Data Analytics in Digital Humanities

This book covers computationally innovative methods and technologies including data collection and elicitation, data processing, data analysis, data visualizations, and data presentation. It explores how digital humanists have harnessed the hypersociality

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Data Analytics in Digital Humanities

Multimedia Systems and Applications Series editor Borko Furht, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, USA

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/6298

Shalin Hai-Jew Editor

Data Analytics in Digital Humanities

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Editor Shalin Hai-Jew Kansas State University Manhattan, KS, USA

Multimedia Systems and Applications ISBN 978-3-319-54498-4 ISBN 978-3-319-54499-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-54499-1 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017935738 © Springer International Publishing AG 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland

This book is for R. Max.

Preface

The digital humanities, putatively the intersection between the humanities disciplines and computation, was popularized in the early 1990s. In the intervening decades, the “digital humanities” has not yet settled on a defined self-identity. One indicator of this is that of the dozens of “DH” manifestos on the Web; they all have differing and competing visions for the field. Another indicator is the rich variety of work being done under these auspices that does not fall into simple summaries and descriptions. The Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0, which originated from nine seminars co-taught by Jeffrey Schnapp and Todd Presner, and was released by the UCLA Mellon Seminar in Digital Humanities, reads in part: Digital Humanities is not a unified field but an array of convergent practices that explore a universe in which: (a) print is no longer the exclusive or the normative medium in which knowledge is produced and/or disseminated; instead, print finds itself absorbed into new, mul