Open digital humanities: new developments | Opensource.com

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-05-06

Summary:

"Welcome to the third installment of my monthly column, where I explore how open source software and the open source way are used in the digital humanities. Every month I take a look at open source tools you can use in your digital humanities researc, as well as, a few humanities research projects that are using open source tools today. I will also cover news about how transparency and open exchange, and principles of the open source way, being applied to the humanities. Let's start with an explanation of the digital humanities. The digital humanities is where traditional humanities scholarship—or, the academic study of arts, language, history, and the like—meets the digital age. By using technology in new and innovative ways, digital humanities scholars can create research projects that explore topics in ways that were not possible (or were extremely laborious undertakings) before computers. Text/data mining, visualization, information retrieval, and digital publishing are some of the key features of digital humanities research. With computers, it is possible to analyze text, discover patterns, and visualize data with relative ease. In addition, digital projects can be much more accessible to the general public than traditional scholarship. For example, digital humanities projects can build connections to the past, like the The Papers of Abraham Lincoln project is doing with the papers of President Lincoln and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media will be doing by creating learning materials for the President Eisenhower E-Memorial. In April this year, several new tutorials were published along with many other interesting developments. I have highlighted the most interesting of them below. Perhaps one will inspire you in your own digital humanities research, or help you learn about this interesting field of scholarly research ..."

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http://opensource.com/education/15/5/new-open-source-digital-humanities

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oa.new oa.comment oa.tools oa.floss oa.digital_humanities oa.humanities oa.ssh

Date tagged:

05/06/2015, 09:14

Date published:

05/06/2015, 05:13