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So In this blog I would like to talk about one most interesting topic. It's a Digital Humanities. This blog is the part of my thinking activity in classroom. It's very intersting topic and you also enjoy this after the reading.
In that for our better understanding sir gave us the task to join the course of Howard University. And we we will give to answers also in that particular context.
Digital Humanities:-
"The digital humanities, also known as humanities computing, is a field of study, research, teaching, and invention concerned with the intersection of computing and the disciplines of the humanities. It is methodological by nature and interdisciplinary in scope."
In that course I find one qoute from the book digital Humanities:-
"The digital environment offers expanded possibilities for exploring multiple approaches to what constitutes knowledge and what methods qualify as valid for production. This implies that the 8-page essay and the 25-page research paper will have to make room for the game design, the multi-player narrative, the video mash-up, the online exhibit and other new forms and formats as pedagogical exercises. Playful, imaginative, participatory work is not the enemy of education but its exuberant and vital engine. New standards of assessments will be necessary as skills change. We struggle less to remember facts than we do to remember where and how to find them--and how to assess their validity." (Digital Humanities, 24-25)
Which kind of role of Digital Humanities?
Digital humanities have a connection with the English departments. These are the reasons given by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum to explain what DH is doing in English Departments.
In the First section I learnt that I am able to List tools of data analysis that can be applied to text in any language, space, networks, images, and statistical analysis.
Evaluate existing digital platforms based on features that can be used for data analysis within such fields as literature, history, art, and music.
In the second section was about more detail how specific people created and delivered their own digital humanities projects. The examples in this section include a discussion about each project and then a demonstration of some of the tools that were used to create that project.
They mentioned that as you learn more about these projects and their corresponding tools, keep in mind tools or ideas that you might find useful to your own work and interests.
From the sources and we can see that also but you.
I learnt so many things from this course and among them I mention here some tools which is I like most:-
List tools of data analysis that can be applied to text in any language, space, networks, images, and statistical analysis.
World Map:- world map developed by the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard University, is an open source tool which includes thousands of maps and map layers. In the following video you will hear how one faculty member has made use of World Map.
CSV:-
Comma Separated Value (CSV) is a file format built upon the foundation of plain text. That is to say, any CSV file is, strictly speaking, also a plain text file. While the term “plain text” is often used to emphasize that a file contains unstructured text, on a technical level any valid CSV file is also a valid plain text file, and thus can be opened in a text editor, word processor, or other application capable of processing plain text.
JSON:-
JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), like CSV, is a file format built upon the foundation of plain text. JSON files represent information logically composed in two types of structure: lists of items, in which items occur in sequence one after another, and dictionaries of items, in which every item is associated with a unique key (or label) which identifies or names that item. In each case, an item can be either a string (a piece of text), a list, or a dictionary.
HTML:-
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is a format used to represent complex documents. For instance, the vast majority of web pages are primarily represented in HTML.
XML:-
eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is a format with many similarities to HTML, and is used to represent complex documents in a way that can be reliably processed automatically. XML is different from HTML, however, in that XML primarily specifies the syntax of a language.
Binary Files:-
File types can be separated into two classes: text-based formats, and binary (i.e. non-text-based) formats.
There are a variety of different ways to get Digital Humanities data.
And I also learnt to Identify the differences between unstructured, semi-structured, and structured data.
Unstructured Data:-
Unstructured data is data that is not organized into distinct, pre-defined semantic units. Typically, this means textual data, which could be a written account, literary work, newspaper article, or anything else represented as text.
Structured Data:-
Structured data is data organized according to some particular data model, which explicitly defines the structure of the data.
Semi-structured Data:-
Semi-structured data is data which does not conform to a formal data model, but uses formal constructs to indicate separate semantic elements within the data.
Here I would like to mention some examples from this course:-
Examples :-
1)another example of a digital humanities project, Professor Racha Kirakosian discusses her medieval manuscript text editing project with one of her students, Eleanor Goerss. The project, Exploring Medieval Mary Magdalene, uses translation and text encoding to create online versions of medieval manuscripts that describe the legend of Mary Magdalene, a contemporary and follower of Jesus Christ.
can learn more about Professor Kirakosian's project, Exploring Medieval Mary Magdalene, on this website.
2)In the next example, Professor Kelly O'Neill describes her work called The Imperiia Project, a historical mapping and study of the Russian empire.
Humanists make maps for the same reason those in public health, public policy, and urban development make maps. They make maps because they believe that the “where” matters and our job as humanists is to explain why where matters. This section will give you a sense of the process of taking humanistic information sources that you're used to working with, such as letters, documents from archives, imperial decrees, travel accounts, postcards, historical maps themselves, and transforming that familiar material into data, and specifically into spatial data.
If we talk about benefits of humanity that Humanists make maps for the same reason those in public health, public policy, and urban development make maps. They make maps because they believe that the “where” matters and our job as humanists is to explain why where matters. This section will give you a sense of the process of taking humanistic information sources that you're used to working with, such as letters, documents from archives, imperial decrees, travel accounts, postcards, historical maps themselves, and transforming that familiar material into data, and specifically into spatial data.
Part of this thinking activity we have to do one activity.
Activity from the Book CLiC:-
I did activity 15.2 Austen’s governesses
1. Go to the CLiC Concordance tab (http://clic.bham.ac.uk/concordance).
2. Select novels by Jane Austen in the “Search the Corpora” box. You can start
typing “Austen” and CLiC will show all of Austen’s novels which you then
need to select one by one.
3. Select the subset “All text”.
4. Under “Search for terms”, type the word governess.
After doing this activity I got concordance that looks like this:-
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