By accident, I started a Twitter-controversy about the necessity and existence of theory in Digital Humanities. On the way to my office early in the morning, I interpreted a quote of Franco Moretti as if he had said that no research about the theory of Digital Humanities existed, and I wanted to ack...

Forty-Two – The Answer to the Great Question of Life, the Universe and Everything

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Christopher Nunn (9 mai 2019)

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In my last blogpost, I mentioned a frequent resentment of humanists towards DH, namely the opinion that data-driven results are simply meaningless correlations. Where does this attitude come from? Maybe we could find a hint in Douglas Adam’s famous novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, when af...

Ressentiments Towards Digital Humanities And How to Deal With It

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Christopher Nunn (30 nov. 2018)

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Junior researchers who analyse their sources with digital approaches can profit from productive environments where the advantages and potentials of these techniques are well known and established. In Germany, for example, this is the case if they are in the lucky position to work in one of the (fort...

Avoiding Nightmares in Teaching Digital Methods

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Christopher Nunn (3 août 2018)

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„One can’t go wrong with this,“ I thought. Well – now I know better! In an academic exercise, I presented some digital methods to teacher trainees. I wanted to enable them to use these methods deliberately later in school. The required tools were as simple as possible. It was important that they wer...

Searching for the Key of Knowledge: Gender Studies in Augustine’s Correspondence

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Christopher Nunn (27 juin 2018)

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Research about late antique women is often very difficult due to a glaring lack of sources. Letters addressed to women are rare, writings of women even rarer. The correspondence of the bishop of Hippo Regius, Augustine, written between 386 and 430 AD, is no exception. Despite 252 letters written by...

Veni Vidi Vici? Using the TreeTagger on Latin Texts

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Christopher Nunn (16 avr. 2018)

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"I think, yes, it’s also available with Latin texts," Ines Rehbein and Josef Ruppenhofer answered during a lecture in one of our InFoDiTex sessions on my request. Immediately, I was electrified – to me this was a magic moment, because in most of the digital humanities conferences and summer schools,...

Call for Abstracts: "From Global to Local? Digitale Methoden in den Geisteswissenschaften im deutschsprachigen Raum: Ein Triptychon" (Deadline 14.05.2024)

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Christian Wachter (3 avr. 2024)

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Die deutschsprachigen Digital Humanities sind von wechselvollen Entwicklungen gekennzeichnet. Dabei spielen unterschiedliche disziplinäre und interdisziplinäre Kontexte der Wissensproduktionen am Schnittpunkt von Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften, Informatik, Informationsverarbeitung und Information...

OpenMethods introduction to: Getting started with OpenRefine – Digital Humanities 201

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Christopher Nunn

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Introduction: Open Refine, the freely accessible successor to Google Refine, is an ideal tool for cleaning up data series and thus obtaining more sustainable results. Entries can be searched in alphabetical order or sorted by frequency, so that typing errors or slightly different variants can be eas...

OpenMethods introduction to: Worthäufigkeiten als Quelle für die Geschichtswissenschaft? – Einblicke in die Digital Humanities

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Christopher Nunn

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Introduction: Especially humanities scholars (not only historians) who have not yet had any contact with the Digital Humanities, Silke Schwandt offers a motivating and vivid introduction to see the potential of this approach, using the analysis of word frequencies as an example. With the help of Voy...

OpenMethods introduction to: Audio-Dateien zusammenführen und konvertieren in Audacity (Windows)

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Erzsebet Tóth-Czifra

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Introduction: As online became the default means of teaching globally, the thoughtful use of online technologies will play an even more critical role in our everyday life. In this post, Christopher Nunn guides you through how to publish your lectures as podcasts as MP3 with the help of the open sour...

OpenMethods introduction to: Research COVID-19 with AVOBMAT

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Christopher Nunn

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Introduction: In our guidelines for nominating content, databases are explicitly excluded. However, this database is an exception, which is not due to the burning issue of COVID-19, but to its exemplary variety of digital humanities methods with which the data can be processed.AVOBMAT makes it possi...

OpenMethods introduction to: Web Scraping with Python for Beginners | The Digital Orientalist

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Christopher Nunn

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Introduction: In this blog post, James Harry Morris introduces the method of web scraping. Step by step from the installation of the packages, readers are explained how they can extract relevant data from websites using only the Python programming language and convert it into a plain text file. Each...

Ein kurzer Aufriss: Digitale Methoden in der Lehrer*innen-(Aus)Bildung

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Autor/in (3 déc. 2019)

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Von Stefan Karcher und Christopher Nunn Es ist längst kein Geheimnis mehr: Digitale Forschungs- und Lehrmethoden haben in die akademische Ausbildung von Lehramtskandidat*innen Einzug gehalten und werden an vielen Standorten von engagierten und interessierten Dozent*innen im regulären Seminarcurricul...

OpenMethods introduction to: Narrelations — Visualizing Narrative Levels and their Correlations with Temporal Phenomena

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Christopher Nunn

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Introduction: Introduction by OpenMethods Editor (Christopher Nunn): Information visualizations are helpful in detecting patterns in large amounts of text and are often used to illustrate complex relationships. Not only can they show descriptive phenomena that could be revealed in other ways, albeit...

OpenMethods introduction to: Do humanists need BERT?

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Christopher Nunn

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Introduction: Ted Underwood tests a new language representation model called “Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers” (BERT) and asks if humanists should use it. Due to its high degree of difficulty and its limited success (e.g. in questions of genre detection) he concludes, that th...

OpenMethods introduction to: Little package, big dependency

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Introduction: The world of R consists of innumerous packages. Most of them have very little download rates because they are limited to certain functions as part of a larger argument. Based on a surprising experience with the small package clipr Matthew Lincoln shares his thoughts about this receptio...

InFoDiTex - Interdisziplinäres Forum digitaler Textwissenschaften (Interdisciplinary Forum of Digital Textual Sciences)

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Maria Becker (19 nov. 2018)

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Heute möchten wir euch das InFoDiTex vorstellen, ein interdisziplinäres Forum digitaler Textwissenschaften an der Universität Heidelberg. Das von Stefan Karcher und Christopher Nunn gegründete Forum ist ein Treffpunkt für NachwuchswissenschaftlerInnen und MasterandInnen, um einmal im Monat Theorie u...