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BASIC FTBALL and Computer Programming for All
  • Annette Vee
  • code studies
  • cs
  • users
  • history
  • project management
  • media history
  • games
  • Critical Code Studies
  • BASIC programming language
  • programming for all
  • computer games
  • Dartmouth College
  • sports

Annette Vee traces the historical and cultural context of FTBALL as an example of programming for all.

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An Integral Web-map for the Analysis of Spatial Change over Time in a Complex Built Environment: Digital Samos
  • Estefanía López Salas
  • geospatial
  • tools
  • project report
  • history
  • project management
  • Digital Art and Architectural History
  • Digital Visualization
  • Spatiotemporal Web-Mapping
  • Spanish Monastic Architecture

The paper focuses on a prototype interactive web-map of the monastic site of San Julián de Samos in north-western Spain and offers a response to questions regarding why and how to create an interactive web-map in the field of architectural history through a particular case study.

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Computational Paremiology: Charting the temporal, ecological dynamics of proverb use in books, news articles, and tweets
  • Ethan Davis
  • Christopher Danforth
  • Wolfgang Mieder
  • Peter Sheridan Dodds
  • linguistics
  • corpora
  • history
  • data visualization

    This article measures temporal changes in the relevance of proverbs within four corpora,differing in kind, scale, and time frame: Millions of books over centuries; thousands of books over centuries; millions of news articles over twenty years; and billions of tweets over a decade.

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    Historical GIS and Guidebooks: A Scalable Reading of Czechoslovak Tourist Attractions
    • 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.

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    The case of the golden background, a virtual restoration and a physical reconstruction of the medieval Crucifixion of the Lindau Master (c. 1425)
    • Liselore Tissen
    • Sanne Frequin
    • Ruben Wiersma
    • digitization
    • history
    • images
    • visual art

      This paper presents a methodological solution of approaching the problem of restoring the medieval Crucifixion of the Lindau Master (c. 1425) by combining the knowledge of art historians, restorers and by integrating modern 3D technologies before, during, and after the restoration.

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      The Page Is an Image Again: Bleedmapping as an Analysis Technique for Historical Newspapers
      • Quintus van Galen
      • images
      • digitization
      • history
      • media history

        Analysis of historical periodicals through digital tools is still a predominantly text-based field. This paper seeks to expand the toolbox of researchers of these sources, and addresses the observed capability gap, by proposing a new technique for the discovery of appearance patterns in historical newspaper collections.

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        Reaping the Harvest: Descendant Archival Practice to Foster Sustainable Digital Archives for Rural Black Women
        • Jazma Sutton
        • Kalani Craig
        • archives
        • data curation
        • race
        • cultural heritage
        • history
        • oral history
        • social media
        • project report
        • Black women
        • Black digital humanities
        • History harvest
        • Memory work
        • Digital community archive

        In a world that has always conceived of Black women in opposition to others, but never on her own terms, Remembering Freedom History Harvest builds a local Indiana historiography that relies less on resistant readings of archives and more on the community archives and memory work that join together in descendant archival practice as a way to generate Black women’s histories.

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        Hidden in Plain-TeX: Investigating Minimal Computing Workflows
        • Nabeel Siddiqui
        • project management
        • markup
        • tools
        • minimal computing
        • philosophy
        • history
        • publishing

          Drawing on software studies, data feminism, digital rhetoric studies, information science, and the history of computing, this paper foregrounds Markdown as a cultural object to analyze the social, cultural, and political pressures surrounding the digital humanities.  Rather than beginning with contemporary discourse, it draws parallels between Markdown and Donald Knuth's TeX.

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          Simple but Beautiful: A Case Study on the ZHI Project of Traditional Craftsmanship
          • Jing Chen
          • Mengqi Li
          • Wensi Lin
          • Yinzhou Zhao
          • Mengyue Zhang
          • Han Chen
          • Qiang Hu
          • Yongqing Xie
          • project report
          • visual art
          • cultural heritage
          • collaboration
          • minimal computing
          • history
          • publishing

            This essay offers a case study of the ZHI project, a digital craftsmanship project showcasing the beauty of traditional craftsmanship at three levels: knowing, making, and intelligence.

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            Transmediation as Radical Pedagogy in Building Queer and Trans Digital Archives
            • Elspeth Brown
            • Cait McKinney
            • Dan Guadagnolo
            • Juan Carlos Mezo Gonzalez
            • Sid Cunningham
            • Caleigh Inman
            • Zohar Freeman
            • Amal Khurram
            • Alisha Krishna
            • Mackenzie Stewart
            • history
            • race
            • gender
            • pedagogy

              Analyzing an intensive digital collections lab focused on queer and trans community history by focusing on mapped spaces, metadata, and designed interfaces.

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              Perceptual Effects of Hierarchy in Art Historical Social Networks
              • Houda Lamqaddam
              • Inez De Prekel
              • Koenraad Brosens
              • Katrien Verbert
              • history
              • data modeling
              • network

                We explore the importance of hierarchy in social networks, and investigate whether hierarchies  - strongly present within our models of social structure - affect our perception of social network data

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                A Named Entity Recognition Model for Medieval Latin Charters
                • Pierre Chastang
                • Sergio Torres Aguilar
                • Xavier Tannier
                • medieval
                • manuscripts
                • history
                • tools
                • project report

                  In this paper, we detail the implementation of a model for automatic named entity recognition in medieval Latin sources and we test its robustness on different datasets.

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                  Prison Writer as Witness: Can DH Read for Social Justice?
                  • Doran Larson
                  • social justice
                  • archives
                  • reading
                  • history
                  • public history

                    This article proposes that there exists a broad, well established, but underappreciated mid-range manner of reading that stands between traditional close reading and computer-aided distant reading of first-person witness testimony.

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                    Annotating ritual in ancient Greek tragedy: a bottom-up approach in action
                    • Gloria Mugelli
                    • Federico Boschetti
                    • Andrea Bellandi
                    • Riccardo Del Gratta
                    • Anas Fahad Khan
                    • Andrea Taddei
                    • classics
                    • history
                    • tools
                    • databases
                    • users
                    • annotation
                    • project report
                    • textual annotation
                    • bottom-up approach
                    • domain specific languages
                    • ontologies
                    • ancient Greek
                    • ancient Greek tragedy
                    • ritual
                    • religion

                    Description of the Euporia annotation system.

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                    Transdisciplinary Analysis of a Corpus of French Newsreels: The ANTRACT Project
                    • Jean Carrive
                    • Abdelkrim Beloued
                    • Pascale Goetschel
                    • Serge Heiden
                    • Antoine Laurent
                    • Pasquale Lisena
                    • Franck Mazuet
                    • Sylvain Meignier
                    • Bénédicte Pincemin
                    • Géraldine Poels
                    • Raphaël Troncy
                    • moving images
                    • history
                    • project report
                    • tools
                    • archives
                    • semantic web

                      The ANTRACT project is a cross-disciplinary apparatus dedicated to the analysis of the French newsreel company Les Actualités Françaises (1945-1969) and its film productions.

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                      Developing Geographically Oriented NLP Approaches to Sixteenth–Century Historical Documents: Digging into Early Colonial Mexico
                      • 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.

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                      Modeling Amerindian Sea Travel in the Early Colonial Caribbean
                      • 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.

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                      Ticha: Collaboration with Indigenous communities to build digital resources on Zapotec language and history
                      • George Aaron Broadwell
                      • Moisés García Guzmán
                      • Brook Danielle Lillehaugen
                      • Felipe H. Lopez
                      • May Helena Plumb
                      • Mike Zarafonetis
                      • collaboration
                      • history
                      • cultural heritage
                      • digital libraries
                      • indigenous
                      • language studies
                      • translation
                      • access
                      • social justice
                      • digital schoalrship
                      • digital humanities
                      • Colonial Mexico
                      • Zapotec
                      • archives
                      • collaoration
                      • humanidades digitales
                      • México colonial
                      • zapoteco
                      • archivos
                      • colaboración
                      • colaboración

                      This article discusses the Ticha project whch is a digital text exploreer that provides acces to media and documents associated with the Zapotec community.

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                      Editorializing the Greek Anthology: The palatin manuscript as a collective imaginary
                      • Marcello Vitali-Rosati
                      • Servanne Monjour
                      • Joana Casenave
                      • Elsa Bouchard
                      • Margot Mellet
                      • classics
                      • databases
                      • project report
                      • history
                      • corpora
                      • manuscripts
                      • publishing
                      • semantic web
                      • digital
                      • Digital Classics
                      • Digital Edition
                      • Palatine Anthology
                      • Anthological Imaginary
                      • Editorialization
                      • Collaborative Process

                      How might texts written in Antinquity resonate in our networked digital culture?

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