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Digital Methods in the Humanities : Challenges, Ideas, Perspectives / Silke Schwandt.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Digital Humanities Research ; 1Publisher: Bielefeld : Bielefeld University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (312 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 3839454190
  • 9783839454190
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • AZ195
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Challenges for the Humanities -- Open Access, Open Data, Open Software? -- Navigating Disciplinary Differences in (Digital) Research Projects Through Project Management -- II. From Text to Data -- From Text to Data -- III. Digital Research Perspectives from Different Humanities Disciplines -- Testing Hypotheses with Dirty OCR and Web-Based Tools in Periodical Studies -- Challenging the Copia -- Text Mining, Travel Writing, and the Semantics of the Global -- From Serial Sources to Modeled Data -- Looking for Textual Evidence -- The Historical Semantics of Temporal Comparisons Through the Lens of Digital Humanities -- Authors
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Challenges for the Humanities -- Open Access, Open Data, Open Software? -- Navigating Disciplinary Differences in (Digital) Research Projects Through Project Management -- II. From Text to Data -- From Text to Data -- III. Digital Research Perspectives from Different Humanities Disciplines -- Testing Hypotheses with Dirty OCR and Web-Based Tools in Periodical Studies -- Challenging the Copia -- Text Mining, Travel Writing, and the Semantics of the Global -- From Serial Sources to Modeled Data -- Looking for Textual Evidence -- The Historical Semantics of Temporal Comparisons Through the Lens of Digital Humanities -- Authors

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.

Funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - SFB 1288 "Practices of Comparing. Ordering and Changing the World"

In English.

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