Modelling in digital humanities: Signs in context

Ciula, Arianna; Eide, Øyvind

doi:10.1093/llc/fqw045

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“…By modelling I intend mainly the creation and manipulation of external representations, encompassing the whole spectrum of what Bradley (2015) calls tools for making, for exploring and for thinking. Building on previous co-authored research (Ciula and Eide 2014, Ciula and Marras 2016, Ciula and Eide 2017, what I claim in this paper is that modelling can be considered both a meaning-making practice and a strategy to exercise individual and collective (active) memory. To substantiate my claim I chose to focus on textuality -hence on the sociology of the textual condition and the engagement with the digital as an ongoing "repurposing of the work of the past" ( Our tools for memory are many and various.…”

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Digital humanities and practical memory: modelling textuality

Ciula

2017

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“…This relation is determined by the context of a theory as well as by the purpose of the specific act of modelling. For more details on the application of this framework to modelling in Digital Humanities see (Ciula and Marras 2016;Ciula and Eide 2017).…”

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Digital humanities and practical memory: modelling textuality

Ciula

2017

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“…7 For what concerns Textual Criticism, particular attention is devoted to modelling in Unsworth (2002) and Pierazzo (2015). 8 The aim here is the creation of a 'model for production' (Eide 2014:15), and the model in use is a 'metaphorlike model' (Ciula and Eide 2017). 9 The model, highly interpretative, can be used with profit together with facsimiles of the images, more and more common in the digital panorama, or might be expanded to take into account the context (or, better, the co-text) of each reading.…”

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Exercises in modelling: textual variants

Spadini

2019

Int J Digit Humanities

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The article presents a model for annotating textual variants. The annotations made can be queried in order to analyse and find patterns in textual variation. The model is flexible, allowing scholars to set the boundaries of the readings, to nest or concatenate variation sites, and to annotate each pair of readings; furthermore, it organizes the characteristics of the variants in features of the readings and features of the variation. After presenting the conceptual model and its applications in a number of case studies, this article introduces two implementations in logical models: namely, a relational database schema and an OWL 2 ontology. While the scope of this article is a specific issue in textual criticism, its broader focus is on how data is structured and visualized in digital scholarly editing.

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“…This model-building process is especially relevant when working with information about our past, in which this gap is usually larger. For these reasons, several authors have recently pointed out how relevant models are in the humanities, and identified improvement and evaluation research needs [2,3]. Thus, conceptual modelling techniques have been emerged as a theoretical valid and practical way to represent humanistic knowledge.…”

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Conceptualization and Non-Relational Implementation of Ontological and Epistemic Vagueness of Information in Digital Humanities

Martín-Rodilla

González-Pérez

2019

Informatics

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Research in the digital humanities often involves vague information, either because our objects of study lack clearly defined boundaries, or because our knowledge about them is incomplete or hypothetical, which is especially true in disciplines about our past (such as history, archaeology, and classical studies). Most techniques used to represent data vagueness emerged from natural sciences, and lack the expressiveness that would be ideal for humanistic contexts. Building on previous work, we present here a conceptual framework based on the ConML modelling language for the expression of information vagueness in digital humanities. In addition, we propose an implementation on non-relational data stores, which are becoming popular within the digital humanities. Having clear implementation guidelines allow us to employ search engines or big data systems (commonly implemented using non-relational approaches) to handle the vague aspects of information. The proposed implementation guidelines have been validated in practice, and show how we can query a vagueness-aware system without a large penalty in analytical and processing power.

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Modelling in digital humanities: Signs in context

Cited by 29 publications

References 21 publications

Digital humanities and practical memory: modelling textuality

Digital humanities and practical memory: modelling textuality

Exercises in modelling: textual variants

Conceptualization and Non-Relational Implementation of Ontological and Epistemic Vagueness of Information in Digital Humanities

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