Find research data repositories for the humanities – the data deposit recommendation service

Introduction: Finding suitable research data repositories that best match the technical or legal requirements of your research data is not always an easy task. This paper, authored by Stephan Buddenbohm, Maaikew de Jong, Jean-Luc Minel and Yoann Moranville showcase the demonstrator instance of the Data Deposit Recommendation Service (DDRS), an application built on top of the re3data database specifically for scholars working in the Humanities domain. The paper also highlights further directions of developing the tool, many of which implicitly bring sustainability issues to the table.

Collaboration

Transkribus & Magazines: Transkribus’ Transcription & Recognition Platform (TRP) as Social Machine…

Posted on July 26, 2018July 27, 2018
by Helen Katsiadakis

Introduction: This article proposes establishing a good collaboration between FactMiners and the Transkribus project that will help the Transkribus team to evolve the “sustainable virtuous” ecosystem they described as a Transcription & Recognition Platform — a Social Machine for Job Creation & Skill Development in the 21st Century!

Analysis

rOpenSci | Exploratory Data Analysis of Ancient Texts with rperseus

Posted on April 20, 2018April 23, 2018
by Delfim Leao

Introduction: The rperseus package provides classicists and other people interested in ancient philology and exegesis with corpora of texts from the ancient world (based on the Perseus Digital Library), combined with a toolkit designed to compare passages and selected words with parallels where the same expressions or words occur.

Analysis

The database as a methodological tool

Posted on November 9, 2017November 11, 2017
by Helen Katsiadakis

Introduction: In the context of medieval and early Tudor texts scholarship, this paper discusses the methodological use of the database not simply to store information, but to clarify points of tension between the questions asked and the information provided in order to find answers.

Analysis

Digital Corpora and Scholarly Editions of Latin Texts: Features and Requirements of Textual Criticism

Posted on October 30, 2017November 9, 2017
by Delfim Leao

Introduction: The post discusses the challenges that traditional philological approach has to face in creating digital corpora of critical editions of nonvernacular medieval works.

Archiving

The Drawings of the Florentine Painters: From Print Catalog to Linked Open Data

Posted on October 29, 2017November 9, 2017
by Tamara Butigan

Introduction: This paper describes a project of applying LOD on the traditional catalog metadata.

Analysis

Web Documents Quality Assessment for Digital Humanities Scholars

Posted on October 10, 2017November 9, 2017
by Joris van Zundert

Introduction: Now that sources for research increasingly are digital sources, how do we establish the quality of such sources?

Archiving

On the first Dictionary of the Old Spanish Language (DOSL)

Posted on October 7, 2017November 9, 2017
by Gimena Del Rio

Introduction: A review of the book BITECA: Bibliografia de textos antics catalans, valencians i balears: Biblioteques i Arxius Valencians, by Beltran, Avenoza & Soriano (2013), that is an excuse to explain the technologies used to work on the first Dictionary of the Old Spanish Langauge (DOSL) and other versions at the Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies (HSMS).