Rather than get lost in the semantic battle of defining disciplines (What is/are the digital humanities?), this presentation explores how we as humanists can use data to help us think through our humanities questions, evidence, and argument. Drawing from ‘digital’ and ‘data science’ methods of experimental design and operationalizing, I shared my data science project on the library of congress collection of Vietnamese materials.
This talk was part of the “Texts as Data—Data as Texts” Seminar and Workshop at Yonsei University in Seoul on January 12, 2017.
Texts as Data—Data as Texts: This informal workshop is an opportunity for participants to consider how texts might be read as data and, conversely, how data might be read as texts. What opportunities for insight, discovery, and inspiration are presented by investigating the “weave” of what is “given” as data and the givens of what has been woven into texts? Presenters will offer ideas about the relationship between texts and data in the morning session and present new tools for de/constructing data and con/texts in the afternoon.
Sponsors: UIC History Research Institute • Korea Text Initiative, Cambridge Institute for the Study of Korea
Panel Presentations and Discussion
10:00AM-11:30AM
10:00-10:30am
“Interactive Writing and Reading: Digital Humanities in the Classroom”
Chad Denton
Associate Professor of History, Underwood International College, Yonsei University
Hyunju Bae
Economics, BA (class of 2011), Underwood International College, Yonsei University
10:30-11:00am
“Computational Bibliography and the Sociology of Data”
Wayne de Fremery
Associate Professor, Department of Global Korean Studies, Sogang University
Director, Korea Text Initiative, Cambridge Institute for the Study of Korea
11:00-11:30am
“Operationalizing Historical Questions: Datafying the Library of Congress Vietnam Collection”
Cindy A. Nguyen
Ph.D. Candidate, History Department, University of California, Berkeley
Tools for De/constructing Data and Con/texts
12:30PM-2:30PM
12:30-1pm
Reading by Machines: Open Refine on OCR Output Data
Cindy A. Nguyen
1:00-1:30pm
Mo文oN_Cut&Search, Toward an Alternative to OCR
Wayne de Fremery
1:30-2:00pm
Creating an Interactive Paper: HTML with Notepad++
Chad Denton and Hyunju Bae
Cindy A. Nguyen 