Data modeling in a digital humanities context

Flanders, Julia; Jannidis, Fotis

doi:10.4324/9781315552941-1

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“…I follow Alexander Samely (2007, 20–22, 137–144) who argues that the rabbinic literature is a conglomerate of dispersed religious, moral, and juridical statements, which cannot be read as a coherent system. To facilitate seeing through this decentralization, the EvT relies on modeling, that is, the translation of complex literary reality into a formal language processable by a computer (Flanders and Jannidis 2018, 3–5). This process is performed manually: first, the Talmudic sources speaking about SEs are standardized for quantification by partitioning them into units (isolated building blocks of text), and pieces (thematically cohesive aggregates of units).…”

Section: The Basics Of Elyonim Vetachtonimmentioning

confidence: 99%

Measuring the strength of belief in the supernatural entities in the Babylonian Talmud. A method based on the Elyonim veTachtonim project

Kosior

2023

Critical Research on Religion

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This paper offers a technique for assessing the strength of belief in the traditions involving supernatural entities (angels, demons, ghosts, and monsters) present in the Babylonian Talmud. The method is based on the appreciation of the formal features of the text (genre, language, attribution, etc.) in the theoretical and technical framework of the Elyonim veTachtonim project and allows to grade relatively the perceived reality of particular accounts. The analysis of the quantitative data shows that these are the traditions about the demons, which are usually provided in the form of pragmatic recommendations transmitted in Aramaic and featuring the Babylonian sages. This allows us to infer that the demons appeared to the final redactors (i.e., the Stammaim) as the most real among the supernatural entities: they were presented as posing real danger and as demanding adequate means of action.

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Section: The Basics Of Elyonim Vetachtonimmentioning

confidence: 99%

Measuring the strength of belief in the supernatural entities in the Babylonian Talmud. A method based on the Elyonim veTachtonim project

Kosior

2023

Critical Research on Religion

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“…As a particularly language-oriented field (or at least for some DH topics), geolinguistic factors are believed to be critical determinants of DH community formation (Flanders, 2016; Pitman and Taylor, 2017; Tello, 2017). Despite advances in the provision of, and access to, digital communication technologies, country of work remains a key determinant that influences scholarly collaboration practices and outcomes.…”

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Exploring international collaboration and language dynamics in Digital Humanities: insights from co-authorship networks in canonical journals

Gao,

Nyhan,

Duke-Williams

et al. 2023

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PurposeThis paper presents a follow-on study that quantifies geolingual markers and their apparent connection with authorship collaboration patterns in canonical Digital Humanities (DH) journals. In particular, it seeks to detect patterns in authors' countries of work and languages in co-authorship networks.Design/methodology/approachThrough an in-depth co-authorship network analysis, this study analysed bibliometric data from three canonical DH journals over a range of 52 years (1966–2017). The results are presented as visualised networks with centrality calculations.FindingsThe results suggest that while DH scholars may not collaborate as frequently as those in other disciplines, when they do so their collaborations tend to be more international than in many Science and Engineering, and Social Sciences disciplines. DH authors in some countries (e.g. Spain, Finland, Australia, Canada, and the UK) have the highest international co-author rates, while others have high national co-author rates but low international rates (e.g. Japan, the USA, and France).Originality/valueThis study is the first DH co-authorship network study that explores the apparent connection between language and collaboration patterns in DH. It contributes to ongoing debates about diversity, representation, and multilingualism in DH and academic publishing more widely.

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“…73 That software generally required data in specific forms, which initially had to be created manually. 74 Mapping was the first form of data analysis undertaken by digital historians; they initially did so using complex, expensive ArcGIS software, but the release of Google Maps in 2005 introduced the first of many easier-to-use web mapping platforms. 75 The first two winners of the AHA's Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Innovation in Digital History were data-mapping projects built on Google Maps: Digital Harlem: Everyday Life, 1915-1930 (which I created with collaborators at the University of Sydney) in 2009 and Robert C. Allen's Going to the Show in 2010.…”

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The Properties of Digital History

Robertson

2022

History and Theory

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This article offers a definition of digital history that focuses on the core affordances of the personal computer and the process by which those properties come to be exploited. I begin by outlining the two properties of computers that I argue define digital history: they process data and (as Janet H. Murray noted) provide an immersive and interactive medium. I then examine how digital historians in the United States have employed those affordances. That process has proceeded unevenly, with computers having been used as a medium before they were employed to process data, and has produced additive forms-digital archives, digital public history, data analysis published in print-that rely on existing formats rather than on the affordances of computers. While such forms are a necessary step toward a more fully realized digital history, their prevalence suggests that it will take some time for that process to play out. The final section looks to recently published and forthcoming long-form digital arguments for the direction of that development. Examples from Stanford University Press's Digital Projects series point to some of the ways that the data analysis and the immersive and interactive medium of the computer might be combined.

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Data modeling in a digital humanities context

Cited by 6 publications

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Measuring the strength of belief in the supernatural entities in the Babylonian Talmud. A method based on the Elyonim veTachtonim project

Measuring the strength of belief in the supernatural entities in the Babylonian Talmud. A method based on the Elyonim veTachtonim project

Exploring international collaboration and language dynamics in Digital Humanities: insights from co-authorship networks in canonical journals

The Properties of Digital History

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