Digital Humanities
What is Digital Humanities?
The interface between
Humanities enquiry
and
Digital tools and methods.
The Digital Humanities is a Big Tent
- Archiving and Digitization
- Digital Storytelling and Electronic Literature
- Digital Pedagogy
- Computational Humanities
Computational Humanities
- data driven
- computing/counting elements
- use of algorithms to study
- texts,
- cultural artifacts and
- historical data
Factors enabling Computational Humanities
History of computing
Axis-Allied Spy wars in WWII
IBM and Fr. Roberto Busa
Shift from sequential to non-sequential computing
Exponential growth of computing power
Emphasis on Cyber Security post 9/11 attacks on World Trade Centre
Surveillance systems for protection of intellectual property
Data analystics for market research
Techniques for Computational Research in the Humanities
Text Mining and Analysis
Sentiment Analysis
Topic Modelling
Stylometry
Network Analysis
Spatial Analysis
Text Encoding Initiative
Cultural Analytics
Analysis of Audio and Visual Material
Audi-Annotate
Photogrammetry
Examples of Computational Research
Wikipedia N-grams
Identifying Wikipedia edit wars using
N-grams analysis on the corpus of provenance of Wikipedia pages concerning historical figures
Eng Lit curriculum
A large data study of English Literature syllabi of top Indian universities to measure the extent of decolinization.
Cultural History of South Asia
Distant view of historical linkages between South Asia and the world.
Try you hand at it
Voyant Tools
Text Analysis
Palladio
Network and Spatial Analysis
Get in touch
arjunghosh@hss.iitd.ac.in