scholarly journals Towards Digital Histories of Women’s Suffrage Movements: A Feminist Historian’s Journey to the World of Digital Humanities

2020 ◽  
pp. 149-163
Author(s):  
Heidi Kurvinen
Keyword(s):  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Feminist Research ◽  
Gender History ◽  
Digital History ◽  
Feminist History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Digital Methods ◽  
Feminist Historian ◽  
Research Questions

This chapter discusses the various practical, epistemological and methodological issues of importance when a historical scholar with limited digital skills wants to take a step towards learning how to conduct digital analyses. As a feminist historian, the author combines this approach with a discussion of the relation of feminist research and digital humanities. In line with practice in feminist research, she uses a self-reflexive approach and asks how the increase in the understanding of digital methods influences research questions in feminist history. Do digital humanities tools transform the work as feminist historians? How can digital analyses develop the field of gender history in general and the history of feminism in particular? Can a scholar who has limited technological skills engage with an informed and critical discussion with digitised materials? In doing this the chapter provides an inside reflective history of the making of digital history.

scholarly journals Building Historical Knowledge Byte by Byte: Infrastructures and Data Management in Modern Scholarship

2020 ◽  
pp. 89-102
Author(s):  
Jessica Parland-von Essen
Keyword(s):  
Data Management ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Digital History ◽  
Good Data ◽  
Provenance Data ◽  
Data Lifecycle ◽  
Digital Methods ◽  
New Challenges

This chapter describes how the new emerging digital environment challenges historians’ existing training and practice of source criticism. In an environment with increasing amounts of digitized data and digital methods there are new requirements for historians to develop new skills as well as new more extensive provenance data. Historians are faced with new challenges regarding new increasing demands for transparency and open scholarship that has comes with the growth of digital humanities in general and with digital history in particular. The old demands that historical research has to be well documented and reproducible has to be adapted to the promises and pitfalls of the new digital environment which especially means developing and adapting new standards and practices for what counts as good data management. The study discusses how the FAIR data principles can offer valuable guidance, but also how they cannot be implemented without supporting services that take into account different types of data and the data lifecycle.

scholarly journals HISTÓRIA DIGITAL, SOCIOLOGIA DIGITAL E HUMANIDADES DIGITAIS: Algumas questões metodológicas

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 74
Author(s):  
Helyom Viana Telles
Keyword(s):  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Specific Problem ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Digital History ◽  
Scientific Objectivity ◽  
Digital Methods

O artigo discute o conceito de Digital e a constituição do campo das Humanidades Digitais, destacando alguns problemas específicos inerentes à Sociologia, Antropologia e Historiografia. O artigo explicita a polêmica em torno do conceito de digital e pontua algumas questões metodológicas relevantes para a construção da objetividade científica no uso dos métodos digitais no campo da Historiografia e das Humanidades Digitais. PALAVRAS-CHAVES: História Digital, Humanidades Digitais, Sociologia Digital.     ABSTRACT The article discusses the concept of Digital and the constitution of the field of Digital Humanities, highlighting some specific problem sinherent in Sociology, Anthropology and Historiography. The article explores the controversy surrounding the concept of digital and points out some methodological issues relevantto the construction of scientific objectivity in the use of digital methods in the field of Historiography and Digital Humanities.   KEYWORDS: Digital History, Digital Humanities, Digital Sociology.     RESUMEN El artículo discute el concepto de Digital y la constitución del campo de las Humanidades Digitales, destacando algunos problemas específicos inherentes a la Sociología, Antropología y Historiografía. El artículo explicita la polémica en torno al concepto de digital y puntualiza algunas cuestiones metodológicas relevantes para la construcción de la objetividad científica en el uso de los métodos digitales en el campo de la Historiografía y de las Humanidades Digitales.   PALABRAS CLAVES: Historia Digital, Humanidades Digitales, Sociología Digital.

scholarly journals Defining Regions of Pre-Colonial Africa: A Controlled Vocabulary for Linking Open-Source Data in Digital History Projects

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Henry B. Lovejoy ◽  
Paul E. Lovejoy ◽  
Walter Hawthorne ◽  
Edward A. Alpers ◽  
Mariana Candido ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Controlled Vocabulary ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Digital History ◽  
Open Source Data ◽  
Source Data ◽  
Slave Traders ◽  
History Of

Abstract Regionalizing pre-colonial Africa aids in the collection and interpretation of primary sources as data for further analysis. This article includes a map with six broad regions and 34 sub-regions, which form a controlled vocabulary within which researchers may geographically organize and classify disparate pieces of information related to Africa’s past. In computational terms, the proposed African regions serve as data containers in order to consolidate, link, and disseminate research among a growing trend in digital humanities projects related to the history of the African diasporas before c. 1900. Our naming of regions aims to avoid terminologies derived from European slave traders, colonialism, and modern-day countries.

scholarly journals How much is the glitch? Das digitale Paradigma als Herausforderung und Chance für die historische Musikwissenschaft

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Pasdzierny
Keyword(s):  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
Music Culture ◽  
Historical View ◽  
History Of ◽  
Central Paradigm ◽  
Cultural Developments

Musicology has long since been established as central part of the so-called Digital Humanities. For many areas of music culture as a whole, digitization is considered the central paradigm of our time. But what exactly does this mean, and is it not unusual for technical and cultural developments to be thrown through and into each other? In literary studies as well as in cultural and contemporary history, a critical discussion has already begun on the multiple narratives and projections about „(post)digitality“, which are particularly common in science itself. Against this background, the article pleads for taking digitality seriously as an object of investigation in historical musicology (and possibly also in the history of musicology) and for initiating a corresponding field of research. For example, what promises and debates about loss associated with digitality can be observed within music culture at different times and in different contexts, but also what sources could provide information about this. The introduction of the CD in the 1980s and the emergence of the EDM sub-genre Glitch in the mid-1990s serve as starting examples for such a critical-historical view of and on digitality.

scholarly journals Philologie und Digitalität. Perspektiven für die Musikwissenschaft im Kontext fächerübergreifender Institutionen

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrich Konrad
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Data Structures ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Linguistic Conventions ◽  
Digital Methods ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
New Research ◽  
The University

Currently, the qualitative spectrum of methods in the philological sciences is being substantially expanded, with far-reaching implications, through the integration of the empirical, quantitative, and evaluative possibilities of the Digital Humanities. The example of the planning and establishment of „Kallimachos,“ the Center for Philology and Digitality (ZPD) at the University of Würzburg, demonstrates how a research center in the field of interplay between the humanities and cultural studies, digital humanities, and computer science can bring about a surge of change by providing in-depth insights into each other‘s subjects and ways of thinking. It not only brings with it a new view of the epistemological interests of philology, its questions, its canon, and its key concepts, but also makes computer science aware of the ‚recalcitrance‘ of humanities subjects and thus confronts it with new tasks. The ZPD is the result of a systematic reflection on the digital transformation of philology, with its traditional focus on editing and analyzing, in order to advance this development both in terms of content and methodology. For example, the formation of linguistic conventions in speaking and writing about music in 19th-century composers‘ texts and in music journals would be an ideal subject for the application of digital methods of analysis and the development of new research questions based on them. Research networks that jointly develop and rethink methods on the level of data structures across disciplines are likely to be a proven means of preserving our own discipline in the future, even if this may occasionally be a relationship borne more by reason than by love.

scholarly journals Introduction: Digital History in African Studies

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 269-274
Author(s):  
Jennifer Hart
Keyword(s):  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
African Studies ◽  
Digital History ◽  
Methodological Innovation ◽  
Historical Representation ◽  
Digital Scholarship ◽  
History Of

AbstractThis brief introduction to a special section on Digital History in African Studies situates three articles on recent digital humanities initiatives among African historians within the broader histories of the use of digital methodologies in the study of Africa. In particular, it highlights the way that Africanist digital scholarship sits at the intersection of digital historical representation, community engagement, and academic research. While Africanist digital history builds on the work of a much broader digital humanities community, historians of Africa also draw on their discipline’s long history of methodological innovation to raise important questions about the potential contributions and limitations of digital technologies in academic research.

scholarly journals Digital Humanities and Media History

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Huub Wijfjes
Keyword(s):  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Media History ◽  
Concrete Research ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Digital Collections ◽  
Important Challenge ◽  
Digital Methods ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Digital Newspaper

Digital humanities is an important challenge for more traditional humanities disciplines to take on, but advanced digital methods for analysis are not often used to answer concrete research questions in these disciplines. This article makes use of extensive digital collections of historical newspapers to discuss the promising, yet challenging relationship between digital humanities and historical research. The search for long-term patterns in digital historical research appropriately positions itself within previous approaches to historical research, but the digitization of sources presents many practical and theoretical questions and obstacles. For this reason, any digital source used in historical research should be critically reviewed beforehand. Digital newspaper research raises new issues and presents new possibilities to better answer traditional questions.

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