Essays about: "Digital humanities"
Showing result 36 - 40 of 48 essays containing the words Digital humanities.
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36. WOMENʼS WOVEN WEB - Activating the Biographical Dictionary of Swedish Women through Social Network Narratives
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religionAbstract : When the Biographical Dictionary of Swedish Women (Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon, SKBL), became freely available online, it opened the opportunity to examine and transform its text-based content in new ways. The purpose of this project is to apply and reflect on explorative visualizations of social networks as a method for presenting and analysing data from SKBL. READ MORE
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37. The socioethical concerns associated with Indigenous Oceanic cultural heritage materials
University essay fromAbstract : The rise of postcolonial theories in the 1970s did not yield much influence in the then practice of humanities computing, but following the mass-scale digitisations of cultural heritage materials over the past thirty years questions of Indigenous agency and the colonial roots of the digital cultural record have become more urgent than ever. This thesis operates within the area of postcolonial digital humanities and seeks to explore three questions. READ MORE
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38. Automatic Transcription of Historical Documents : Transkribus as a Tool for Libraries, Archives and Scholars
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för ABMAbstract : Digital libraries and archives are major portals to rich sources of information. They undertake large-scale digitization to enhance their digital collections and offer users valuable text data. When it comes to handwritten documents, usually these are only provided as digitized images and not accompanied by their transcriptions. READ MORE
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39. It’s unbelievable, feels like you’re diving : Potential benefits of Virtual Reality for documentation and analysis in underwater archaeology
University essay from Linköpings universitet/MaskinkonstruktionAbstract : This study examined questions around the scientific validity of using digital 3D models in underwater archaeology and the potential benefits of using virtual reality (VR) as a way of working with said models for documentation and analysis. A workshop with underwater archaeologists at the Swedish National Maritime and Transport Museums was conducted and the results indicate that depending on the research question being examined, there can indeed be validity in using digital 3D models, even if they are at a somewhat lower resolution. READ MORE
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40. “Frankenstein Complex” in the Realm of Digital Humanities : Data Mining Classic Horror Cinema via Media History Digital Library (MHDL)
University essay from Stockholms universitet/FilmvetenskapAbstract : This thesis addresses the complexity of digitalization and humanities research practices, with a specific focus on digital archives and film history research. I propose the term “Frankenstein Complex” to highlight and contextualize the epistemological collision and empirical challenges humanities scholars encounter when utilizing digital resources with digital methods. READ MORE
