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Data-Driven History of Ideas
The new field of data-driven history of ideas combines qualitative, quantitative and computational methods to study the origins, development and spread of ideas across time and space. It faces unique challenges in focusing on concepts rather than words, and on accurate, multilingual long-data from both well-known and obscure authors, seen as carriers of ideas. Essential to the field are resources like curated bibliographic metadata, historical gazetteers, and annotation datasets; these, however, are typically not suitable for traditional academic publication channels.
To bridge this divide, the special collection Data-Driven History of Ideas aimes to establish a platform for specialised resources supporting the study of philosophical and scientific thought across epochs and geographical areas.View articles - Collection
Data and Workflows for Multilingual Digital Humanities
This special collection in the Journal of Open Humanities Data aims to bring together cutting-edge research and advancements in the field of multilingual DH, focusing specifically on data management and workflow methodologies to explore innovative data and workflow strategies that address the challenges posed by multilingual datasets. We invite researchers, practitioners, and scholars to submit short data papers or full length research papers (see description below) addressing the intersection of data and workflows in multilingual DH.
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Archival City
This special collection brings together a number of research papers produced as part of the I-SITE-funded international Archival City programme. It combines the views of architects, historians, archivists, documentalists and digital humanities experts on urban archives and documentation. The authors reflect on the constitution of corpora of archives on the city, the creation of databases and the digitisation of sources with enormous potential for research into urban and social history. As well as sharing datasets and describing their potential for re-use, these articles address some of the key epistemological issues raised by Archival City, with the aim of exploring the notion of the urban archive. Finally, by analysing the links between archives, history and the digital humanities, the authors highlight the opportunities and challenges posed by digital tools in the context of urban history.
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Representing the Ancient World through Data
The study of the ancient world strongly benefits from the existence of datasets: from textual corpora and field reports, to collections of inscriptions and museum catalogues, scholars rely on the availability and distribution of well-curated data. In a world of technological connections, it has become crucial to ensure not just that research is of the highest standard, but also that the underlying data is shared to enable reuse and reproducibility to the widest extent.
To address this gap, we are inviting submissions to a special collection of the Journal of Open Humanities Data entitled: Representing the Ancient World through data.
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New perspectives and practices in Digital Humanities Data
We have created this special collection to celebrate 10 years of the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School, and to focus on the unique expertise of its community.View articles - Collection
Humanities Data in the time of COVID-19
In this special collection, we present data papers that span various areas of enquiry about the COVID-19 pandemic, through the lens of the Humanities. The wide range of data presented, from narrative to meta-data, has far-reaching and impactful reuse potential. It has been edited by Mandy Wigdorowitz and Sahba Besharati.View articles - Collection
Language Documentation Collections: Assessment and Recognition
This Special Collection aims to develop a detailed outline of what an effective peer-review process for documentary linguistic materials might look like, and how such a system would foster better recognition for these materials in academic evaluation systems such as in hiring, promotion, and tenure.View articles - Collection
Computational Humanities Research Data
Research in computational and quantitative approaches to humanities data is a fast growing interdisciplinary area. The first Computational Humanities Research workshop (CHR2020) took place online from 18 to 20 November 2020, organized by the DHLab of the KNAW Humanities Cluster in Amsterdam and The Alan Turing Institute
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