The Digital Humanities Cycle: Doing Digital History Iteratively DH Benelux, June 8-9, 2015, Antwerp Jesper Verhoef & Melvin Wevers Translantis Project, Utrecht University Digital Humanities Approaches to Reference Cultures: The Emergence of the United States in Dutch Public Discourse between 1890 - 1990 1
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The Digital Humanities Cycle: Doing Digital History Iteratively
DH Benelux, June 8-9, 2015, Antwerp
Jesper Verhoef & Melvin WeversTranslantis Project, Utrecht University
Digital Humanities Approaches to Reference Cultures: The Emergence of the United States in Dutch Public Discourse between 1890 - 1990 1
Digital History Cycle
● Heuristics: Searching
● Hermeneutics: Analyzing
● Tool criticism: Understanding how
a tool works
● Corpus faceting: Pre-processing
of data
● Source Criticism: Critical
evaluation of historical sources
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Question-Driven Use of Tools
● How was America represented in debates on portable radios?
● How has the geographic connotation of the cigarette shifted between 1920 and 1940? 3
Directed Searching
● Full-Text Searching
● N-Gram Analysis
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Full-text searching
Traditional research Full-text Search
Source: Bob Nicholson, ‘The digital turn. Exploring the methodological possibilities of digital newspaper archives’, Media History 19.1 (2013) 66-67.
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N-gram analysis
Source: KB N-gram viewer. http://kbkranten.politicalmashup.nl/#q/transistorradio|transistor radio|transistor-radio|portable radio|draagbare radio. Visited on May 30, 2015.
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Topic Modeling
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Topic Modeling
Prize
Theft
Amerika
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Topic Modeling - Advertisements 1924-1929
sigaret virginia whip chief ardath london goud cigarettes kwaliteit olympia kurk nummer rook beste gezondheid zoo zulk vooraan punten
sigaret sigaar pijp beter smakelijker wybert amersfoort virginia houbaer tabletten rooken oudste prijs magnums hollands nasmaak cent nemen noch