What’s Under the Big Tent?: A Study of ADHO Conference Abstracts

Citational politics: Quantifying the influence of gender on citation in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities

“…of Science database published between 2008 and 2012 demonstrated that 'articles with women in dominant author positions receive fewer citations than those with men in the same positions' (Larivière et al, 2013, n.p.). Weingart and Eichmann-Kalwara's (2017) careful analysis of abstracts submitted for the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) annual conference 2 has prompted the international scholarly community to consider how selections for this conference construct particular boundaries in digital humanities scholarship. Weingart and Eichmann's work, which examines submitters' country of origin, gender, home discipline, language, topic of presentation, and other identifiers, is part of a growing trend of citation analysis in digital humanities, which has made an important intervention in scholarly communications.…”

“…Over the last 10 years, scholars have expanded investigations of community and scholarship. 3 For example, Weingart and Eichmann-Kalwara (2017) and Pino-Díaz and Fiormonte (2018) focus on conference participation; Nyhan and Duke-Williams (2014), Gao et al (2018), and de la Cruz et al (2015) examine authorship networks; and Palermo (2017) and Leydesdorff and Alkim Almila (2010) consider citation patterns. This foundational work offers better understanding of community formation, yet there remains room for expanded investigation of the dominant trends in citational practice within digital humanities, particularly around gender.…”

Digital humanities as a cross‐disciplinary battleground: An examination of inscriptions in journal publications

“…This work analyzed papers published in both representative DH and visualization journals and classified data visualization techniques based on their supports for either close or distant reading of texts. Weingart and Eichmann‐Kalwara (2017) further went beyond the textual data visualization and empirically demonstrated the increasing scholarly attention to visualization by analyzing abstracts published at the DH conferences from 2004 to 2015.…”

The Digital Humanities in Ireland

“…Fitzpatrick and Ramsay, writing at that critical moment when DH was truly in a state of expansion, aptly express the field's central tension: there is no one digital humanities, and everyone will have their own interpretation of what being a "DHer" entails. Evidence for this dissonance-and the digital humanities are dissonant (O'Sullivan 2018b)-can be found in the great many disciplines that coalesce around DH gatherings (Weingart and Eichmann-Kalwara 2017) and in movements like O'Sullivan: The Digital Humanities in Ireland Art. 11, page 3 of 31 #myDHis, which saw scholars and practitioners across the DH world take to social media to offer their own personal definitions of the field.…”

“…An example of such research would be authorship attribution, wherein documents are statistically clustered by their stylistic proximity; for an illustrative example, see "Measuring Joycean Influences on Flann O'Brien" (O'Sullivan et al 2018). While DH means a lot of different things to a lot of different people, text mining is a major part of what lies under the so-called "big tent" (Weingart and Eichmann-Kalwara 2017). Yet, the history of DH in Ireland is one in which high-profile cases of such research activities are a rarity.…”