Issue 15.2
Why Digital Humanists Should Emphasize Situated Data over Capta
  • Matthew Lavin
  • dh
  • philosophy
    EN

    Pushing back against Johanna Drucker's call to reconsider data as capta.

    Hands-On Reading: An Experiment in Slow Digital Reading
    • Aditi Nafde
    • Matt Coneys Wainwright
    • Kate Court
    • Fiona Galston
    • James Cummings
    • Tiago Sousa Garcia
    • project report
    • reading
    • graphic design
    • users
      EN

      Case study of Hands-On Reading web app addressing technical challenges and the question of whether reading/writing practices can be translated to the digital world

      Towards Hermeneutic Visualization in Digital Literary Studies
      • Rabea Kleymann
      • Jan-Erik Stange
      • data visualization
      • literary studies
      • philosophy
      • project report
      • reading
        EN

        This article discusses hermeneutic data visualizations within the field of digital literary studies.

        Imagining the Continuously Present Past: Visualizing William Faulkner’s Narratives and Digital Yoknapatawpha
        • Johannes Burgers
        • collaboration
        • databases
        • literary studies
        • tools
          EN

          This article discusses the Digital Yoknapatawpha project held at the University of Virginia.

          Going Digital: Teaching Crevecoeur in the Twenty-First Century
          • Mary Mcaleer Balkun
          • Diana Hope Polley
          • publishing
          • project report
          • pedagogy
          • data curation
            EN

            This article discusses the authors' development of a critical edition of Letters from an American Farmer.

            Interpretable Outputs: Criteria for Machine Learning in the Humanities
            • James Dobson
            • machine learning
            • tools
            • data modeling
              EN

              This essay argues that claims made on behalf of computational models should be more closely evaluated to ensure that they are indeed comprehensible according to the norms of the shared interpretative community of the humanities.

              Automatic Identification of Types of Alterations in Historical Manuscripts
              • David Lassner
              • Anne Baillot
              • Sergej Dogadov
              • Klaus-Robert Müller
              • Shinichi Nakajima
              • manuscripts
              • machine learning
              • tools
              • editing
                EN

                This article present a new probabilistic model for categorizing alterations in manuscripts which yields interesting insights into sensitive topics in the correspondence of Berlin intellectuals around 1800.

                Beyond the Word: Immersion, Art, and Theory in Environmental and Digital Humanities Prototyping
                • Hanna Musiol
                • pedagogy
                • interdisciplinarity
                • visual art
                • ethics
                • sound
                  EN

                  This article examines the overlapping characteristics of Digital and Environmental Humanities.