One Culture. Computationally Intensive Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, A Report on the Experiences of First Respondents to the Digging Into Data Challenge by Christa Williford and Charles Henry. Research Design by Amy Friedlander.
From the webpage:
This report culminates two years of work by CLIR staff involving extensive interviews and site visits with scholars engaged in international research collaborations involving computational analysis of large data corpora. These scholars were the first recipients of grants through the Digging into Data program, led by the NEH, who partnered with JISC in the UK, SSHRC in Canada, and the NSF to fund the first eight initiatives. The report introduces the eight projects and discusses the importance of these cases as models for the future of research in the academy. Additional information about the projects is provided in the individual case studies below (this additional material is not included in the print or PDF versions of the published report).
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Case Studies:
- Introduction
- Using Zotero and TAPOR on the Old Bailey Proceedings: Data Mining with Criminal Intent (DMCI)
- Digging into the Enlightenment: Mapping the Republic of Letters
- Towards Dynamic Variorum Editions (DVE)
- Mining a Year of Speech
- Harvesting Speech Datasets for Linguistic Research on the Web
- Structural Analysis of Large Amounts of Music Information (SALAMI)
- Digging into Image Data to Answer Authorship Related Questions (DID-ARQ)
- Railroads and the Making of Modern America
Humanists played an important role the development of digital computers. That role has diminished over time to the disadvantage of both humanists and computer scientists. Perhaps efforts such as this one will rekindle what was once a rich relationship.