive evaluation of the museum’s general social media strategy. Given the dominance and widespread use of Facebook and other social media, the degree of engagement of cultural organisations with them, seem to have become an inseparable factor on the scale of effectiveness of the relation with their audiences and the levels of visitor attendance. This research aims, by using one of the most prestigious museums in Britain as a case study, to provide an initial comprehensive set of insights into the use of social media by cultural organisations. The findings of thi...
The Linked Open Bibliographic Data project at UCL is developing an Open Educational Resource to e... more The Linked Open Bibliographic Data project at UCL is developing an Open Educational Resource to enable the teaching and learning of BIBFRAME, the new RDF-based framework designed to take over from MARC. A new bibliographic dataset based on BIBFRAME, which will be linked with other online datasets, has been created for that purpose. The learning resource, which will be publicly available under an open licence on completion, will allow learners to access, explore, query and update the dataset through an intuitive interface built on top of the SPARQL query language. This masterclass shares experience in converting MARC records to BIBFRAME using the Library of Congress’s conversion tools [http://bibframe.org/tools/]. More fundamentally, it provides examples of how our model for Cataloguing is changing from linking record:record to field:field. Using publication data from library academics, we’ll look at what’s new in BIBFRAME and why this matters. Finally, we’ll discuss the extent to wh...
Reports on the first stage of a project to create an Open Educational Resource for the teaching o... more Reports on the first stage of a project to create an Open Educational Resource for the teaching of new cataloguing format BIBFRAME. Collaborative creation of knowledge with students is a key aspect of the project, and this is discussed in the context of UCL's Connected Curriculum.
Gill University & Université de Montréal, 119–121. URL: <https://dh2017.adho.org/abstracts/103... more Gill University & Université de Montréal, 119–121. URL: <https://dh2017.adho.org/abstracts/103/103. pdf>. Fischer, Frank / Trilcke, Peer (2015): “Introducing dlina Corpus 15.07 (Codename: Sydney)”. dlina blog, 20 June 2015. URL: <https://dlina.github.io/Introducing-DLINA-Corpus-15-07-Codename-Sydney/>. Kittel, Christopher / Fischer, Frank (2017): “dramavis (v0.4)”. GitHub, September 2017. URL: <https:// github.com/lehkost/dramavis>. Jannidis, Fotis / Reger, Isabella / Krug, Markus / Weimer, Lukas / Macharowsky, Luisa / Puppe, Frank (2016): “Comparison of Methods for the Identification of Main Characters in German Novels”. Digital Humanities 2016: Conference Abstracts. Jagiellonian University & Pedagogical University, Kraków, 578–582. Moretti, Franco (2011): Network Theory, Plot Analysis (= Literary Lab Pamphlet 2), May 2011. URL: <http:// litlab.stanford.edu/LiteraryLabPamphlet2.pdf>. Moretti, Franco (2013): “Operationalizing”: or, the function of measurement...
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