Browsing by Subject "Digital Humanities"

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    Alliance for Digital Humanities Organizations Digital Humanities Conference Calls for Papers 2015-2020 Collection
    (2020-05-10) Alliance for Digital Humanities Organizations
    Collection of English-language calls for papers for the Annual Digital Humanities Conference sponsored by the Alliance for Digital Humanities Organizations from 2015-2020.
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    Archive as Pedagogy: Oral History and a Journal of the Plague Year
    (SAGE Publishing, 2020-12-18) Kelly, Jason M.; Horan, John; American Studies, School of Liberal Arts
    In March 2020, the COVID-19 Oral History Project, based at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), teamed up with A Journal of the Plague Year: An Archive of COVID-19 (JOTPY), based at Arizona State University to create and curate a series of oral histories focused on the lived experience of the pandemic. Among the results of this collaboration has been a focus on research-based pedagogy and learning for undergraduate students, graduate students, and the public at large. This pedagogical emphasis has both shaped the archive and has been shaped by the process of developing the archive.
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    Mining the Indianapolis Recorder: An Exploratory Study of a Digital Humanities Dataset
    (2014-04-11) Polley, David E.; Coates, Heather L.; Johnson, Jennifer; Odell, Jere D.; Palmer, Kristi L.
    This poster presents an initial study using full-text transcripts from the Indianapolis Recorder, one of the nation's most important African American newspapers. Basic text mining and visualization approaches are used to highlight this data set and its potential for use in the digital humanities.
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    Natural Language Processing of Stories
    (2022-05) Rittichier, Kaley J.; Mukhopadhyay, Snehasis; Durresi, Arjan; Mohler, George
    In this thesis, I deal with the task of computationally processing stories with a focus on multidisciplinary ends, specifically in Digital Humanities and Cultural Analytics. In the process, I collect, clean, investigate, and predict from two datasets. The first is a dataset of 2,302 open-source literary works categorized by the time period they are set in. These works were all collected from Project Gutenberg. The classification of the time period in which the work is set was discovered by collecting and inspecting Library of Congress subject classifications, Wikipedia Categories, and literary factsheets from SparkNotes. The second is a dataset of 6,991 open-source literary works categorized by the hierarchical location the work is set in; these labels were constructed from Library of Congress subject classifications and SparkNotes factsheets. These datasets are the first of their kind and can help move forward an understanding of 1) the presentation of settings in stories and 2) the effect the settings have on our understanding of the stories.
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    Open Peer Review for Digital Humanities Projects: A Modest Proposal
    (2016-04-20) Odell, Jere D.; Pollock, Caitlin M.J.
    Promotion and tenure (P&T) values do not always align with to the practice of digital humanities in academic settings. In short, it’s just easier to measure the value of a publication in a well-known journal or a book-length monograph from a trusted university press. Articles are cited and monographs are reviewed, but digital humanities projects are a less-known product--they come in so many flavors and are disseminated by disparate channels. As a result, many digital humanists may be pressured (after investing many hours of labor in a project) to seek validation for their digital projects by writing one or more articles describing the work for traditional peer reviewed outlets. This discourages further work on the digital project, creating a culture in which the project need only be good enough to describe in an article. It also punishes the digital humanist by doubling up on their efforts to meet the bar of P&T. Without new incentive structures that digital humanists can leverage in the P&T process, the adoption of digital humanities practices will lag and the field’s experimental and boundary-testing nature will be diminished. This is a proposal for developing an incentive structure for digital humanities scholarly production.
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    Strange Fruit: The Ida B. Wells Project
    (2016-04-08) Pollock, Caitlin M.J.
    Ida B. Wells was a Black 19th century investigative reporter who launched an anti-lynching campaign, culminating in three pamphlets, Southern Horrors, A Red Record, and Mob Rule in New Orleans, revealing and demonstrating the injustice and violence of lynching culture. “The Ida B. Wells Project” seeks to transform Wells’s investigations into a digital humanities project with easy-to-navigate website with interactive components. The goal of this project is to highlight the barrier-breaking and courageous journalistic activism of Ida B. Wells by providing a tool to be used by students, researchers and teachers to shed light on this period of domestic terrorism in United States history. The project does not seek to merely digitize her works or provide a portal to her works but rather to interpret and represent her research in a 21st century format with the digitized facsimiles of her three pamphlets providing further context. “The Ida B. Wells Project” will have to overcome several challenges. One is the accessibility and availability of the three pamphlets. The other major challenge is the geocoding of places associated with lynchings described in Wells’s work. The project has already made progress by text-encoding A Red Record, geocoding and mapping the lynchings in The Red Record, and gaining access to these two pamphlets, with a travel and research materials grant funded by the IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute to view a first edition copy of Southern Horrors held by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. This poster will illustrate the challenges the project faces, the work that has already been completed, and what are the next steps for the project.