Agenda for 3 June 2017

Organisational

Short Recap of This Semester and Outlook to Next Semester

"Figurative System of organisation of human knowledge from the Encyclopédie" (1752).

• Theory
  • definitions of Digital Humanities
  • what is data
  • data formats, file formats
  • linked open data (via DBpedia, Wikidata)
  • Distant Reading (history, theory and practice)
  • Corpus Studies
  • digital editions
  • Visual Analytics (and the historicity of its methods)
  • Network Analysis
  • GIS
  • Wiki technologies

• Readings
  • Moretti's "Conjectures" and "Network Theory, Plot Analysis"

• Practice
  • Stylometry ("… or how do you know it's Shakespeare?")
  • Topic Modeling with Mallet
  • first encounters with command line
  • network analysis with Gephi
  • genesis of a Wikipedia article

• Next Semester
  • learning to code will be main topic (as basis for natural language processing, text analysis and other things)

Preparation of Colloquium

We expect a short 5–10-minute presentation on your idea, approach and experience.

• Assessment criteria:
  • content and writing style (use your own words, no copy & paste from other web pages)
  • do you give credit in the right way (captions, quotations, footnotes)?
  • do you make use of imagery or other media files (if applicable)?
  • do you upload own material to Wikimedia Commons?
  • do you reference geocoordinates (for places or historic events)?
  • how did you handle the upload to Wikipedia and what happened afterwards?
  • overall creativity!

Btw, should you still lack a good idea for an article, this one needs some work: Цифровые гуманитарные науки

Wiki-Related

• biases in Wikipedia
• the tree of Diderot and d'Alembert and the Wikipedia article graph (example around the 'writer' category)