Issue 18.2

Special Issue: Using Visual AI Applied to Digital Archives

Edited by Lise Jaillant

Open or Close Research Instruments? Conflicting Rationales in the Organization of Early Digital Medieval History in Europe (1960–1990).
  • Edgar Lejeune
  • dh
  • history
  • standards
  • publishing
  • medieval
  • History of Digital Humanities
  • Digital Medieval History
  • Research Instruments
EN

A history of debates about medievalists circulating early digital research instruments.

Lilypond Music-Notation Software in the Digital-Humanities Toolbox
  • Andrew A. Cashner
  • access
  • editing
  • markup
  • minimal computing
  • music
  • tools
  • users
  • music notation
  • open-source software
  • free software
  • minimal computing
  • semantic markup
  • conversion and exchange
  • musicology
  • publishing
  • editing
  • music encoding
  • workflow
EN

Lilypond music-notation software as a case study: how to make open-source tools work for us.

LemonizeTBX: Design and Implementation of a New Converter from TBX to OntoLex-Lemon
  • Andrea Bellandi
  • Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio
  • Silvia Piccini
  • Federica Vezzani
  • data modeling
  • markup
  • semantic web
  • terminography
  • lexicography
  • TermBase eXchange
  • OntoLex-Lemon
  • data serialisation
EN
Towards a National Data Architecture for Cultural Collections: Designing the Australian Cultural Data Engine
  • Rachel Fensham
  • Tyne Daile Sumner
  • Nat Cutter
  • George Buchanan
  • Rui Liu
  • Justin Munoz
  • James Smithies
  • Ivy Zheng
  • David Carlin
  • Erik Champion
  • Hugh Craig
  • Scott East
  • Chris Hay
  • Lisa M. Given
  • John Macarthur
  • David McMeekin
  • Joanna Mendelssohn
  • Deborah van der Plaat
  • databases
  • info architecture
  • project report
  • data analytics
  • visual art
    EN

    Cultural databases are complicated beasts: rich in their contents and yet often idiosyncratic, siloed, and precarious. This article outlines an innovative workflow and information architecture designed to harness the interoperability of digital resources/records for cultural analytics research without obliterating distinctive domain knowledges.

    Graph based modelling of prosopographical datasets. Case study: Romans 1by1
    • Rada Varga
    • Stefan Bornhofen
    • classics
    • network
    • archaeology
    • relational database
    • graph database
    • prosopography
    • digital classics
    EN

    Graph based modelling was employed to reveal data and details on the lives of the 'ordinary' people who lived in the Roman Empire.

    From Archive to Database: Using Crowdsourcing, TEI, and Collaborative Labor to Construct the Maria Edgeworth Letters Project
    • Hilary Havens
    • Eliza Alexander Wilcox
    • Meredith L. Hale
    • Jamie Kramer
    • collaboration
    • transcription
    • metadata
    • markup
    • archives
    • manuscripts
    • semantic web
    • ethics
    • editing
    • crowdsourcing
    • Zooniverse
    • TEI
    • linked open data
    • Maria Edgeworth
    • name authorities
    • digital archives
    • Romantic period
    • long eighteenth century
    • correspondence
    • controlled vocabularies
    EN

    Our article describes how we are building the Maria Edgeworth Letters Project, an open-access archive containing Maria Edgeworth's correspondence, tracing our steps including image retrieval and processing, metadata generation, transcription, linked open data, and TEI encoding.

    A Review of James Little’s The Making of Samuel Beckett’s Not I / Pas moi, That Time / Cette fois and Footfalls / Pas (2021)
    • Céline Thobois-Gupta
    • digital
    • elit
    • literary studies
    • performance
    • Samuel Beckett
    • genetic criticism
    • mind theory
    • Beckett Digital Manuscript Project
    • performance
    • theatre
    • translation
    EN

    Reviewing James Little's book, The Making of Samuel Beckett’s Not I / Pas moi, That Time / Cette fois and Footfalls / Pas

    A Review of Feminist in a Software Lab: Difference + Design (2018)
    • Diane K. Jakacki
    • dh
    • gender
    • cultural criticism
    • feminism
    • software
    • ethnography
    • content management
    • code
    EN

    Diane Jakacki reviews Tara McPherson's "Feminist in a Software Lab" (2018)