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Getting Started with Humanities Data:
Beginner Tools
Fall 2015 Digital Humanities Workshop Series
digitalhumanities.msu.edu | #msudh
Points of Contact
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Kristen Mapes kmapes@msu.edu | Devin Higgins Thomas Padilla Bobby Smiley dts@mail.lib.msu.edu | Brandon Locke blocke@msu.edu |
Points of Contact
Upcoming Events
September | October | November |
9/16: Reading Group (Programming for Humanists) 9/23: Workshop (Getting Data: Collections, Documents, and the Web) 9/30: Reading Group (Using R for Large Scale Text Analysis) | 10/7: Workshop (Introduction to Data Visualization) 10/14: LOCUS (Digital Pedagogy) 10/21: Workshop (Introduction to Open Web Mapping) 10/23: Invited Speaker (Darwin’s Semantic Voyage: Exploration and Exploitation of Victorian Science in the Reading Notebooks) 10/28: Reading Group (Digital Publishing) | 11/4: Workshop (Introduction to TEI) 11/11: Reading Group (Undergraduate Labor Ethics) 11/18: LOCUS (Visualization and Narration) |
Upcoming Events
September | October | November |
9/16: Reading Group (Programming for Humanists) 9/23: Workshop (Getting Data: Collections, Documents, and the Web) 9/30: Reading Group (Using R for Large Scale Text Analysis) | 10/7: Workshop (Introduction to Data Visualization) 10/14: LOCUS (Digital Pedagogy) 10/21: Workshop (Introduction to Open Web Mapping) 10/23: Invited Speaker (Darwin’s Semantic Voyage: Exploration and Exploitation of Victorian Science in the Reading Notebooks) 10/28: Reading Group (Digital Publishing) | 11/4: Workshop (Introduction to TEI) 11/11: Reading Group (Undergraduate Labor Ethics) 11/18: LOCUS (Visualization and Narration) |
Conferences
| | Web Archiving 2015 | Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities & Computer Science |
9/25/2015 | 9/26/2015 | 11/12-13/2015 | 11/13-15/2015 |
What is Digital Humanities?
presented in digital form (s) | enabled by digital methods and tools | about digital technology and culture | building & experimenting with digital technology | critical of its own digitalness |
Humanistic Scholarship that is ...
Josh Honn, “Never Neutral: Critical Approaches to Digital Tools & Culture in the Humanities.” Last accessed September 9, 2014
Workshop Outline: 9/9/2015
Workshop 9/9/15: Goals
(Data sources)
library originated data
purchased data
negotiated data
unstructured text
metadata
CSV
JSON
subsetter
Digital Humanities Data
Top Languages in Google Books Dataset
Unstructured Data
Born-Digital vs. OCR
Born-Digital
Text typed, copied, or otherwise entered as text into a computer.
OCR (Optical Character Recognition)
Text generated by an automated attempt to “read” each character in an image of text.
unstructured text
metadata
CSV
JSON
Library Catalog Record Page
Author (Corporate)
Title
Publication
Subject
MARC Record,
MARCXML Format
Type of Record
Bibliographic Level
...
Date 1
Date 2
Place of Publication
Presence and type of Illustrations
Form of Item
Nature of contents
Government Publication
Literary Form
Language
...
NYPL Labs Subject Heading Network
unstructured text
metadata
CSV
JSON
CSV (Comma/Character) Separated Values
NAME,TYPE,COLOR
cherry,fruit,red
banana,fruit,yellow
carrot,vegetable,orange
eggplant,vegetable,purple
lime,fruit,green
JSON JavaScript Object Notation
{'fruit': [{'color': 'green', 'name': 'lime'},
{'color': 'yellow', 'name': 'banana'},
{'color': 'red', 'name': 'cherry'}],
'vegetable': [{'color': 'purple', 'name': 'eggplant'},
{'color': 'orange', 'name': 'carrot'}]}
CSV and JSON
Where to Find Data
Voyant
Tutorial for using Voyant 2 Beta: docs.voyant-tools.org/category/workshops
Voyant 1 version: voyant-tools.org
Tutorials for Voyant 1: docs.voyant-tools.org/start
Visualization
Explore: data
Explore: data
Discover: pattern, connection, structure
Communicate: information
. . . many tools
RAW
RAW
RAW
go.cal.msu.edu/data
Palladio: Spatial & Network Viz
RAW Palladio
Palladio: palladio.designhumanities.org
Palladio: palladio.designhumanities.org
Palladio
Pre-loaded sample data available at:
bit.ly/palladiosample
Palladio: people.csv
Palladio: places.csv
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