Analysis

OpenMethods Spotlights #1: Interview with Hilde De Weerdt about MARKUS

Posted on October 13, 2020October 13, 2020
by Alíz Horváth

OpenMethods Spotlights showcase people and epistemic reflections behind Digital Humanities tools and methods. You can find here brief interviews with the creator(s) of the blogs or tools that are highlighted on OpenMethods to humanize and contextualize them. In the first episode, Alíz Horváth is talking with Hilde de Weerdt at Leiden University about MARKUS, a tool that offers offers a variety of functionalities for the markup, analysis, export, linking, and visualization of texts in multiple languages, with a special focus on Chinese and now Korean as well.

Analysis

MARKUS – Comprehensive tool with the needs of non-Latin script users in mind

Posted on October 11, 2020October 13, 2020
by Alíz Horváth

East Asian studies are still largely underrepresented in digital humanities. Part of the reason for this phenomenon is the relative lack of tools and methods which could be used smoothly with non-Latin scripts. MARKUS, developed by Brent Ho within the framework of the Communication and Empire: Chinese Empires in Comparative Perspective project led by Hilde de Weerdt at Leiden University, is a comprehensive tool which helps mitigate this issue. Selected as a runner up in the category “Best tool or suite of tools” in the DH2016 awards, MARKUS offers a variety of functionalities for the markup, analysis, export, linking, and visualization of texts in multiple languages, with a special focus on Chinese and now Korean as well.

Analysis

Network Visualization with ggplot2

Posted on December 5, 2017April 17, 2018
by Florian CAFIERO

Introduction: This article describes the possibilities offered by the ggplot2 package for network visualization. This R package enables the user to use a wide variety of graphic styles, and to include supplementary information regarding vertices and edges.

Analysis

Towards a Computational Literary Science

Posted on November 16, 2017December 5, 2017
by Francesca Morselli

Introduction: This article introduces a novel way to unfold and discover patterns in complex texts, at the intersection between macro and micro analytics. This technique is called TIC (Transcendental Information Cascades) allows analysis of how a cast of characters is generated and managed dynamically over the duration of a text.

Analysis

How can we improve our web collection?

Posted on October 30, 2017November 9, 2017
by Joris van Zundert

Introduction: How do we improve the quality of the fledgling practice of Web archeology, so much needed now that a first decade of Web information threatens to disappear as current interest wanes but contemporaneous cultural value is undisputed. A National Library of the Netherlands scientific report investigates.

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

Excel vs R: A Brief Introduction to R

Posted on October 26, 2017April 17, 2018
by Florian CAFIERO

Introduction: This post outlines the benefits of using a statistical software such as R for data analysis and visualization in DH, through the study of a correspondence network.

Code

Towards contextual awareness and interoperability in an enhanced VRE: mapping individual metadata schemata to CERIF

Posted on September 20, 2017November 9, 2017
by Helen Katsiadakis

Introduction: This paper describes the process whereby queries of the VRE system expressed in CERIF format are transformed into the metatada formats of the underlying e-Research Infrastructures and conversely, the results are re-transformed into CERIF and presented to the eVRE user.