Software development &amp; trans-disciplinary training at the interface of digital humanities and computer science

Laubichler, Manfred D.; Peirson, E.; Damerow, Julia

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“…The first aspect highlighted by the reports is to strengthen collaborations between humanists, RSEs and data scientists as a prerequisite for creating meaningful, critically driven and risk-assessed digital research (Peirson et al, 2016). However, to improve these partnerships, there is a need for common terminology and methodological understanding so that ‘methodological decisions can be fully explained, motivated and connected with the original research questions and interpretation of the research results’ (McGillivray et al, 2020: 15).…”

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Feasibility documents as critical structuring objects: An approach to the study of documents in digital research production

Pawlicka-Deger

2022

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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Documents have been increasingly recognised as important objects of investigation in Science and Technology Studies (STS); however, so far, much less attention has been given to the study of documents produced in Digital Humanities. The author proposes therefore to use the method of the ‘STS of documents’ and analyse Feasibility documents that aim to assess technical and design requirements based on research questions and to organise a project workflow. Drawing on the ethnography of King’s Digital Lab, the article investigates Feasibility documents produced by the lab within the Agile-based Software Development Lifecycle framework. The article aims to show that Feasibility documents (1) inform ethnographic work about lab workflow and management and in doing so, are able to capture the interconnectedness of work layers and practices; (2) enable an empirical analysis of digital research projects and the process of translation from research questions, to methods, to technical solutions; (3) are critical structuring objects that structure the research process and relationships between involved actors and are structured by local institutional strategies and decisions. The author conducts a ‘feasibility analysis’ that reveals the project management and development stages: the analytical process (the translation of research questions into technical solutions); the production process (the move from technical and design practices to research answers) and the infrastructure and management process (project workflow and sustainability solutions). Drawing on Agre’s critical technical practice and Digital Humanities’ theories of critical production, the article seeks to shift attention from end-product digital artefacts towards the complex process of their creation, which can unpack a range of social, technological and management issues. In doing so, it also aims to provide a methodological framework for the analysis of documents produced in Digital Humanities that have the potential to unearth new questions about the socio-technical nature of digital production.

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Feasibility documents as critical structuring objects: An approach to the study of documents in digital research production

Pawlicka-Deger

2022

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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Quantitative Perspectives on Fifty Years of the Journal of the History of Biology

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Abstract. Journal of the History of Biology provides a fifty-year long record for examining the evolution of the history of biology as a scholarly discipline. In this paper, we present a new dataset and preliminary quantitative analysis of the thematic content of JHB from the perspectives of geography, organisms, and thematic fields. The geographic diversity of authors whose work appears in JHB has increased steadily since 1968, but the geographic coverage of the content of JHB articles remains strongly lopsided toward the United States, United Kingdom, and western Europe and has diversified much less dramatically over time. The taxonomic diversity of organisms discussed in JHB increased steadily between 1968 and the late 1990s but declined in later years, mirroring broader patterns of diversification previously reported in the biomedical research literature. Finally, we used a combination of topic modeling and nonlinear dimensionality reduction techniques to develop a model of multi-article fields within JHB. We found evidence for directional changes in the representation of fields on multiple scales. The diversity of JHB with regard to the representation of thematic fields has increased overall, with most of that diversification occurring in recent years. Drawing on the dataset generated in the course of this analysis, as well as web services in the emerging digital history and philosophy of science ecosystem, we have developed an interactive web platform for exploring the content of JHB, and we provide a brief overview of the platform in this article. As a whole, the data and analyses presented here provide a starting-place for further critical reflection on the evolution of the history of biology over the past half-century. IntroductionIn a scathing 1990 review, the late historian of science John Farley complained that, "from its first twoissue volume in 1968, through its increase to three issues per year in 1982, until today, Journal of the History of Biology has provided an outlet for the self-perpetuating oligarchy of Darwin scholars" (Farley, 1990). "Is this healthy, I wonder?" Farley went on, "Has the profession now reached such a size that the members can afford to speak only to each other?". Farley enumerated a variety of themes and fields that, in his view, had been chronically underserved in the pages of JHB, including oceanography, ethology, botany, anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, bacteriology, and others. Worse, Farley seemed to suggest that JHB had nearly missed the social turn in the history of science, remaining fixated on "the history of biological concepts."It is worth considering the most charitable subtext of his assertions: that as the flagship periodical of the field, the contents of JHB are a window onto the diversity and the development of the history of biology. Indeed, early reviewers (e.g. Brown, 1968) hailed JHB as a signpost for the maturation of the history of biology as a distinct specialization within the history of science. The approaching quinquagenary of that first issue i...

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Illuminating Systemic Functional Grammatics (Theory) as a Viable Tool of Digital Humanities

Dalamu¹

2019

Digital Studies/Le Champ Numérique

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Software development & trans-disciplinary training at the interface of digital humanities and computer science

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Feasibility documents as critical structuring objects: An approach to the study of documents in digital research production

Feasibility documents as critical structuring objects: An approach to the study of documents in digital research production

Quantitative Perspectives on Fifty Years of the Journal of the History of Biology

Illuminating Systemic Functional Grammatics (Theory) as a Viable Tool of Digital Humanities

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