Humanities 2.0: documents, interpretation and intersubjectivity in the digital age

Abstract

With their focus on documents, interpretation and intersubjectivity, Web 2.0 technologies have surprising analogies with philosophical hermeneutics, including the theory of text interpretation. Philosophical hermeneutics was generalised from Biblical hermeneutics by Dilthey in the 19th century and chosen as an alternative to positivism as a foundation for the epistemology and methodology of the humanities and social sciences. This article explores how Web 2.0 technologies might better meet the needs of social and human sciences than traditional information technologies that are historically bound with logical positivism. Illustrations are provided from archaeology and sociology, two social and human sciences which were early adopters of punched cards and computers.

Making journal articles ‘live’: turning academic writing into scientific dialog

“…As an example, using one such existing virtual research environment, in myExperiment (http:// www.myexperiment.org) users can share ''digital research objects'' such as ''workflows'' and ''files'' to facilitate various studies by multiple different researchers (Goble et al 2010). Benel and Lejeune (2009) provides another example with experiments showing how live data addition and analysis using tag information of texts could benefit from Web 2.0. By adopting a service-oriented architecture (Foster 2005), a live data-and-methods section become services offered by interconnected servers and service chains (Friis-Christensen et al 2009).…”

TEI4LdoD: Textual Encoding and Social Editing in Web 2.0 Environments

“…We emphasize the need identied by Schlitz and Bodine (2009) to have a clear separation between content and presentation in order to simplify and empower presentation tools. With regard to a Web 2.0 for digital humanities, we are indebted to proposals on cooperative annotations by Tummarello, Morbidoni, and Pierazzo (2005) and the advantages and vision of Web 2.0 and collaboration discussed in Benel and Lejeune (2009), Fraistat and Jones (2009), and Siemens et al (2010. More recent research work raises the need to have several views of the encoding (Brüning, Henzel, and Pravida 2013).…”

'Nenhum Problema Tem Solução': Um Arquivo Digital do Livro do Desassossego

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