The Hebrew Biblical corpus is composed of text of different genres. There are narrative sections, genealogical accounts, poetry, commands as to daily and seasonal ritual practices, legal systems, details of sacrifices, and instructions on how to construct the Tabernacle. The content, and often style, of each of these differs from the others, and…[Read more]

This paper introduces Spyral Notebooks, a notebook environment that extends Voyant Tools and offers a space for both notating and presenting analysis and for developing JavaScript code that extends Voyant. In the paper we present the design justifications for Spyral, showcase some of the analytical possibilities of Spyral, and address recent…[Read more]

In this presentation we discuss one approach to studying historical change in a large document archive, The Old Bailey Proceedings Online. In addition to the texts themselves, we are working with two kinds of representation. The first is a set of XML tags that were added to the trial accounts when the digital archive was created. Since these tags…[Read more]

As Mika Wusterland demonstrates, popular discourses around deepfakes are primarily concerned with the ability to create a historical event that can pass as “real” (39). Yet, as Vivian Sobchak argues, “the ‘events’ of the twentieth century are less inherently novel than the novel technologies of representations that have transformed ‘events’”…[Read more]

In this presentation, we will elaborate on the insights that have gathered from our partnership with Iter Canada towards establishing a robust ecosystem for the long-term preservation of collaborative projects in the arts and humanities. As a work in progress, planning to address the current gap in preservation research affecting a specific…[Read more]

Building on foundational research about the historical and intellectual roots of the digital research commons (Winter et al. 2020), this paper examines the Canadian HSS Commons from a DH perspective, focusing on how it will meet the needs of Canadian researchers working within the highly collaborative, methodologically diverse, and exploratory…[Read more]

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This paper investigates the relationship between quantified sentiments of award-winning novels and economic short and long-run sentiments. In an era where the value of literature is increasingly questioned in favor of quantifiable data, we use quantitative methods to…[Read more]

With Voyant Tools I studied a poetic corpus generated about the 1968 student movement and its culmination with the massacre of October 2, an important episode for the contemporary history of Mexico. Through the platform and the visualization of the information, it is possible to observe new routes of interpretation in the study of extensive sets…[Read more]

With Voyant Tools I studied a poetic corpus generated about the 1968 student movement and its culmination with the massacre of October 2, an important episode for the contemporary history of Mexico. Through the platform and the visualization of the information, it is possible to observe new routes of interpretation in the study of extensive sets…[Read more]

Over the past ten years, and due to many different reasons, we have witnessed the emergence of a global community interested in the Digital Humanities. But, what do we mean when we say ‘global’? Global and globalization belong to the same word family: the term ‘global’ refers both to the processes and to the results of globalization, and what we…[Read more]

Educational video games and their research and development became a thriving academic field in the past ten years, and by today numerous studies speak about the additional benefit of the immersion and emotional factors which they offer as added value as compared to traditional teaching. To discuss the chances and challenges of developing…[Read more]

As part of its Open Data Initiative, the Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS) at the American Philosophical Society creates publicly available datasets from library material. Our most recent project, Investigating Indentured Servitude, facilitates access to, and attempts to recover underrepresented voices from a record of over 5,000 indentured…[Read more]

As part of its Open Data Initiative, the Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS) at the American Philosophical Society creates publicly available datasets from library material. Our most recent project, Investigating Indentured Servitude, facilitates access to, and attempts to recover underrepresented voices from a record of over 5,000 indentured…[Read more]

Can studio art classes be taught online? How can students create and submit artworks online?

In 2020 spring, worldwide higher educators had to convert their classes online because of the Covid-19. The two presenters of this study had also transitioned classes to entirely online. However, they have devoted themselves to online art teaching for…[Read more]

This paper summarizes ongoing work on a project to create a database of digital images of historic bridges, each with extensive accompanying metadata and linked open data (LOD) identifiers. The database currently consists of 4800+ curated images of historic American and Canadian highway, railway and pedestrian bridges constructed between 1865 and…[Read more]

This presentation brings together and builds on previous studies of queer representation using the LGBTQ Video Game Archive and the Represent Me games database (Cole et al. 2017) in order to investigate unexplored trends and invisible queer intersections in video games. Specifically, we draw on Queer Intersections in Video Games (Mejeur 2018), a…[Read more]

An overall view of the use of personal and adverbial pronouns in a 15-c. long text in verse witten in Catalan, “Espill” by Jaume Roig. Personal and adverbial pronouns are studied by themselves as well as in combination.