Digital resources and tools and their use

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"Since tools are now available that make it possible for users to exploit electronic data in a variety of ways, straightforward digitatisation that makes data available quickly is preferable to a critical edition which is never finished, even if less scholarly value is added." (Ore, 2009, p. 113)

 

 

 

The research will focus on two main fields:


- Creation of an index of tools for all stages of the production of digital editions and/or resources about digital history,  and applied linguistics. Survey the community for existing tools and publication frameworks.


- Evaluate accessibility and usability. Identify users and the methodologies applied in the use of Digital Humanities resources.

Investigation of Digital Humanities resources and tools.

It could take into account:

 

  • Digital editions
  • Digital libraries
  • Methods and tools for the corpus annotation of historical and contemporary written texts
  • Text Analysis
  • Annotations
  • Study, assessment, evaluation, theorization of the integration and possible enhancement of tools in digital editions

 

Who is using DH tools and resources, and for what purpose?

  • Are they being used by students, academics, and researchers? In teaching?

 

  • Where are users encountering these tools?

 

  • In what ways have they been used?

- Assess and evaluate scale of use and utility of the various DH applications and methods, through:

  •  interviews
  •  users' papers, scholarly articles, etc.
  • quantitative research; big data, statistical and network analysis. (Retrieval data: XML-related languages, relational database, python, r)

How can tools and resources be best utilised?

Pilot projects for students and researchers:

 

RAOP - Rhetorical Annotation Ontology Project

  • which comprises multiple levels of annotations, text-analysis and text representation.
  • it will allow students and researchers to map rhetorical aspects of written and oral texts.
  • An ontology, based on W3C Linked data and Semantic Web, will be a powerful model to represent the complexity of hierarchical and non-hierarchical structures such as a rhetorical system.

 

- http://bakulf.github.io/raop/ 

 

Possible collaborators include :

 

 - TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) - Oxford University Computing Services

 

- Digital Humanities centres such as UCL, DigiLab - University of Rome 'La Sapienza', University of Cologne, and University of Grenoble.

 

- DIXIT - Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network

Many thanks for your attention.

Sheffield

By tiziana_m

Sheffield

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