Digital Tools, Trends and Methodologies in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Digital Tools, Trends and Methodologies for the Social

Sciences and HumanitiesConceptualising a Diverse Field

5 October 2015 Shawn Day

DH@TheLibrary

Background‣ Who Am I? ‣ Why Am I presenting this seminar? ‣ Where am I?: qubdh.uk

Agenda‣ What is the significance of the Digital ? ‣ Where? ‣ Areas of Interest ‣ Trends ‣ Projects ‣ Keeping in Touch

Where Do You Come From? What Question Brings You Here Today?

Do Social Scientists ask the same Questions that Humanities Scholars do?

Objective1. Inspire as opposed to impose rigour on the Digital in

the Humanities and Social Sciences a. as an approach b. a discipline c. school of thought d. any sense of a cohesive whole

2. But instead to appreciate and to see how it may inform direction in your own research

How would you define Digital Humanities?

What is Digital Humanities - Josh Honn1. Humanistic scholarship presented in digital forms 2. Humanistic scholarship enabled by digital methods and

tools 3. Humanistic scholarship about digital technology and

culture 4. Humanistic scholarship building and experimenting

with digital technology 5. Humanistic scholarship critical of its own digital-ness

“The **moral** role of Digital Humanities in a data-driven world”

- Scott Wiegart

The Shape of Digital Scholarship

Digital Repository of Tools (DiRT) (dirtdirectory.org)

A Different Approach‣ What do you want to do? ‣ What have you got to work with?

‣ With the one caveat/note —> It’s all data!

Concepts and Processes‣ Analyze data ‣ Interpret data ‣ Annotate ‣ Model data ‣ Archive data ‣ Analyze networks between my data ‣ Capture information ‣ Organize data ‣ Clean up data ‣ Preserve data ‣ Collaborate ‣ Program ‣ Comment ‣ Publish ‣ Communicate ‣ Record audio/video ‣ Analyze the content of my data ‣ Analyze relationships between pieces of data ‣ Contextualize data ‣ Share ‣ Convert files

‣ Analyze the geographical aspect of my data ‣ Create ‣ Store data ‣ Crowdsource data enrichment/analysis ‣ Analyze the structure of my data ‣ Design ‣ Analyze the stylistics of my data ‣ Find information ‣ Theorize ‣ Disseminate data ‣ Transcribe audio, video or manuscripts ‣ Add markup to an object ‣ Translate ‣ Enrich metadata about an object ‣ Visualize data ‣ Collect information ‣ Build a website ‣ Add identifiers to data ‣ Write

All the Tools Fit to Recommend

Digging Deeper in DiRT

But there’s Something Bigger Happening Here‣ It’s Called TaDIRAH ‣ Taxonomy of Digital Research Activities in the Humanities

Aspects of the taxonomy‣ Activities ‣ Objects ‣ Techniques

DHO:DRAPieR

What’s At Queen’s for Example

What’s At Queen’s for Example

How a typical Digital Project Works

Stuff Services Use

Files Metadata

ClassificationData

Processing Database Analysis,

etc.

Display Search

Interaction VRE

DH MakerBus● Making culture and education

● Makerspaces in libraries

● Gamification

● Democratizing technology and mobilizing knowledge

● Art, craft, and design

● Digital humanities and the future of learning

● Digital literacy

● Cultural heritage management and the maker movement

● The use of digital tools for preservation of texts and objects

● Co-working, crowd-funding, and collaboration

The Shape of Digital Humanities

Melissa Terras DH Survey 2011

From Melissa Terras’ blog: http://melissaterras.blogspot.ie/2011/11/stats-

Terras: DH Centres

From http://melissaterras.blogspot.ie/

Terras: Quantifying DH

From http://melissaterras.blogspot.ie/

Terras: Accessing DH Resources

From http://melissaterras.blogspot.ie/

Terras: Investment

From http://melissaterras.blogspot.ie/

2012/01/infographic-quanitifying-digital.html

Terras: Growth of DH

From http://melissaterras.blogspot.ie/

Around DH in 80 Days‣ Global ‣ Multidisciplinary ‣ Multilanguage ‣ Transparent - List - Github Jekyll

Around DH in 80 Days

Case StudyExploring the ‘ordinary’ lives of rural pioneers/farmers in

nineteenth century Ontario

Canada

Ontario

South Western Ontario

Farm Journal Raw Materials‣ 100s of pages ‣ Varying hands ‣ Varying quality ‣ Columns ‣ No Context

Medical Diary

HistoryFlow

Processing1. Digitisation 2. Text Capture 3. Quality Control 4. Generate word frequency (Voyant, TAPoR) 5. Entity Recognition and Tagging 6. Isolate known farm activities (NLP - LanguageWare) 7. Collocate to link activity references to time, duration,

and resources (Voyant)

TaDIRAH: Digitisation

TaDIRAH: Text Capture and Quality Control

jEdit and oxyGEN

Word Frequency Analysis

Voyant Tools

Entity Recognition and Analysis

OpenCalais

Visualising the Results

Illustrator

Results - New Patterns1. Less time haying 2. The impact of

technology 3. More tasks faster

Value of the Exercise1. Easier to compare over intervals; 2. Multiple vectors with greater granularity in a

compressed space; 3. The challenge is to find rich enough source materials

to yield substantive datasets.

Areas of Interest‣ Digital History ‣ Digital Literary Studies ‣ Digital Public Humanities ‣ Citizen Science

Projects of NoteA Random Survey

Programming Historian

Yale Photogrammar‣ Photogrammar is a web-based platform for organizing,

searching, and visualizing the 170,000 photographs from 1935 to 1945 created by the United States Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information (FSA-OWI).

Yale Photogrammar

Yale Photogrammar

Yale Photogrammar

DHO:Discovery

Europeana

Europeana enables people to explore the digital

resources of Europe's galleries,

museums, libraries, archives and audiovisual

collections.

Republic of Letters - Pallad.io

Republic of Letters - Pallad.io

AHRC ICT Methods

arts-humanities.net

Corpus of Electronic Texts

Transcribe Bentham

HistoryPin

What Was There?

Conflict and Politics in NI

Rome Reborn 2.0

Voyant - Text Analysis

TAPoR - Text Analysis Portal for Research

Cool Tools from the RRCNMH

Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use application to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources.

Designed for cultural institutions, enthusiasts, and educators, Omeka is a platform for publishing online collections and exhibitions.

Omeka.net is a hosted service for your own Omeka collections, research, exhibits, and digital projects.

Short for “The Humanities and Technology Camp," THATCamp is a BarCamp-style, user-generated “unconference” on digital humanities.

Scripto is a free, open source tool that enables community transcriptions of document and multimedia files.

PressForward pioneers new methods to capture and highlight orphaned or underappreciated scholarship and share it with dh across the web.

ScholarpressManage your class, publish research, or collaborate on a conference presentation with this hub for scholarly & educational plugins

Anthologize is a free, open-source, plugin that transforms WordPress into a platform for publishing electronic texts.

Survey BuilderBuild online surveys that are especially applicable to oral histories.

Timeline Builder CHNM Labs: Easily create and manage a timeline of historical events for your website.

Serendip-o-matic connects your

sources to digital materials located in libraries, museums,

and archives around the world.

Web Scrapbook Store all kinds of media items — URLs, images, text, and movies — & collaborate thru the CHNM online scrapbook.

NeatLine

DH on the Island of Ireland

DARIAH

Digital Repository of Ireland

How to Keep in Touch with the Field‣ Twitter ‣ Humanist - Over 25 years ‣ Prof Hacker ‣ Global Outlook: DH

Upcoming Seminars and Workshops‣ 12 October / AHS7001 Digital Transformation of Research ‣ 19 October / Space and Time Tools for Innovation ‣ 9 November / Google Tools for Scholars ‣ 23 November / Data Visualisation for the Humanities ‣ 27 November / AHS7001 Digital Transformation of Research ‣ 7 December / Digital Project Management for Scholars

Thank YouShawn Day @iridium

s.day@qub.ac.uk 18.0G.006A 18 University Square

http://qubdh.uk