An Introduction to Digital Humanities

D. Thiebaut

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Computer Science Dominique Thiebaut

Definition

The Digital Humanities are an area of research, teaching, and creation concerned with the intersection of computing and the disciplines of the humanities.

Developing from the fields of humanities computing, humanistic computing, and digital humanities praxis digital humanities embrace a variety of topics, from curating online collections to data mining large cultural data sets.

Digital humanities (often abbreviated DH) currently incorporate both digitized and born-digital materials and combine the methodologies from traditional humanities disciplines (such as history, philosophy, linguistics, literature, art, archaeology, music, and cultural studies) and social sciences with tools provided by computing (such as data visualisation, information retrieval, data mining, statistics, text mining) and digital publishing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_humanities

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Hand-Writing Recognition

• Nick Howe Document Binarization with Automatic Parameter Tuning, N. Howe.  To appear in International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition. DOI: 10.1007/s10032-012-0192-x. [PDF] [BibTeX]. The final publication is available at www.springerlink.com.

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Eitan Mendelowitz

• Drafting Poems http://www.aiaesthetic.com/DraftingPoems/1.mpg

• Global Proverb Project

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D. Thiebaut & L . Owens

• Visnomad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7NvQbXR_ZM

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John Bates Clark Young Economist Award

• Prof. Matthew Gentzkow (U. Chicago) wins John Bates Clark Young Economist prize (April 2014)

• Sift through huge number of newspaper articles for specific words or phrases (“death taxes”, “wildlife refuge”) to find media slant, and then compare to readership and ownership

• April 18, 2014 NPR report

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Message: Computer Scientists Needed!

http://code.org/stats

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