Digital Humanities

One of the biggest challenges of antiracist education is moving beyond critique to transformative practices, policies and discourses against racism (Dei, 2006). In light of the rise of ubiquitous digital mobile technologies and digital learning (Liu, 2012) there is a need for antiracist advocates and educators to find new methodologies for understanding and combating racisms and engaging antiracism practices. I propose looking at the methodological opportunity of these very digital social technologies for antiracist education. Specifically, I suggest the methodological possibilities of mobile app (application) technologies as they interact, interconnect and interrupt social life in the everyday. Drawing on Stanley’s (2011; 2014) framework for understanding racisms and antiracisms, I engage how this framework can articulate with the methodologies of app technologies through flagging (Billig, 1995), revealing the organization of spaces and the inclusion of excluded narratives and knowledges. I reflect on the opening of such a methodological dialogue for furthering antiracist education in the age of the internet, smartphones, and the prominence of the digital in everyday life.

There is a thriving trade, and collector community, around human remains that is facilitated by posts on new social media such as Instagram, Facebook, Etsy, and, until recently, eBay. In this article, we examine several thousand Instagram posts and perform some initial text analysis on the language and rhetoric of these posts to understand something about the function of this community, what they value and how they trade, buy, and sell, human remains. Our results indicate a well-connected network of collectors and dealers both specialist and generalist, with a surprisingly wide-reaching impact on the 'enthusiasts' who, through their rhetoric, support the activities of this collecting community, in the face of legal and ethical issues generated by its existence.

""La lingüística en España" es una contribución a la historia de la lingüística, en la nueva y atractiva vertiente de las memorias personales. Consta de 24 relatos o autobiografías intelectuales de lingüistas sobresalientes, en las que describen su formación y las causas que les condujeron a la lingüística. Permiten comprender mejor el mérito de sus tareas y aportaciones. También tienden un puente entre los orígenes de la lingüística en España y el panorama actual.
La obra presenta la historia como vivencia y reflexión, combina memorias personales, debates profesionales y manifiestos por una lingüística futura. Al mismo tiempo, identifica facetas de la sociedad en la que se han desarrollado esas trayectorias vitales. La escritura del yo produce de este modo un efecto sorprendente, porque trasciende la esfera del autor y plasma un panorama variado y contrastado de la lingüística contemporánea.""

Esiste un problema di fondo: il termine informatico che dovrebbe condurre all'identificazione di un determinato tipo di scienziato viene spesso scambiato, anche da persone 'apparentemente evolute', quale tecnico dei
computer.
Sarebbe come ritenere, ad esempio, che un  archeologo è colui che si limita a manovrare pale, picconi, zappe, carriole, secchi, palette, scopette, spazzole e cazzuole.
E chi dovrebbe essere, quindi, a discutere di questioni 'archeologiche'? Tornando al mio stretto ambito sarebbe come mescolare ruoli e competenze di un Steven Paul Jobs con un Richard Stallman...

The research illustrates multiple experiences and strategies adopted in museums and in the world of cultural heritage in the field of digital storytelling to guide the future design of narrative digital solutions. Its aim is to provide as complete a picture as possible of the different solutions set in this specific sector of the field of cultural communication, their uses, and the accessibility of culture. It identifies and analyzes 14 types of digital storytelling: oral, written, video, visual, animated, interactive, Immersive, Social Media Storytelling, Participative, Generative, Geo–Storytelling, Multimedia Mobile Storytelling, Crossmedia and Transmedial storytelling. Finally, a new vision of the museum is proposed in which, beginning with the antiquarian and nineteenth–century vision of museum collections, develops into what should be defined as a connected museum or museum of connected narration.

Data Dating is a collection of ten academic essays accompanied by works of media art that provide a comprehensive insight into the construction of love and its practices in the time of digitally mediated relationships. The essays come from recognized researchers in the field of media and cultural studies.

INTRODUCTION
Introduction: Dating (the) Data and Other Intimacies
Ania Malinowska and Valentina Peri

1. WIRED LIMERENCE (feat. Deep Love by Antoine Schmitt)
Technology, Commerce and the Intimacy Revolution
Lauren Rosewarne

2. LOVE INFO-STRUCTURES (feat. Glaciers by Zach Gage)
Romance in a Time of Dark Data
Lee McKinnon

3. MEDIATED MATCHMAKING (feat. A Truly Magical Moment by Adam Basanta)
Fast Love. Temporalities of Digitized Togetherness
Ania Malinowska

4. EMOTIONS WITH THE MACHINE (feat. Ashley Madison Angels at Work by !Mediengruppe Bitnik)
‘Emotoys’: Ethics, Emotions and Empathic Technologies
Andrew McStay and Gilad Rosner

5. SELF-FASHIONING DESIRE (feat. Kill Your Darlings by Jeroen van Loon)
The Greatest Love of All: Recognition, Self-Love and the Imaging of Desire
Derek Conrad Murray

6. DIGITAL ONSCENITIES (feat. Peeping Tom (Porn Version) by Thomas Israel)
The New Onscenity. Navigating Digital Desires in the Twenty First Century Pornoscape
Lynn Comella

7. LIBIDINAL TECHNO-SCAPES (Webcam Venus by Addie Wagenknecht and Pablo Garcia)
The Proxemics of Digital Intimacy
Kyle Machulis

8. TOUCHLESS EMBRACES (feat. VR Hug by Tom Galle and Moises Sanabria)
Virtual Hugs and the Crises of Touch
David Parisi

9. SOUNDS OF FEELING (feat. Digital Synaesthetic E.E.G. Kiss by Karen Lancel and Hermen Maat)
I Can Hear Your Feelings
Andrew Blanton

10. INTERFACES OF EMOTIONAL SURVEILLANCE (feat. Face Messenger by Tom Galle and John Yuyi)
Timestamp Anxieties
Kristin Veel and Nanna Bonde Thylstrup

L’aumento dei canali di contatto e di comunicazione ha, per un museo, effetti anche di natura strettamente commerciale: l’aumento dell’utenza potenziale e, dunque, della domanda potenziale, può rendere il museo un ‘prodotto’ commercialmente più appetibile dal punto di vista degli investimenti o delle sponsorizzazioni, una ulteriore occasione per i finanziatori di pubblicizzare il proprio marchio o la propria azienda. Attraverso un'analisi 'empirica' dell'utenza remota di alcuni siti web museali italiani e stranieri a confronto, si analizzano criticità e potenzialità dell'uso del web per queste istituzioni museali.

In epoca di Big Data, AI e automation marketing le aziende riscoprono una cultura di progetto che si basa sul pensiero creativo e su una prassi di lavoro fondata su empatia, condivisione e inter-disciplinarietà.
Il DESIGN THINKING si candida quale strumento utile a pianificare scenari che sappiano cavalcare il cambiamento e che sviluppino progetti efficaci sul mercato. E soprattutto apre le porte delle aziende proprio a chi vanta una preparazione in digital humanities. Il DT insegna a mediare tra saperi diversi e metterli in relazione con creatività, utilizzando in modo nuovo gli strumenti digitali per trovare una soluzione a problemi e bisogni reali.
 Il Design Thinking è visto oggi come il metodo più promettente per sviluppare innovazione, aiutare le aziende a risolvere problemi organizzativi interni, accompagnare la progettazione e il lancio di un prodotto o di una start up.

This book chapter, published as part of the edited volume "Empirical Comics Research (Routledge, 2018), puts forward a quantitative approach to the study of comics by introducing a stylistic analysis of a corpus of around 240 graphic novels, graphic memoirs and other non-fiction.

"In recent projects I have used flip cameras with participants from ethnic minority communities who were recording their experience of adult learning as enrichment. In another project we used more expensive cameras in a health setting in order to examine what the priorities were for service users. The footage has had multiple benefits and we continue to develop the use of visual technologies and methodologies:

• to empower and support the participation of service users and clients;
• to provide evidence and documentation of outputs and project delivery;
• to support the creative personalization of service delivery;
• to inform project evaluation;
• to demonstrate accountability;
• to improve the accessibility and awareness of services;
• to influence policy and strategic development options;
• to foster dialogue between groups of people - both vertical (client to manager) and horizontal (client to service user)

The main body of this short paper evaluates eighteen benefits or advantages associated with auto-ethnographic methodology"

An experiment in distant reading on the texts that tell the myth of Procne and Philomela in classical Latin literature and on the section of book VI of Ovid's Metamorphoses telling the story, in comparison with the whole of the Metamorphoses and the whole of classical Latin literature.

The following is a general guideline for creating digital collections and working with early Indiana documents. Once you decided to digitize a manuscript collection and created a plan, there are ways you can enhance your collection. 1. Taking the time to learn how to read historical handwriting and manuscript collections. 2. Conducting extensive research on the collection. 3. Carefully selecting your collection’s metadata. 4. Promoting your collection once it is live. While explaining the steps, I incorporate examples from my experience reading, researching, inputting metadata, and uploading documents from the New Harmony Collections for the Indiana State Library.

El desarrollo, a lo largo de la segunda mitad del siglo XX, de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación ha transformado profundamente la sociedad, la academia y las formas de generación de conocimiento. El indiscutible impacto social de este fenómeno ha modificado significativamente las ciencias sociales y las humanidades, las cuales viven un tiempo de redefinición, cuestionamiento y puesta en valor en un contexto social cada vez más hiperconectado.

Ello ha motivado el desarrollo de múltiples propuestas conceptuales que se han  tratado de recoger, en este volumen, bajo la denominación de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Digitales, queriendo abarcar una doble vía de reflexión,  la que se desarrolla, por un lado, bajo las Humanidades Digitales y, por otro, bajo la e-Research.

El libro pretende contribuir a mostrar las formas en las que las humanidades y las ciencias sociales  en el contexto hispano están enfrentando un cambio de paradigma cultural motivado por la irrupción de las tecnologías digitales. Su objetivo es promover este tipo de investigación y visibilizar su comunidad de investigadores.

El libro comienza con un capítulo introductorio sobre las Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Digitales y se estructura en tres bloques. El primero, “Investigaciones en torno al estado de la cuestión de las Humanidades Digitales y la e-Research” comprende tres capítulos en los que se aborda una panorámica de las Humanidades Digitales y de la e-Research en el contexto hispano.

El segundo bloque “Potenciales usos de Internet y de la Web social para la investigación en ciencias sociales y humanidades” incluye, aportaciones que van desde los métodos (Big Data o Webmetría) hasta el análisis de fenómenos digitales (iniciativas P2P) pasando por algunas reseñas de proyectos.

En el último bloque, “Experiencias sobre investigación colaborativa y sobre enseñanza-aprendizaje en el contexto de la e-Research y las Humanidades Digitales”, se aborda una propuesta de Tesis 2.0 y una experiencia de formación basada en TEI.

The database FILM-SHOT-COUNTER assembles and offers results of my own „cinemetric“ measurements of films and television episodes. I achieved those measurements by counting film shots by hand-clicker, processing the number of shots in particular software, or making a shot-by-shot analysis. To calculate the average shot length (i. e. ASL, a concept created by Barry Salt), I measure the film’s length in seconds (24fps in the case of sound films) and then divide it by the number of counted shots.

In my database, it is possible to find more than 3800 measurings of more or less contemporary films and television episodes from many countries. Besides the fact that you can find hundreds of ASL measurings of movies from the last decades here, the database is unique for at least three other reasons. Firstly, it includes an almost total number of preserved films of Czech silent cinema and at least 33 % of Czech sound cinema production from each year till (so far) 1933. Secondly, it covers a large number of films from Eastern European countries. Thirdly, it consists of many entirely rare silent films from the 1910s all around the world. Since I am updating the database regularly, it will continue growing more prominent.

It is necessary to point out that very ASL values are not the final results of any research. Those values are meant to be used as tools for further analysis. For what kinds of research may ASL be used? In the case of a particular film, the very ASL value will help us get a rudimentary awareness of its editing pattern, but it will not tell much more. When analyzing a particular movie, it is, therefore, much more helpful to observe the ASL’s variations during its course (for example, the ASL of individual scenes, sequences, blocks, or acts).On the other hand, by the force of ASL values or shot counts, we can gain a lot of various and inspiring suggestions for stylistic research in the case of groups of films. An acquaintance of ASL values can facilitate the juxtaposition of various film or television works of a period, region, genre, company, or particular filmmaker. The mere fact that certain films of a particular director (or period, region, company, genre, etc.) have identical or similar ASL values may not be a priori remarkable. That is because an identical or similar ASL value can be caused by a significantly different configuration of longer or shorter shots. However, it is worthwhile to consider the similarities in the case of relatively high and low ASL values – assessed against the background of the relevant norms. Nevertheless, more remarkable and predictable is when we find out that certain films of a particular director (or period, region, company, genre, etc.) have significantly different ASL than the others. These different ASL values imply a notable variability of creative choices that filmmakers made. Since that, we can put forward many research questions. I believe that my database offers extensive and reliable background for such questions.

In 2020 I added two entirely new parameters to the database, offering slightly different quantitative perspectives and comparative options than the existing ones. The first new parameter is the average number of cuts per minute of the film (CPM), which may be easier for some users to imagine than the average shot length in seconds. The second, in my opinion, a much more important new parameter is the number of cuts per hour of the film (CPH), which allows the detection of long-term trends and massive comparability. I work with this parameter in two forms in my database: optimally (a) in the form of the exact number of cuts per the first hour of the measured film; and (b) in case I do not know this number, in the proportional number of cuts per hour of the film. The exact number of cuts per hour is noted in the database with precision per unit of shots and is based on my own measurement (at a projection speed of 24fps). The proportional number of cuts per hour has been rounded to „fifties“ and „hundreds“. I’ve made hundreds of control tests of such a calculation in the cases of movies with already known the exact number of cuts per hour, and it’s relatively accurate in terms of broader trends. For the time being, I have decided to state the number of cuts per hour only for sound films because we can speak with certainty about the standardization of the projection speed in their case.

Musicology is a small discipline within the wide spectrum of human knowledge, yet it is already divided into various branches, each with its own societies, conferences, journals, jargons, degrees, prejudices, …, and jobs. Although they share their object of investigation-"the art of music as a physical, psychological, aesthetic, and cultural phenomenon", these branches very often ignore one another. Research in musicology is mostly a solitary task, as investigations, papers, and publications are commonly signed by single authors, in contrast with STEM disciplines where teamwork is the rule. This is in part the result of tradition-the "Musicological Toolbox"-but also the aftermath of the job market and financing programs. Large funding schemes such as the European Research Council (ERC) grants are becoming a major disruptive factor in many disciplines in the humanities, including musicology. Scholars in all fields now have the opportunity to build research teams, and most of their members receive their salaries to exclusively work on the project. In other words, we are starting to build what could be called a Musicology Lab, learning along the way how teamwork is reshaping and transforming the Musicological Toolbox, the look and feel of our discipline, the way we work as well as the way we publish and disseminate our results. This paper presents some of the key features of the ERC Didone project, one of its principal tasks being to create a digitally encoded corpus of some 3,000 arias in MusicXML format from about 180 musical settings of a small number of opera librettos by Pietro Metastasio. It focuses on some of the project's research tasks, emphasizing how the skills of a team of eighteen scholars with very different expertise-historical musicology, music theory and analysis, cultural history, librettology, archival research, music performance, music engraving, MIR, computer science, and statistical modeling-combine to explore the potential answer(s) to the main research question of the project: How are emotions expressed through music?

Production, distribution, and consumption of digital use values occur today in a sociotechnological setting quite different from that characterizing the industrial economic system. Thanks to increasing access to hardware, software, and the Internet—the means of production in the digital economy—a growing multitude of digital immaterial labors contributes to the digital economy within a culture of sharing and (a culture of) nonexclusionary use of resources. As various online sharing platforms illustrate, digital immaterial labor constitutes a collective and collaborative productive force, an online general intellect, that cannot be reified in the means of production traditionally under the control of capital. This dynamic allows the online multitude to organize itself independently of the logic and management of capital. Capital, however, has been able to develop strategies, peculiar to this new socioeconomic system, that aim to control and profit from the collective intelligence created by digital immaterial labor.

Sin dalla loro prima apparizione nel corso del Diciassettesimo secolo periodici e bollettini sono stati al centro della fabbrica dell’universo scientifico. Il Journal des sçavans (Parigi, 1665) e il Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (Londra, 1665) sono stati gli ignoti e operosi capostipiti di un modello di comunicazione scientifica che in forme nel tempo quasi inalterate ha laboriosamente e senza clamore sostenuto lo sviluppo della scienza galileiana. Le riviste sono diventate velocemente un importante veicolo della comunicazione scientifica perché hanno consentito agli autori di condividere più velocemente con i loro pari i risultati della propria ricerca e allo stesso tempo di affermare pubblicamente la paternità delle proprie idee, dei propri argomenti e delle proprie scoperte, in definitiva del proprio valore (Gross, Harmon, Reidy 2002; Meadows 1980; Guédon 2001). Oggigiorno i periodici scientifici (peer-reviewed journal) sono irritualmente al centro dell’attenzione. Autori, lettori, istituzioni di ricerca e decisori istituzionali soppesano, valutano e comparano journal quasi che il ‘vettore di trasporto’ sia più importante dei suoi ‘passeggeri’. I periodici scientifici sono al centro del dibattito sulle cause, le conseguenze e le soluzioni della ‘crisi dei prezzi dei periodici’ (serials crisis). Allo stesso modo, i journal sono i protagonisti del dibattito sulle evoluzioni delle forme di letteratura scientifica: le monografie sopravvivranno come genuina forma di comunicazione scientifica? Sempre le testate scientifiche sono il campo di battaglia del vivace confronto di forze e d’idee che contrappone gli strumenti bibliometrici alla peer review nella valutazione della produzione scientifica e delle carriere. I periodici scientifici, infine, sono il caso di studio, l’esempio d’elezione, del modello dell’accesso aperto (open access) alla letteratura scientifica. Un modello di comunicazione scientifica in cui i risultati della ricerca sono gratuitamente, immediatamente e completamente accessibili e allo stesso tempo non limitati nell’uso da parte dei lettori (Budapest 2002; Bethesda 2003; Berlin 2003).

Millions of people around the world today use digital tools and platforms to create and share sophisticated cultural artifacts. This book focuses on one such platform: Instagram. It places Instagram image culture within a rich cultural and historical context, including history of photography, cinema, graphic design, and social media, contemporary design trends, music video, and k-pop. At the same it uses Instagram as a window into the identities of first truly global generation connected by common social media platforms, programming languages, and visual aesthetics. The book demonstrates how humanistic close reading and computational analysis of large datasets can work together by drawing on the work in Manovich's Cultural Analytics Lab with 16 million Instagram photos shared in 17 large cities worldwide since 2012.

In this article we use the challenge of working with a set of one million manga pages to motivate the need for a computational approach for the exploration of collections of such size, and to explain our particular method that combines digital image analysis and a novel visualization technique. Any reflection on culture begins with an informal comparison between multiple objects in order to understand their similarities and differences. For instance, if we want our analysis to properly reflect the range of graphical techniques used today by manga artists across thousands of manga books, millions of pages in these books, and tens of millions of individual panels, we need to be able to examine details of individual images and to find patterns of difference and similarity across large numbers of images. To do this, we need a mechanism that would allow us to precisely compare sets of images of any size – from a few dozens to millions. We discuss how our method, which combines automatic ...

Roman emperors came to power through a hybrid dynastic/elective selection system that was never formally codified. This lack of codification has caused problems for modern scholars looking to identify and categorize those who were involved in selecting the next Roman emperor. This thesis believes that these problems exist because scholars are not distinguishing the names of key ancient institutions from the underlying types of power which backed their capability for action. This thesis seeks to solve this problem by creating a categorization system for imperial accessions based around a basic unit called the “political interest.” At its core, a political interest is a combination of the name of the individual or group as listed in the primary sources, the different types of power they possessed, and the level of decision-making authority they wielded during an imperial selection. Using this system, this thesis creates a database of Late Roman emperors with information on when they came to power, the various stages of their accessions, what political interests supported them, and where these interests were located. This thesis then analyzes the political and geographic trends from the database and supplies provisional explanations as to why changes in the Late Roman accession process occurred.

The development of human societies has been studied extensively by historians and social scientists. In Finland, there is a significant and underexplored amount of digitised archaeological material, such as the Finnish Heritage Agency’s database of archaeological sites and monuments. The EU-funded DeepFIN project will analyse the Finnish archaeological and historical data. It will use geographic information systems and other digital humanities methodologies. The project will reassess and create a new understanding of the deep history of archaeological landscapes, historical settlement and material culture development from the Iron Age (500 BCE to 1200/1300 CE) to the Middle Ages (1200/1300 to 1520 CE). This paper presents the goals of the DeepFIN project, and discusses how it builds upon my previous work in GIS/Digital Humanities research.
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/896044

Este volume é fruto dos trabalhos do Núcleo de Pesquisa em Informática Literatura e Linguística da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (NuPILL/UFSC), seus parceiros e convidados, além dos participantes do II Congresso Internacional e VI Congresso Nacional de Literatura e Informática, realizado pelo núcleo em dezembro de 2013 nas dependências da UFSC. Sua organização e publicação contaram com o apoio da Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), que, junto a outros parceiros, tornou também possível a bem-sucedida realização do nosso simpósio. São esses: a Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e Inovação do Estado de Santa Catarina (FAPESC), Pró-Reitoria de Pós-Graduação (PRPG/UFSC), Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos da Tradução (PPGET/UFSC), Programa de Pós-Graduação em Literatura (PPGL/UFSC), a direção do Centro de Comunicação e Expressão (CCE/UFSC), Departamento de Língua e Literatura Vernáculas (DLLV/UFSC), Departamento de Língua e Literatura Estrangeiras (DLLE/UFSC) e o Núcleo de Literatura e Memória (NuLIME/UFSC).
Para compor o volume em questão foram selecionados alguns textos provenientes dos eixos Leituras em meio digital e Estatística textual, aqui agrupados em conjuntos distintos, conforme as proximidades temáticas de cada texto. Apresentamos, ao todo, 10 capítulos, divididos em 3 seções: Literatura. Leitura e Tecnologia, Ferramentas e Repositórios Digitais e Estatística Textual, com textos de docentes e pesquisadores de variadas instituições que possuem, como elo comum, o interesse na pesquisa voltada à tecnologia e suas implicações seja na literatura, seja em questões correlatas.
No primeiro capítulo da sessão inicial, Miguel Rettenmaier e Tania Rösing tomam como pano de fundo as Jornadas Literárias de Passo Fundo para discutir as relações dos jovens com a tecnologia por meio da literatura, e vice-versa, discussão que se soma à análise da obra Eros & Psiquê.com.br (2011). Na sequência, Elisa Cristina Delfini Corrêa faz um percurso da contação de histórias tradicional à narrativa transmídia, enfatizando seu potencial como estratégia para incentivo de leitura. O capítulo seguinte, de Cláudio Augusto Carvalho Moura, relata um experimento teórico-prático sobre a paratextualidade, realizado em sala de aula com o uso de minicontos disponíveis online. Fechando a sessão, Gisella Meneguelli Sousa parte de uma experiência com Educação a Distância (EaD) para refletir sobre o letramento digital, e apontar a produtividade do interactive model no processamento da leitura de textos nos quais são utilizados recursos hipermodais.
A sessão seguinte inicia com o capítulo de José Eduardo Santarém Segundo acerca do uso de elementos semânticos no processo de armazenamento e recuperação da informação em repositórios digitais através do processo de Folksonomia Assistida e do modelo Representação Iterativa. Em seguida, Divino Ignacio Ribeiro Jr.

apresenta a evolução da discussão sobre os repositórios e bibliotecas digitais, suas particularidades, discutindo questões ligadas à importância de sua estruturação, manutenção, implementação e gerenciamento eficientes. O último capítulo da sessão, de autoria de Fábio Bif Goularte, Beatriz Wilges e Silvia Modesto Nassar, apresenta um protótipo de caderno de material didático adaptado para dispositivos móveis ainda em fase de testes.
Na última sessão deste volume temos o capítulo inicial de Saulo Cunha de Serpa Brandão, que discute a necessidade de uma delimitação metodológica eficaz para os estudos literários e o uso de ferramentas telemáticas para análise de literatura em meio digital. O capítulo seguinte traz um estudo de estatística textual de Verônica Ribas Cúrcio sobre a obra de Guimarães Rosa, apontando características do seu vocabulário e comparando os resultados encontrados com três teses da crítica literária rosiana. O capítulo que encerra tanto a sessão quanto o livro tem como autores Etienne Brunet e Laurent Vanni. Nesse capítulo é relatada a empreitada, em curso, de análise e tratamento de corpora linguísticos disponíveis online, tomando como partida a língua francesa.
Embora não possamos chamar de recente toda a revolução tecnológica que presenciamos, vez que perscrutadas, suas raízes indicam, pelo menos, dois séculos de profundidade; tampouco são recentes os estudos que tratam do tema. Mesmo se falarmos de informática, teremos já meio século, e até mesmo a internet em si já não pode, ou pelo menos não deveria, ser tratada como novidade, visto que o início de sua massificação já tem em torno de duas décadas. Contudo, é na constante evolução desses objetos que encontramos um campo fértil, repleto de questionamentos a serem respondidos, ou, pelo menos, caminhos a serem apontados, na busca por algumas respostas; quando

não, questões. Neste sentido, este livro tem por objetivo contribuir com a ampliação das discussões acerca dos pontos de entrecruzamento da tecnologia com nossas áreas de interesse.

We describe the development of web-based software that facilitates large-scale, crowdsourced image extraction and annotation within image-heavy corpora that are of interest to the digital humanities. An application of this software is then detailed and evaluated through a case study where it was deployed within Amazon Mechanical Turk to extract and annotate faces from the archives of Time magazine. Annotation labels included categories such as age, gender, and race that were subsequently used to train machine learning models. The systemization of our crowdsourced data collection and worker quality verification procedures are detailed within this case study. We outline a data verification methodology that used validation images and required only two annotations per image to produce high-fidelity data that has comparable results to methods using five annotations per image. Finally, we provide instructions for customizing our software to meet the needs for other studies, with the goal ...

Viele Dissertationen in der Archäologie enthalten am Ende der Arbeit einen Katalog, in dem die untersuchten Daten in einem bestimmten System aufgeschlüsselt präsentiert werden. In diesem Beitrag wird eine effiziente Gestaltung eines Kataloges und dessen Einbindung in den Fließtext vorgestellt.

Социальные сети, мобильная связь и электронная коммерция преобразуют туристический сектор. Для работы с «цифровым туристом» используют маркетинговые стратегии, основанные на перспективных цифровых технологиях. Доступность информации о культурном наследии не является единственным показателем эффективности информационного продукта. Перенесение традиционных приёмов подготовки текстового и иллюстративного материала для так называемых виртуальных туров лишает их привлекательности и смысла использования самих технологий. Cоздание и представление цифровых образов культурного наследия требует привлечения специалистов совершенно новых профессий и областей знаний.

The main theme of this thesis is an exploration of living labs/city labs through practices in two Copenhagen’s spaces. It is investigated how living labs work with tensions between their ideals of engagement, openness to information and at the same time mobilizing resources to ‘pay the rent’ and invest in necessary technology they seek. Further, it is explored how objects in the living labs are formed, and how they are enacted in different situations/practices that can be located in different spatialities. Fieldwork is conducted by application of ethnographic methods via interviews and participation in daily activities. The findings contribute the understanding of living labs by extension of studied dimensions and in-depth practice exploration. Recommendation for future research is the application of such broader set of dimensions on a more extensive number of spaces to be able to contribute for better categorization. And involvement on large-scale of digital methods as post- demographics gains more importance.

Decentralisation facilitates participation and helps deepen democracy. Nevertheless, it has been confronted with diverse challenges in Lesotho. First, the process has not succeeded to improve participation relative to the traditional system that preceded it. Second, it pitted the chiefs against counsellors. Third, it is hampered by lack of financial resources, human resources and the central government's tendency to intrude in local government's affairs and dictate the course of action. However, the prospects demonstrate that there ispolitical will to decentralise although there is still need to addresssome challenges. Firstly, the central government has to devolve financial powers to the local units.Secondly, it has to ensure a smooth relationship between counsellors and chiefs and continue augmenting the budget allocated to the local government. Finally, it has to promote the use of internet technology and consider making chieftainship the last sub-unit of the local government.

A New Approach to the Abstract Art of Antoni Tàpies P i l A R R o S A d o STATe of The ART The need of semantic image classification is becoming increasingly important to support effective image database indexing and retrieval. The goal of the project described here will be to develop an image classification system that reduces the amount of manual supervision required as well as the computational cost of training the classifier. This application is novel and the results extend previous findings on the use of these models to facilitate pattern recognition in image collections of natural scenes (with photographs of landscapes, interiors, cityscapes) [1], object detection [2] and abstract images of natural items (with photographs of water, sky and stones) [3,4]. Computer vision has previously been employed to classify artists' paintings, in all cases applying machine learning techniques to prior classifications performed by art experts [5,6]. The method developed to establish a visual taxonomy is totally automated and requires no previous intervention. However , at the time of the project's execution, no references were found in the literature regarding the use of these models to study patterns in abstract painting, and this positive evaluation should contribute to confirming their value in this field. We suggest the need to develop a new way of studying the collections of art institutions based on the possibilities that computer vision techniques place at our disposal, and that this alternative point of view will increase the interest of the general public and experts alike.

"Celebrating Communities" by Jennifer L. Keil, 1st VP

We celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Lawrence de Graff Center for Oral and Public History in May. It was an occasion to recognize the pioneering work of university historian Larry de Graff and Arthur A. Hansen. I had the opportunity to participate in the oral history panel that included former students, narrators, and project directors. The session was titled, “Talking Back: 50 Years of Oral History” followed by “Open History: Public Project Past and Future.” CSU Fullerton university president, Framroze Virjee, provided welcoming remarks at the Golleher Alumni House.

The modeling of the inner world of narrative characters and the ability to capture and formally shape their deep psychological characteristics are at the center of the reflection of a part of literary criticism and remains, today, an open challenge in the Digital Humanities. In this paper, we present an ongoing work of a preliminary version of  the Ontology of Literary Characters (OLC), that allows to capture and inference psychological characters’ traits starting from their linguistic descriptions as they appear in literary texts.

Thematic classification of Thomas Hardy's work has traditionally been based partly on textual content and partly on biographical considerations. These analyses and criticisms have been generated by what will henceforth be referred to as 'the philological method'; that is, by individual researchers' reading of printed materials and the intuitive abstraction of generalizations from that reading. A major problem with studies in this tradition is that they are not objective or replicable. In order to address issues of objectivity and replicability, this paper proposes an automated text clustering of the prose fiction works of Thomas Hardy using cluster analysis based on a vector space model (VSM) representation of the lexical content of the selected texts. The results reported here indicate that the proposed clustering structures yield usable results in understanding the thematic structure of Hardy's prose fiction texts and that they do so in an objective and replicable way. The remainder of this discussion is organized as follows: part 1 is the introduction, part 2 is methodology, part 3 covers data preparation, part 4 is hierarchical cluster analysis, part 5 is an interpretation of the results, and part 6 is the conclusion.

Se indaga el sentido de la conferencia de Sloterdijk
“Normas para el Parque humano” así como las
polémicas por ella suscitada. Se realiza un diagnóstico
de la capacidad crítica del humanismo tradicional. En el
marco del naufragio del humanismo como escuela y
utopía domesticadora humana -marco en el que
Sloterdijk reclama una revisión genético-técnica de la
humanidad- se indaga ¿qué criterios pueden
establecerse para normar las inevitables luchas por los
derechos de la crianza humana? ¿Quiénes y sobre qué
bases debieran hoy detentar el derecho a la crianza?
¿Cómo determinar quiénes son los que educan y los que
son educados? Se proponen nuevos caminos que
tienen en la mediación de la técnica su formulación
discursiva y sus orígenes en las disidencias que, desde
la propia tradición filosófica, reducían la estancia del
hombre en el mundo a su expresión leída y escrita.

This guidance is intended for Volunteer and Technical Communities (V&TCs) and tech groups that have a desire to collaborate with Formal Humanitarian Organizations. We hope that it best fits the needs of V&TCs and tech groups that currently seek practical advice on how  to develop projects with formal humanitarian organizations or how to further strengthen pre-existing collaborative relationships. We hope that this Guidance helps V&TCs better understand the modus operandi of humanitarian organizations so that they may better formulate requests for partnerships and maximize the benefits of collaborative relationships.