Thinking activity Digital Humanities

 

Hello friends, I am Kishan Jadav from department of English. And here discuss about Digital humanities.This task gives us a new sense to see how the world is actually. Ok friends, now we talk about today's topic…

1) Learning outcome of the edX MOOC on Introduction to Digital Humanities 

Introduction:

    First question is in our mind that What is Digital Humanities? and What is meaning of Digital Humanities? How is it helpful to us ? What's It Doing in English Departments? So let's find this answers and also talk about CLiC 's thematic activity.

What is Digital Humanities ? 

According to Wikipedia source,

Digital humanities (DH) is an area of scholarly activity at the intersection of computing or digital technologies and the disciplines of the humanities. It includes the systematic use of digital resources in the humanities, as well as the analysis of their application. 

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. It involves investigation, analysis, synthesis and presentation of information in electronic form. It studies how these media affect the disciplines in which they are used, and what these disciplines have to contribute to our knowledge of computing. 

What is the need of Digital Humanities ? 

The question that comes to our mind is, after all What is the importance and need of digital humanities ? So the digital humanities teaches us how to become Real Human being. That humanities sees that people will not become a Robot. 

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. 

We see the simultaneous explosion of interest in e-reading and e-book devices like the Kindle, iPad, and Nook and the advent of large-scale text digitization projects, the most significant of course being Google Books.

The openness of English departments to cultural studies, where computers and other objects of digital material culture become the centerpiece of analysis. 

A modest but much-promoted belle-lettristic project around hypertext and other forms of electronic literature that continues to this day and is increasingly vibrant and diverse.

The widespread means to implement electronic archives.

After numeric input, text has been by far the most tractable datatype for computers to manipulate. Unlike images, audio, video, and so on, there is a long tradition of text-based data processing that was within the capabilities of even some of the earliest computer systems and that has for decades fed research in fields like stylistics, linguistics, and author attribution studies, all heavily associated with English departments.

There is the long association between computers and composition, almost as long and just as rich in its lineage.

The Harvard course is divided into 5 different chapters. So let's discuss whatever I have learnt from each of them. 

In the first chapter we cane see the introduction of the digital humanities and do some data and become poem activitie.

In the 2nd chapter we come to know about project tools and the questions they support. Project is Visualizing Broadway. These projects are very useful for academic purposes. 

In the 3rd chapter understand for meIt consists of topics like Data can be stored in a variety of different file types. Read on to learn about the major file types that you will encounter in Digital Humanities projects, along with the advantages and limitations of using each one. Specifically, we will cover plain text, CSV, Text, JSON, HTML, XML, Binary, MP3, and WAV file types. 

In the Chapter 4 is quite difficult. In this chapter I have learnt how to do commands. Also come across some of the interesting words like command language interpreter (CLI) character user interface (CUI)

Here are the name os some project:

China Biographical Database 

The Imperria Proejct

Neural Neighbors

 The Oxford Friars Project. 

Harvard Library Scanned Maps Project. 

Digital Giza 

Professor Racha Kirakosian discusses her medieval manuscript text editing project with one of her students, Eleanor Goerss.

Professor Kelly O'Neill describes her work called The Imperiia Project, a historical mapping and study of the Russian empire.

A library is often the first place, or among the first places, that you might turn to when looking for data and other sources that you want to incorporate into your research. Libraries face many new and exciting challenges today as they grapple with how to help researchers produce digital scholarship, and how they will store and disseminate that digital scholarship when it's finished. 

2) Complete at least one thematic activity from CLIC Activity book. Write your interpretation of the activity.

Now I would like to discuss CLiC activity. This is a very interesting activity for digital humanities. The full form of CLiC is Corpus Linguistics in Context. It was also a useful Activity to read the data. 

This CLiC activity gives us every little information also. Let's understand it through some examples :-

In this activity we have to look at the noun chin. We can find different ways in which the noun is used to describe fictional characters. To begin with, we can check how frequently chins appear in Dickens compared with other authors, or compared with general usage. You can also try !

Activity 9.1 Looking for chins in Dickens :-

1. Go to the CLiC Concordance tab (http://clic.bham.ac.uk/concordance).

2. Select DNov – Dickens’s Novels in the “Search the Corpora” box. DNov is a corpus of all of Dickens’s novels. 

3. In “Only in subsets”, make sure “All text” is selected. and select the subset “All text”. 

4. In ‘Search for terms”, enter chin. Hit Return. 

Here is what I got -

This will give you a set of concordance lines in which chin appears across Dickens’s works.