Issue 16.1
Perceptual Effects of Hierarchy in Art Historical Social Networks
  • Houda Lamqaddam
  • Inez De Prekel
  • Koenraad Brosens
  • Katrien Verbert
  • history
  • data modeling
  • network
    EN

    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

    A Text Network Analysis of Discursive Changes in German, Austrian and Swiss New Year’s Speeches 2000-2021
    • Kimmo Elo
    • network
    • communications
    • public history
    • history
      EN

      This paper introduces a nonlinear way to analyse texts as networks in order to visualise and analyse how concepts are connected and to explore structural closeness and holes within a corpus of unstructured textual documents.

      Tesserae Intertext Service
      • Nozomu Okuda
      • Jeffery Kinnison
      • Patrick Burns
      • Neil Coffee
      • Walter Scheirer
      • tools
      • project report
      • project management
      • literary studies
        EN

        Two case studies demonstrate the contributions of the TIS-API to computer-assisted literary criticism, particularly in increased software development and maintenance flexibility as well as in easier integration of Tesserae software into research workflows.

        The Ebook Imagination
        • Simon Peter Rowberry
        • media studies
        • archaeology
        • digital
        • publishing
          EN

          In this article, I offer a media archaeological analysis of digital publishing patents to develop the ebook imagination, or the desires of readers and inventors for the future of reading on screen.

          Archives, Information Infrastructure, and Maintenance Work
          • Ciaran B. Trace
          • archives
          • infrastructure
          • Infrastructure
          • maintenance
          • maintenance work
          • humanities scholarship
          • archival work
          EN

          This article examines the notion of the archive as revealed through a process of infrastructural inversion, with an emphasis on understanding the working information practices of archivists as a prerequisite to any discussion of humanities infrastructure initiatives. Situating the archive as a form of infrastructure and archival labor as a form of maintenance work generates descriptions of archival systems and practices that shine a spotlight on key negotiations and tensions that adhere in a profession that exists in service of others.

          The Brain Is Deeper Than the Sea: Sea and Spar Between, Computational Stuplimity, and Fragmentation
          • Nathanael Moore
          • visual art
          • reading
          • project report
          • nlp
          • graphic design
            EN

            Exploring fragments of classical text in computational poetry.

            Investing in Project Maintenance: Auditing the Digital Transgender Archive
            • Eamon Schlotterback
            • Cailin Flannery Roles
            • K.J. Rawson
            • project report
            • gender
            • project management
              EN

              Discussing motivations for the audit of the Digital Transgender Archive and the methods employed.

              Layers of Variation: a Computational Approach to Collating Texts with Revisions
              • Elli Bleeker
              • Bram Buitendijk
              • Ronald Haentjens Dekker
              • Vincent Neyt
              • Dirk Van Hulle
              • data modeling
              • tools
              • editing
              • linguistics
                EN

                The development of a software program that interprets TEI-XML transcriptions of texts with variation provides a medium to examine the ways in which we model and study textual variance.

                The Lives of Mistresses and Maids: Editing Victorian Correspondence with Genealogy, Prosopography, and the TEI
                • Kailey Fukushima
                • Karen Bourrier
                • Janice Parker
                • gender
                • literary studies
                • project report
                • history
                • tools
                  EN

                  In this paper, we explore the material conditions of scholarship and digital editorial work that make uncovering nineteenth-century women’s lives possible in the twenty-first century.