Digital Methods in the Humanities: Challenges, Ideas, Perspectives

Open Access Published by Bielefeld University Press 2020

Digital Methods in the Humanities

Challenges, Ideas, Perspectives

Edited by: Silke Schwandt
Funded by: SFB 1288

Volume 1 in the series Digital Humanities Research

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839454190

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Silke Schwandt is principal investigator in the collaborative research center 1288 »Practices of Comparing« and a professor of digital history at Universität Bielefeld. Her expertise lies in digital history, encompassing methods and theories of digital historical research.

Reviews

»Als eine Sammlung konkreter Berichte über die Verwendung digitaler Methoden ist dieses Buch eine gute Einführung. Hier können geisteswissenschaftliche ForscherInnen ohne direkte Erfahrungen mit digitalen Methoden inspirierende Beispiele finden.«
Oyvind Eide, Historische Zeitschrift, 316 (2023)

»Die Digital Humanities allgemein regen eine Methodenreflexionin den Geisteswissenschaften an, die abseits aller äußeren Einflüsse im intrinsischen Interesse dieser liegen sollte. Der von Silke Schwandt herausgegebene Sammelband illustriert dies anschaulich.« Kai Matuszkiewicz, MEDIENwissenschaft, 04 (2022)

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Contents Open Access Download PDF	5
Introduction Digital Humanities in Practice Silke Schwandt Open Access Download PDF	7
I. Challenges for the Humanities
Open Access, Open Data, Open Software? Proprietary Tools and Their Restrictions Helene Schlicht Open Access Download PDF	25
Navigating Disciplinary Differences in (Digital) Research Projects Through Project Management Anna Maria Neubert Open Access Download PDF	59
II. From Text to Data
From Text to Data Digitization, Text Analysis and Corpus Linguistics Patrick Jentsch and Stephan Porada Open Access Download PDF	89
III. Digital Research Perspectives from Different Humanities Disciplines
Testing Hypotheses with Dirty OCR and Web-Based Tools in Periodical Studies Malte Lorenzen Open Access Download PDF	131
Challenging the Copia Ways to a Successful Big Data Analysis of Eighteenth- Century Magazines and Treatises on Art Connoisseurship Joris Corin Heyder Open Access Download PDF	161
Text Mining, Travel Writing, and the Semantics of the Global An AntConc Analysis of Alexander von Humboldt’s Reise in die Aequinoktial-Gegenden des Neuen Kontinents Christine Peters Open Access Download PDF	185
From Serial Sources to Modeled Data Changing Perspectives on Eighteenth-Century Court Records from French Pondicherry Anna Dönecke Open Access Download PDF	217
Looking for Textual Evidence Digital Humanities, Middling-Class Morality, and the Eighteenth-Century English Novel Ralf Schneider, Marcus Hartner and Anne Lappert Open Access Download PDF	239
The Historical Semantics of Temporal Comparisons Through the Lens of Digital Humanities Promises and Pitfalls Michael Götzelmann, Kirill Postoutenko, Olga Sabelfeld and Willibald Steinmetz Open Access Download PDF	269
Authors Open Access Download PDF	309

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Bielefeld University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 312
Keywords: Digital Methods; Corpus Analysis; Visualization; Media; Science; Media History; Digital Media; Bielefeld University Press

eBook

Published: December 27, 2020
ISBN: 9783839454190