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Claire Clivaz deposited Digitized and Digitalized Humanities: Words and Identity in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThis paper analyses two closely related but different concepts, digitization and digitalization, first discussed in an encyclopedia article by Brennen and Kreiss in 2016. Digital Humanities mainly uses the first term, whereas business and economics tend to use the second to praise the process of the digitalization of society. But digitalization…[Read more]
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Gina Konstantopoulos deposited Inscribed Kassite Cylinder Seals in the Metropolitan Museum. in the group
Assyriologists on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoStudy of inscribed Kassite cylinder seals held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Gina Konstantopoulos deposited Through the Guts of a Beggar: Power, Authority, and the King in Old Babylonian Proverbs. in the group
Assyriologists on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoStudy of Old Babylonian Sumerian proverbs that speak on authority and how those same proverbs may subtly (or not quite so subtly) rebuke the king and established institutions of power.
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Gina Konstantopoulos deposited Shifting Alignments: the Dichotomy of Benevolent and Malevolent Demons in Mesopotamia. in the group
Assyriologists on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoA study of the nature of the udug and lama figures as seen in Mesopotamian (primarily Old Babylonian) incantations, as well as an overview of the nature of demons in Mesopotamia.
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Demmy Verbeke deposited Japanse boeken en boekenkasten. Tentoonstelling en mecenaatsdiner in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoDescription of the exhibition Japan’s Book Donation to the University of Louvain. Japanese Cultural Identity and Modernity in the 1920s.
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Gina Konstantopoulos deposited Pigs and Plaques: Considering Rm. 714 in Light of Comparative Artistic and Textual Sources in the group
Assyriologists on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoRm. 714, a first millennium B.C.E. tablet in the collections of the British Museum, is remarkable for the fine carving of a striding pig in high relief on its obverse. Purchased by Hormuzd Rassam in Baghdad in 1877, it lacks archaeological context and must be considered in light of other textual and artistic references to pigs, the closest…[Read more]
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Gina Konstantopoulos deposited The Disciplines of Geography: Constructing Space in the Ancient World in the group
Assyriologists on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThis article serves as introduction to a special double issue of the journal, comprised of seven articles that center on the theme of space and place in the ancient world. The essays examine the ways in which borders, frontiers, and the lands beyond them were created, defined, and maintained in the ancient world. They consider such themes within…[Read more]
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Johann-Mattis List deposited Towards a sustainable handling of interlinear-glossed text in language documentation in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoWhile the amount of digitally available data on the worlds’ languages is steadily increasing, with more and more languages being documented, only a small proportion of the language resources produced are sustainable. Data reuse is often difficult due to idiosyncratic formats and a negligence of standards that could help to increase the…[Read more]
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Rebecca Sutton Koeser deposited Archival Biases and Futures in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoSocial network analysis is typically used where data are complete and all connections within a system are known. However, as other humanities networking projects have discovered, building a network based on historical data means that we are inevitably working with incomplete information. In other words, the lack of connections in our graph…[Read more]
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Rebecca Sutton Koeser deposited What Do We Mean When We Say “Belfast Group”? in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoIn creating a project to investigate the relationships among members of the Belfast Group, it is important to know exactly what that Group is. Being specific about this when creating our data was critical so we could accurately measure who was connected to this thing we call “the Belfast Group.” But, as often happens with humanities data, it tur…[Read more]
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Rebecca Sutton Koeser deposited Women in the Belfast Group in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoAs we worked on this project and looked at various iterations of the data, we noticed something troubling about some of the women we knew were associated with the Belfast Group: while they sometimes appeared central to the network at other times they were completely invisible. What was happening?
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Kate Topham deposited Exploring Data Visualization with Flourish in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoVisualization is often the “way in” to our data, both for scholarly analysis and presentation to an audience. However, it is critical to understand the process of visualizing data: who is it for, and what questions does it answer? In this workshop, participants learn how to choose the right visualization for their data, how to prepare their dat…[Read more]
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Kate Topham deposited Parting the Metadata Sea: a Crosswalk to Preserve Religious Sound in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThe American Religious Sounds Project, a joint effort from Michigan State University and Ohio State University, has been gathering sound recordings of American religious life since 2014. The project is undertaking a dual process of expanding to other institutions and ingesting the collection into the Vincent Voice Library at MSU.
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Kate Topham deposited Parting the Metadata Sea: a Crosswalk to Preserve Religious Sound in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThe American Religious Sounds Project, a joint effort from Michigan State University and Ohio State University, has been gathering sound recordings of American religious life since 2014. The project is undertaking a dual process of expanding to other institutions and ingesting the collection into the Vincent Voice Library at MSU.
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Johann-Mattis List deposited CLDFBench: Give Your Cross-Linguistic Data a Lift in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoWhile the amount of cross-linguistic data is constantly increasing, most datasets produced today and in the past cannot be considered FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reproducible). To remedy this and to increase the comparability of cross-linguistic resources, it is not enough to set up standards and best practices for data to be…[Read more]
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Johann-Mattis List deposited Improving data handling and analysis in the study of rhyme patterns in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoBy reviewing a recent quantitative study of rhyme patterns in Mandarin Chinese, this study shows how data handling and data analysis in the study of rhyme patterns can be improved. Suggestions for improvement include (a) a consistent annotation of rhyme data, which is exhaustive and facilitates data reuse, and (b) emphasizes the importance of…[Read more]
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Shannan Palma deposited Entitled to a happy ending: Fairy-tale logic from “Beauty and the Beast” to the incel movement in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 5 years, 12 months agoThe author proposes fairy-tale logic as a mode of magical thinking typified by the belief that certain functions, fulfilled correctly and in the right order, lead to predictable outcomes. Mapping similarities in implicit reasoning within “Beauty and the Beast,” the reality television program Beauty and the Geek (2005-08), and the misogynistic nar…[Read more]
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Kalle Westerling started the topic Opportunity: Digital Humanities Research Institute, June 15–24, 2020 in the discussion
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 5 years, 12 months agoDo you want to become a DHRI Community Leader?
Apply now and join us from June 15-24, 2020.
You are invited to apply for the second Digital Humanities Research Institute (DHRI), which will take place at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. This ten-day institute will introduce participants to core digital humanities skills, and help…[Read more] -
Kalle Westerling started the topic Opportunity: Digital Humanities Research Institute, June 15–24, 2020 in the discussion
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 5 years, 12 months agoDo you want to become a DHRI Community Leader?
Apply now and join us from June 15-24, 2020.
You are invited to apply for the second Digital Humanities Research Institute (DHRI), which will take place at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. This ten-day institute will introduce participants to core digital humanities skills, and…[Read more]
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Ted Underwood deposited Machine Learning and Human Perspective in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 6 years agoNumbers appear to have limited value for literary study, since our discipline is usually more concerned to explore differences of interpretation than to describe the objective features of literary works. But it may be time to re-examine the assumption that numbers are only useful for objective description. Machine learning algorithms are actually…[Read more]
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