Issue 17.3

Categories in Digital Humanities

Edited by Dominik Gerstorfer, Evelyn Gius, and Janina Jacke

Working on and with Categories for Text Analysis: Challenges and Findings from and for Digital Humanities Practices
  • Dominik Gerstorfer
  • Evelyn Gius
  • Janina Jacke
  • data analytics
  • dh
    EN

    This is the editorial of the special issue Working on and with Categories for Text Analysis.

    Interlinking Text and Data with Semantic Annotation and Ontology Design Patterns to Analyse Historical Travelogues
    • Sandra Balck
    • Ingo Frank
    • Hermann Beyer-Thoma
    • Anna Ananieva
    • data modeling
    • annotation
    • editing
    • digital edition
    • historical travelogue
    • semantic annotation
    • frame semantics
    • annotation scheme
    • ontology design patterns
    • knowledge representation
    EN
    Category Development at the Interface of Interpretive Pragmalinguistic Annotation and Machine Learning: Annotation, detection and classification of linguistic routines of discourse referencing in political debates
    • Michael Bender
    • Maria Becker
    • Carina Kiemes
    • Marcus Müller
    • data modeling
    • annotation
    • linguistics
    • annotation
    • machine learning
    • category development
    EN
    Making the Whole Greater than the Sum of its Parts: Taxonomy development as a site of negotiation and compromise in an interdisciplinary software development project
    • Jennifer C. Edmond
    • Alejandro Benito Santos
    • Michelle Doran
    • Roberto Therón
    • Michał Kozak
    • Cezary Mazurek
    • Eveline Wandl-Vogt
    • Aleyda Rocha Sepulveda
    • collaboration
    • project report
    • interdisciplinarity
    • dh
    • data curation
    • markup
      EN

      We discuss how the cross-disciplinary design of a taxonomy of sources of uncertainty in Digital Humanities (DH) became not just an instrument to organise data, but also a tool to negotiate and build compromises between different communities of practice.

      Categorising Legal Records – Deductive, Pragmatic, and Computational Strategies
      • Marlene Ernst
      • Sebastian Gassner
      • Markus Gerstmeier
      • Malte Rehbein
      • digitization
      • content analysis
      • tools
      • nlp
      • history
        EN

        Three different approaches to categorising semi-structured information concerning legal history

        Made to Be a Woman: A case study on the categorization of gender using an individuation-based approach in the analysis of literary texts
        • Mareike Schumacher
        • Marie Flüh
        • corpora
        • gender
        • content analysis
        • data visualization
          EN

          Analyzing Simone de Beauvoir's writing to create a gender sphere which represents binary and non-binary forms of gender.

          Categorial Relations in (Re)constructing Topoi and in (Re)modeling Topology as a Methodology: Vertical, horizontal, heuristic and epistemological interdependencies
          • Maria Hinzmann
          • data modeling
            EN
            Systems of Intertextuality: Towards a formalization of text relations for manual annotation and automated reasoning
            • Jan Horstmann
            • Christian Lück
            • Immanuel Normann
            • data modeling
            • semantic web
            • intertextuality
            • semantic web
            • ontology
            • RDF
            • modeling
            • annotation
            • formalization
            • logic
            • theory
            EN
            Are Ontologies Trees or Lattices?
            • C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
            • Claus Huitfeldt
            • data modeling
            • annotation
            • CATMA
            • text annotation
            • ontology
            EN

            Why should an ontology require a girl to be either a child or a female but not both?

            Visualization of Categorization: How to see the wood and the trees
            • Ophir Münz-Manor
            • Itay Marienberg-Milikowsky
            • literary studies
            • data visualization
            • medieval
            • religion
            • annotation
            • tools
            • project report
            • computational literary studies
            • visualization
            • annotation
            • tagset
            • medieval Hebrew poetry
            • hermeneutics
            EN

            The authors introduce a new visualization tool (ViS-À-ViS) which uses CATMA annotations and promises to let users see both the forest and the trees.

            Annotating German in Austria: A Case-study of manual annotation in and for digital variationist linguistics
            • Markus Pluschkovits
            • corpora
            • annotation
            • linguistics
              EN
              From Semi-structured Text to Tangible Categories: Analysing and annotating death lists in 18th century newspaper issues
              • Claudia Resch
              • Nina C. Rastinger
              • Thomas Kirchmair
                  EN

                  This article discusses the challenges and potentials of annotating 18th century death lists found in the Wien[n]erisches Diarium or Wiener Zeitung, an early modern newspaper.

                  Developing Computational Models for Formalizing Concepts in the British Colonial India Corpus
                  • Shanmugapriya T
                  • data modeling
                  • corpora
                  • nlp
                    EN
                    Case Study: Annotating the ambiguous modality of "must" in Jane Austen’s Emma
                    • Angelika Zirker
                    • Michael Göggelmann
                    • literary studies
                    • annotation
                    • data modeling
                    • pedagogy
                    • annotation
                    • digital literary studies
                    • DH in teaching
                    • Jane Austen
                    • modality
                    • ambiguity
                    EN
                    TEST! Are Ontologies Trees or Lattices?
                    • C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
                    • Claus Huitfeldt
                    • data modeling
                    • annotation
                    • CATMA
                    • text annotation
                    • ontology
                    EN

                    Why should an ontology require a girl to be either a child or a female but not both?

                    Automated Transcription of Gə'əz Manuscripts Using Deep Learning
                    • 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
                      EN

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

                      Reconstructing historical texts from fragmentary sources: Charles S. Parnell and the Irish crisis, 1880-86
                      • Eugenio Biagini
                      • Patrick Geoghegan
                      • Hugh Hanley
                      • Aneirin Jones
                      • Huw Jones
                      • markup
                      • history
                      • tools
                      • corpora
                      • public history
                      • collation
                      • history
                      • Ireland
                      • similarity
                      • text encoding
                      EN

                      Automated methods for the reconstruction of political speeches.

                      Discourse cohesion in Xenophon’s On Horsemanship through Sketch Engine
                      • Victoria Beatrix Fendel
                      • Matthew T.Ireland
                      • classics
                      • corpora
                      • linguistics
                      • literary studies
                      • project report
                      • tools
                      • cohesion
                      • coherence
                      • Xenophon
                      • On Horsemanship
                      • support-verb construction
                      • Sketch Engine
                      EN

                      Xenophon's treatise On Horsemanship lets support-verb constructions do all the hard work for his community of practice.

                      History Harvesting: A Case Study in Documenting Local History
                      • Kimberly Woodring
                      • Julie Fox-Horton
                      • history
                      • project report
                      • digitization
                      • glam
                      • History Harvest, digital history, digital project management, community archiving, regional history
                      EN
                      Cluster Analysis in Tracing Textual Dependencies – a Case of Psalm 6 in 16th-century English Devotional Manuals
                      • Jerzy Wójcik
                      • religion
                      • linguistics
                      • translation
                      • corpora
                      • editing
                      • cluster analysis
                      • hierarchical clustering
                      • digital humanities
                      • psalm translations
                      • primers
                      • Books of Hours
                      EN

                      Using cluster analysis to track textual affinities and identify the sources of different versions of historical texts on the basis text of Psalm 6 found in the 16th-century English manuals of devotion.

                      Project Quintessence: Examining Textual Dimensionality with a Dynamic Corpus Explorer
                      • Samuel Pizelo
                      • Arthur Koehl
                      • Chandni Nagda
                      • Carl Stahmer
                      • data analytics
                      • data visualization
                      • corpora
                      • nlp
                      • project management
                      • project report
                      • tools
                      • text mining
                      • digital archives
                      • topic modeling
                      • word embeddings
                      • corpus exploration
                      • visualizations
                      EN

                      We articulate a design principle of textual dimensionality in a free and open-access web tool for exploring the EEBO-TCP early modern English corpus

                      The Digital Environmental Humanities (DEH) in the Anthropocene: Challenges and Opportunities in an Era of Ecological Precarity
                      • John Ryan
                      • Lydia Hearn
                      • Paul Longley Arthur
                      • access
                      • data curation
                      • dh
                      • ecocriticism
                      • interdisciplinarity
                      • digital environmental humanities
                      • anthropocene
                      • citizen ecohumanities
                      • perennial eco-archiving
                      • human-plant relations
                      • digital botanical humanities
                      • environmental storytelling
                      • environmental justice
                      EN
                      DH as Data: Establishing Greater Access through Sustainability
                      • Alex Kinnaman
                      • Corinne Guimont
                      • access
                      • data curation
                      • project management
                      • project report
                        EN

                        Unlocking Digital Humanities access: Discover how treating DH as traditional data drives sustainability and accessibility - Insights from our Virginia Tech study! #DigitalHumanities #DHasData @VTLibraries @alex_kinnaman @CorinneMayV

                        Visualizing a Series: Aggregate Compositional Analysis of Botticelli's Commedia
                        • Nathaniel Corley
                        • data visualization
                        • manuscripts
                        • visual art
                        • Renaissance
                        • Botticelli
                        • compositional analysis
                        • heatmaps
                        EN

                        Botticelli's drawings of Dante's Divina Commedia — an enigmatic series of works that resists standard art-historical interpretation — take on new meaning when deciphered through digital art history techniques, exposing a nuanced interplay between image and text that departs from centuries of manuscript tradition.

                        Starting and Sustaining Digital Humanities/Digital Scholarships Centers: Lessons from the Trenches
                        • Lynne Siemens
                        • dh
                        • collaboration
                        • infrastructure
                          EN

                          Looking to start a DH/DS center, look to established centers for lessons from the trenches.