Humanities in the Digital Age

David De Roure @dder

Intersection, Scale, and Social Machines

The Humanities in the Digital Age

DIRECTOR, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD E-RESEARCH CENTRE

Porter, Bernard. 1939. Being a Map of Physics. Courtesy of Maine State Library and Mark Melnicove. In "10th Iteration (2014): The Future of Science Mapping," Places & Spaces: Mapping Science, edited by Katy Börner and Samuel Mills. http://scimaps.org

http://oxfordschoolofphotography.wordpress.com/tag/tilt-shift-photography/

▶ An Introduction to Digital Humanities  ▶ Crowdsourcing for Academic, Library and Museum Environments  ▶ Digital Approaches in Medieval and Renaissance Studies  ▶ Digital Musicology  ▶ From Text to Tech  ▶ Humanities Data: Curation, Analysis, Access, and Reuse  ▶ Leveraging the Text Encoding Initiative  ▶ Linked Data for the Humanities  

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Edwards, P. N., et al. (2013) Knowledge Infrastructures: Intellectual Frameworks and Research Challenges. Ann Arbor: Deep Blue. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/97552

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Citizen Scientists

http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/science-and-technology-committee/news/report-responsible-use-of-data/

Crossing the Boundaries of Discipline�

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23,000 hours of recorded music

Music Information Retrieval Community

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Sequence alignment

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Dan Edelstein, Robert Morrissey, and Glenn Roe, To Quote or not to Quote: Citation Strategies in the Encyclopédie. Journal of the History of Ideas , Volume 74, Number 2, April 2013 . pp. 213-236. 10.1353/jhi.2013.0012

3,610 Shared Passages Montesquieu - 681 passages •  De l'esprit des lois (1746) - 477 passages •  Considérations sur les Romains… (1734) - 173 passages Voltaire - 528 passages •  Essai sur l'histoire générale… (1756) - 415 passages Jean-Baptiste Dubos - 229 passages •  Réflexions critiques sur la poésie et sur la peinture (1719) - 227 passages René Aubert de Vertot - 122 passages •  Histoire des révolutions arrivées dans le gouvernement romain (1727) - 122 passages Antoine Arnauld & Pierre Nicole - 107 passages •  La logique, or l'art de penser (1662) - 107 passages Charles Rollin - 100 passages •  Histoire ancienne des Égyptiens (1738) - 94 passages Montaigne - 91 passages •  Les Essais (1595) - 91 passages Condillac - 91 passages •  Essai sur l'origine des connaissances humaines (1746) - 91 passages Aligned passages in the over 900 texts that predate the publication of the Encyclopédie in the ARTFL-Frantext collection, from Russell Horton, Mark Olsen, and Glenn Roe, Something Borrowed: Sequence Alignment and the Identification of Similar Passages in Large Text Collections, Digital Studies - Le Champ numérique 2 (1)

Psychology and digital technology are being combined to understand music in new ways. In the run-up to the Being Human festival, a group of students in the audience for Wagner’s epic ‘Ring Cycle’, conducted by Valery Gergiev (Birmingham Hippodrome) will take part in an intriguing experiment to monitor the sensations produced over the 16-hour cycle of four operas.

How do we really experience Wagner’s music?

http://beinghumanfestival.org/event/hearing-wagner/

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Mark d’Inverno http://goldsmiths.musiccircleproject.com/ PRAISE: Performance and pRactice Agents Inspiring Social Education

Tarte, S. Willcox, P., Glaser, H. and De Roure, D. 2015. Archetypal Narratives in Social Machines: Approaching Sociality through Prosopography. ACM Web Science 2015.

Crossing the Boundaries �of Time

Richard O’Bierne

First  Folio  Social  Machines  

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David De Roure and Pip Willcox ‘“Coniunction, with the participation of Society”: Citizens, Scale, and

Scholarly Social Machines’ Beyond the PDF: Born-Digital Humanities, Boston, 27–28 April 2015

Pip Willcox

Digital  Material  Pip Willcox

Elizabeth Williamson

A computationally-enabled sense-making network of expertise, data, software,

models and narratives

Big Data, in a�Big Data Centre

Same quest, with some new methods Doing things in new ways Doing entirely new things Social as well as digital Intersection, Scale, and Social Machines

Humanities can benefit from �scholarship in other disciplines Can other disciplines benefit from �scholarship in the humanities? For discussion at the closing panel

[email protected] @dder

Thanks to Christine Borgman, Chris Lintott, Richard O’Bierne, Glenn Roe, Ségolène Tarte, Pip Willcox; CofK, FAST, FORCE11, SOCIAM, Transforming Musicology; AHRC, EPSRC, ESRC, JISC, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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