• Rebecca Y. Bayeck

• race
• area studies
• dh

• Black digital humanities
• learning sciences
• instructional design
• exhibition design

Black DH has at its core principles and practices that call for equity and inclusion. This article speaks to how the dialogue between Black DH and the fields of learning sciences, instructional design, and exhibition design can create new frameworks for inclusion, design, and learning for all.

• Samuel Grieggs
• Jessica Lockhart
• Alexandra Atiya
• Gelila Tilahun
• Suzanne Akbari
• Eyob Derillo
• Jarod Jacobs
• Christine Kwon
• Michael Gervers
• Steve Delamarter
• Alexandra Gillespie
• Walter Scheirer

• digitization
• access
• minimal computing
• history
• area studies

The paper describes the collaborative development of a new open-source tool for Ethiopian manuscript transcription.

• Heyam Abd Alhadi
• Ali Ahmad Hussein
• Tsvi Kuflik

• rhetoric
• area studies
• literary studies
• machine learning
• project report
• corpora

• Text mining
• Arabic natural language processing
• rule-based
• classical Arabic poetry
• rhetorical elements

A novel, rule-based, automatic framework for identifying rhetorical elements in classical Arabic poetry is described.

• Sune Bechmann Pedersen
• Mathias Johansson

• reading
• geospatial
• history
• area studies
• communications
• project report

• Historical Geographical Information Systems
• tourism history
• travel guides
• state socialism
• Cold War
• toponym disambiguation
• Baedeker
• Čedok

This article demonstrates the value of scalable reading of historical travel guides, combining traditional close reading with computer-assisted distant reading.

• Adán Israel Lerma Mayer
• Ximena Gutierrez-Vasques
• Ernesto Priani Saiso
• Hannu Salmi

• history
• digitization
• network
• area studies
• corpora
• linguistics

Analyzing the news flow following Maximilian I's death across a multilingual research setting.

• Franny Gaede
• Ana-Maurine Lara
• Alaí Reyes-Santos
• Kate Thornhill

• race
• indigenous
• collaboration
• glam
• data curation
• project report
• area studies

• Black digital humanities
• Caribbean
• Digital archive

This interdisciplinary team placed the healers’ community at the center of the research project to publicly validate and share aspects of their knowledge with the healers, teachers, researchers, and students studying race, indigeneity, ethnobotanical medicinal healing, and intersectionality.

• Kaiama L. Glover

• dh
• race
• area studies
• globalDH

Kaiama Glover writes on the future of Caribbean studies in Black DH.

• Jaap Verheul
• Hannu Salmi
• Martin Riedl
• Asko Nivala
• Lorella Viola
• Jana Keck
• Emily Bell

• corpora
• history
• area studies
• digitization
• digital libraries

this article demonstrates how word vector models can be used to explore the way concepts have shifted in meaning over time, as they migrated across space, by comparing newspapers from different countries published between 1840 and 1914.

• Edward Larkey

• moving images
• cultural criticism
• history
• area studies
• annotation

A comparison of the Quebec sitcom Un Gars, Une Fille ("A Guy and a Girl") to its German remake using Adobe Premiere Pro annotation software and in the context of post-WWII emotional repression.

• Peter Broadwell
• Timothy R. Tangherlini

• machine learning
• content analysis
• performance
• moving images
• area studies

In this paper, we describe the considerations and choices made in the process of applying deep learning-based posed detection to a large corpus of K-pop music videos, and present the analytical methods we developed while focusing on a smaller subset of dance practice videos.

• Diego Jiménez–Badillo
• Patricia Murrieta–Flores
• Bruno Martins
• Ian Gregory
• Mariana Favila-Vázquez
• Raquel Liceras-Garrido

• nlp
• machine learning
• geospatial
• history
• corpora
• area studies

• Relaciones Geográficas de la Nueva España
• early colonial history
• Mexico
• geographical text analysis
• named entity recognition
• name entity disambiguation
• named entity classification
• geographic collocation
• natural language processing
• machine learning

This article explores a DH project that contributes to discussions on computational analysis of vast historical corpora.

• Emma Slayton

• history
• archaeology
• geospatial
• data modeling
• area studies
• indigenous

• computer applications in archaeology
• seafaring
• navigation

This article investigated Amerindian practices by modeling hypothetical canoe routes across Trinidad and mainalnd coast of South America between 1000 AD - 1550 AD.

• Luis Ferla
• Cecily Raynor

• globalDH
• infrastructure
• standards
• cultural criticism
• graphic design
• geospatial
• data curation
• ethics
• area studies

DHQ presents its Portuguese language special edition.

• Cláudio José Silva Ribeiro
• Suemi Higuchi
• Luis Antonio Coelho Ferla

• dh
• area studies
• globalDH
• project report

• Digital Humanities
• Science and Technology
• HDRio2018

A Portuguese language article which casts a panoramic glance at Digital Humanities initiatives in Brazil.

• Patricia Ferreira-Lopes

• history
• geospatial
• cultural heritage
• digitization
• data modeling
• area studies

Applying Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in cultural and historical studies, especially on the Iberian peninsula.

• Ana Jofre
• Vincent Berardi
• Kathleen P.J. Brennan
• Aisha Cornejo
• Carl Bennett
• John Harlan

• images
• project report
• machine learning
• annotation
• tools
• archives
• corpora
• area studies

This is a case study that demonstrates how the authors' software can be used to extract and annotate faces from a magazine archive.

• Sarita Albagli
• Hesley Py
• Allan Yu Iwama

• data visualization
• geospatial
• tools
• info architecture
• infrastructure
• area studies
• social justice
• access

A critical and systematic review on information geovisualization via a Brazilian prototype platform.

• Maria J.Ferreira dos Santos

• history
• project report
• data visualization
• ecocriticism
• geospatial
• area studies

About the experience of developing a digital platform which visualizes the history of natural conservation in California over time.

• Melvin Wevers
• Jianbo Gao
• Kirstoffer L. Nielbo

• history
• interdisciplinarity
• content analysis
• area studies
• data modeling

Shows how methods from econometrics and complexity science may be applied to humanities data to improve understanding of the role of advertising in society

• Sharon Block

• history
• databases
• race
• social justice
• metadata
• gender
• area studies
• cultural criticism
• machine learning

Examines the representation of women and minority groups in JSTOR's topical metadata

• Peter Meindertsma

• music
• history
• area studies
• digital libraries
• nlp
• data analytics

• Billboard
• charts
• lyrics
• popular music
• cultural diversity

Billboard Hot 100 decreases in quantitative and lyrical diversity between 1956 and 2016.

• Steven Braun

• games
• area studies
• history
• users
• rhetoric

A Review of Mia Consalvo's Atati to Zelda: Japan's Videogames in Global Contexts

• Peter Broadwell
• Jack W. Chen
• David Shepard

• history
• literary studies
• corpora
• nlp
• reading
• area studies

Examines how topic modeling and divergence measures can be used to examine literary historical questions regarding Tang poetry

• Kelly Baker Josephs

• dh
• social justice
• cultural criticism
• area studies

Responding to the tendency to focus on “DH in the moment,” an essay from DYCDH week 2018.