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Digital Humanities: an Historical Perspective
Jane OhlmeyerTrinity College Dublin
My backgroundProfessor of Modern History 1641 Depositions Project and TCD-igital initiatives Digital Humanities ObservatoryChair of Irish Manuscripts Committee on DigitizationChair of IRCHSS/DARIAH CommitteeIrish representative on ESFRI, DARIAH, MSEG for EDL - Europeana
The Ugly Duckling
The History …
Digital Humanities is a field of research concerned with the intersection of computing, information management and the disciplines of the humanitiesRoberto A. BusaRossetti archive (http://www.rossettiarchive.org/) Valley of the Shadow project (http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/) New questions and new knowledge
when there is so much information?
How can we still think
Do we remember the past?
or do we risk repeating it?
The Challenges in Current Research Practices
LinearityIsolated activityLayered approachManual practicesDisconnected materials The Trinity-Microsoft Virtual Research Environment
Why the Humanities?
Dirty, noisy data Technology deficient researchers with strong analytical skillsDigital Content Analysis – text mining, visualization, searchDigital Content Management – personalisation, metadata, interoperability(Web) Services Support – storage, curation and preservation(Web) Social Networking – crowd sourcing, community annotation, social network analysis, knowledge extraction
A Case Study: the 1641 Depositions
Conservation
‘that one whoe was a Scochman pinched with extreame hunger privately in the night tyme opened the grave of a man that was buried within the liberties of the Castle and fed vpon the dead and
buried mans flesh Some of the souldjers of the Castle partly espyring him tooke ayme & thincking him an enemy shott
him through soe that he dyed, And that Scochmans wife afterwards hanged to
death her owne child and eate her flesh for want of meate:’
TCD MS 814, County Offaly (King’s County),
Deposition of Joseph Joice, who gave details of
cannibalism that occurred in that county.
Dirty, Noisy Data
The victim provides a
detailed list of his losses including
cattle, horses, sheep, tithes and his farm
to the value of £1570.
TCD MS 814, King’s County (Offaly), Deposition of Henry Knowles, 24 August 1642
TCD MS 839, fols 113r-114vDeposition of Thomas Windsor, Londonderry
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