Published by Bielefeld University Press

Digital Humanities Research

Edited by: Silke Schwandt and Tobias Hodel

ISSN: 2749-1986

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Geographical Research in the Digital Humanities

Spatial Concepts, Approaches and Methods

Finn Dammann, Dominik Kremer

Volume 8 in this series

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The richness of social and cultural theory in the humanities offers countless opportunities for using theory-informed concepts in data-based analysis workflows. The contributors to this volume thus encourage further research utilizing out-of-the-box models and approaches to space and place in the field of Digital Humanities. The collection follows the two complementary goals of providing promising conceptualisations of space and place for a broad audience from Digital Humanities, and of presenting current work in Digital Humanities using different conceptualisations of space and place or offering innovative methods for their analysis.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783839469187
ISBN:: 9783839469187
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Sociology
Subject:: History of Sociology
Publisher:: Bielefeld University Press

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Mixing Methods

Practical Insights from the Humanities in the Digital Age

Birgit Schneider, Beate Löffler, Tino Mager, Carola Hein

Volume 7 in this series

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The digital transformation is accompanied by two simultaneous processes: digital humanities challenging the humanities, their theories, methodologies and disciplinary identities and pushing computer science to get involved in new fields. But how can qualitative and quantitative methods be usefully combined in one research project? What are the theoretical and methodological principles across all disciplinary digital approaches? This volume focusses on driving innovation and conceptualising the humanities in the 21st century. Building on the results of 10 research projects, it serves as a useful tool for designing cutting-edge research that goes beyond conventional strategies.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783839469132
ISBN:: 9783839469132
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Exile History
Publisher:: Bielefeld University Press

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Emotional Imprints of War

A Computer-Assisted Analysis of Emotions in Dutch Parliamentary Debates, 1945-1989

Milan van Lange

Volume 6 in this series

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Historical research can be enhanced by methods and resources from various disciplines, ranging from psychology to computer linguistics. With a creative and innovative perspective on ›things we think we know‹, Milan van Lange presents a computer-assisted historical investigation into the role of emotions in dealing with consequences of World War II in the Netherlands. By ›emotion mining‹ digitised sources, van Lange shows where emotions were present and how they were expressed and discussed in the political engagement with people who experienced long-term effects of the war, such as former collaborators and war criminals, the resistance, and war victims.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839464854
ISBN:: 9783839464854
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Exile History
Publisher:: Bielefeld University Press

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The Notion of »holy« in Ancient Armenian Texts from the Fifth Century CE

A Comparative Approach Using Digital Tools and Methods

Thomas Jurczyk, Universität Bielefeld

Volume 5 in this series

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Religious studies have long discussed the comparative notion of »holy« beyond religious, cultural, and linguistic boundaries. In this book, Thomas Jurczyk conducts a diachronic comparison of the meaning and application of two notions and their related word fields that are commonly associated with a broader comparative notion of holy, namely the Ancient Armenian term »surb« and its related words and the English word field associated with »holy«. To compare these two semantic fields, his methodological approach operates on the principle of distributional semantics and applies, among others, tools and methods from the field of corpus linguistics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839461815
ISBN:: 9783839461815
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: History of Religion
Publisher:: Bielefeld University Press

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The Novel in the Spanish Silver Age

A Digital Analysis of Genre Using Machine Learning

José Calvo Tello, Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld University Press

Volume 4 in this series

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What distinguishes an adventure novel from a historical novel? Can the same text belong to several genres? More to one than to another? Have some existing genres been overlooked? To answer these and similar questions, José Calvo Tello combines methods from Linguistics (lexicography), Literary Studies (genre theory), and Computer Science (machine learning, natural language processing). Located in the interdisciplinary field of Digital Humanities, this study analyzes a newly developed corpus of 358 Spanish novels of the silver age (1880-1939), which includes authors like Baroja, Pardo Bazán, or Valle-Inclán. Calvo Tello's key result is a graph-based model of literary genre that reconciles recent theoretical approaches.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839459256
ISBN:: 9783839459256
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Publisher:: Bielefeld University Press

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Digitale Editionen im Spannungsfeld des Medienwechsels

Analysen und Lösungsstrategien aus Sicht der Informatik

Andreas Oberhoff, Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld University Press

Volume 3 in this series

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Im Spannungsfeld des Medienwechsels von der gedruckten zur digitalen Edition wirken komplexe und oft konfligierende Kräfte. Aus der Perspektive der Informatik identifiziert Andreas Oberhoff die Ursprünge und Wechselwirkungen dieser Kräfte, präzisiert sie als wesentliche Konflikte und analysiert sie systematisierend durch Adaption etablierter Konzepte. Gestützt auf diese theoretischen Erkenntnisse leitet er technische Anforderungen an moderne Editionsinfrastrukturen ab, entwickelt innovative Konfliktlösungsstrategien (u.a. mit Hilfe von Blockchain-Technologien) und stellt auf Basis der Revisionssicherheit erstmals eine Methodik für die bewertende Einordnung dieses austarierenden Technikeinsatzes bereit.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839459058
ISBN:: 9783839459058
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Sociology
Subject:: Culture
Publisher:: Bielefeld University Press

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Archives, Access and Artificial Intelligence

Working with Born-Digital and Digitized Archival Collections

Lise Jaillant, Universität Bern, Loughborough University

Volume 2 in this series

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Digital archives are transforming the Humanities and the Sciences. Digitised collections of newspapers and books have pushed scholars to develop new, data-rich methods. Born-digital archives are now better preserved and managed thanks to the development of open-access and commercial software. Digital Humanities have moved from the fringe to the centre of academia. Yet, the path from the appraisal of records to their analysis is far from smooth. This book explores crossovers between various disciplines to improve the discoverability, accessibility, and use of born-digital archives and other cultural assets.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839455845
ISBN:: 9783839455845
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Sociology
Subject:: Culture
Publisher:: Bielefeld University Press

Book Open Access 2020

Digital Methods in the Humanities

Challenges, Ideas, Perspectives

Silke Schwandt, SFB 1288

Volume 1 in this series

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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.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839454190
ISBN:: 9783839454190
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Exile History
Publisher:: Bielefeld University Press