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The Future Past of Humanities Research: Musing Methodology in the Digital Convergence Era

  • Kim, Jiyun
    • International journal of advanced smart convergence
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.161-168
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    • 2020
  • Over the last half-century, computer science has revolutionarily changed the landscape of humanities research. This digital shift in research methodology has reached from the brainstorming process to preserving, constructing, collecting, visualizing, and even analyzing materials. Such transformation has brought about the birth of the new field of study: Digital Humanities (DH). DH undeniably has saved much of the physical chores and provided a new angle to interpret the text, thereby making its meteoric rise as a promising future of the humanities. Based on such innovation, electronic circuitry can seem to replace the imagination that detects relationships and significances of research data with ever-improving interfaces. However, despite hitherto technological development, the thousands-year-old essence of traditional liberal arts-human creativity-remains the heart of humanities research and always will. This paper starts by proving this proposition in the way of comparing the old and new liberal arts research methods, focusing on literary studies. Meanwhile, it thoroughly investigates how digitalized bibliographies, search engines, databases, and digital projects provide the most useful data preservation and virtual experience of browsing in the library, along with their limitations due to the intrinsic quality of humanities research data. Also, it probes the differences between traditional and digital data analysis in current methods of literary studies, ultimately presenting the ideal direction for humanities development in the era of digital convergence.

A Study on the Support Plan for Revitalizing the Local Humanities Ecosystem (지역 인문학 생태계 활성화 지원방안에 관한 연구)

  • Noh, Younghee;Park, Jonghee
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.12 no.6
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    • pp.91-97
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    • 2021
  • This study investigated the local humanities ecosystem and the application of local humanities. A plan(measures) was suggested to vitalize the humanities ecosystem for local residents through this stduy. First, We looked at the support measures for local humanities. Second, we tried to find a measure to utilize research manpower for the development of local humanities. Third, We study ways to train researchers for the development of the local humanities ecosystem. Fourth, In this study, we analyzed the contents of the job creation plan for the development of local humanities.This analysis aims to establish a support plan for vitalizing research on the regional humanities ecosystem that reflects the local culture and regional specificity.

A Study on the Metadata based on the Semantic Structure of the Humanities Research Articles for Research Data (인문학 분야 연구데이터를 위한 연구논문의 의미구조 기반 메타데이터 연구)

  • An, Byoung-Goon;Ko, Young Man
    • Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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    • v.33 no.1
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    • pp.345-369
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    • 2022
  • The purpose of this study is to build a metadata set based on the semantic structure of the humanities field research articles for research data that can associate research data and research articles. To understand the interest of Humanities researchers, keywords of research articles were categorized. By proceeding the keywords classification and analyzing based on the semantic structure of general research papers, additional elements to be added were identified for reflecting the characteristics of the humanities field. Based on it, 17 metadata elements based on the semantic structure of research papers in the humanities field was determined. In order to evaluate whether the metadata is appropriate as a metadata for research data in the humanities field, a survey was conducted on researchers in the humanities field. As a result of the survey, 7 elements were judged to be suitable for use as metadata for research data in the field of humanities, and 10 other elements were identified as usable elements. Drawing on the survey results, the metadata based on the semantic structure of the humanities field research articles for research data was constructed.

Conceptualization of IT Humanities through Keyword Topic Modeling (주제어 토픽모델링을 통한 IT 인문학 개념의 정립)

  • Youngmi Choi;Namje Park
    • Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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    • v.26 no.5
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    • pp.467-480
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    • 2022
  • This paper aimed to explore research trends for the conceptualization of IT humanities. Reflecting domestic and international references which focused on the possibility of the integration of digital technology and humanities, the authors examined the beginning, background, and relevant concepts of IT humanities to figure out the meaning and the research trends. In addition, using the search word "IT humanities," the authors analyzed network topics of the keywords retrieved from 1,566 KCI and 64 SCI journal articles published since 2001. The concept of IT humanities in the previous studies has tended to associate with competencies that allow considering various fields of IT based on the lens of humanities perspectives. The result of the topic modeling revealed four groups as fields to be integrated with IT humanities, methods of implementation, connections of literature or culture, and creations of IT humanities. Instead of instrumentalization or merger by one stance of IT or humanities, it is imperative to collaboratively work for the generation of a new viewpoint through mutual respect of disciplines.

A Study on the Reliability Evaluation Index Development for the Information Resources Retained by Institutions: Focusing on Humanities Assets

  • Jeong, Dae-Keun;Noh, Younghee
    • International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.65-89
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    • 2019
  • This study has the aim of developing an evaluation index that can help evaluate the reliability of the information resources of institutions retaining humanities assets for the purposes of laying out the foundation for providing one-stop portal service for humanities assets. To this end, the evaluation index was derived through the analysis of previous research, case studies, and interviews with experts, the derived evaluation index was then applied to the humanities assets retaining institutions to verify the utility. The institutional information resources' reliability evaluation index consisted of the two dimensions of the institutions' own reliability evaluation index. The institution provided a service and system evaluation index. The institutions' own reliability evaluation index consisted of 25 points for institutional authority, 25 points for data collection and construction, 30 points for data provision, and 20 points for appropriateness of data, for a total of 100 points, respectively. The institution provided service and system evaluation indexes consisting of 25 points for information quality, 15 points for appropriateness (decency), 15 points for accessibility, 20 points for tangibility, 15 points for form, and 10 points for cooperation, for the total of 100 points, respectively. The derived evaluation index was used to evaluate the utility of 6 institutions representing humanities assets through application. Consequently, the reliability of the information resources retained by the Research Information Service System (RISS) of the Korea Education & Research Information Service (KERIS) turned out to be the highest.

A Study on Utilization Method of Information Visualization in the Humanities and Area Studies (인문·지역연구에서의 정보시각화 활용 방안 연구)

  • Kang, Ji-Hoon;Lee, Dong-Yul;Moon, Sang-Ho
    • Asia-pacific Journal of Multimedia Services Convergent with Art, Humanities, and Sociology
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    • v.5 no.5
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    • pp.59-68
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    • 2015
  • Since interdisciplinary convergence could beyond the borders of each disciplines, it is able to create new and meaningful knowledge through collaborative research between different study areas. Especially, in recent years, the Digital Humanities has attracted the attention as the convergence form of the Humanities and ICT. From a research methodology perspective, the Digital Humanities is a tool that can be used as a convergence system for various information utilization such as storage, retrieve, share, and spread. In view of Information system, Digital Humanities has been constructed and used in a variety of systems. Among them, studies related to information visualization for the Digital Humanities have been actively conducted. To visualize data or information, various types such as images, multimedia, interface, and etc could be applied. In this paper, we analyze the cases of various information visualization in digital humanities systems, and propose a method to utilize them in the Humanities and Area Studies.

A Study on the Method for Efficient Development of Digital Humanities System (디지털 인문학 시스템의 효율적 개발을 위한 방법에 관한 연구)

  • Kang, Ji-Hoon;Lee, Dong-Yul;Moon, Sang-Ho
    • Asia-pacific Journal of Multimedia Services Convergent with Art, Humanities, and Sociology
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    • v.6 no.7
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    • pp.389-397
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    • 2016
  • Digital Humanities System is a method to effectively share and spread Humanities information and knowledge to users by using information technology. It Also comes into the spotlight as a new research methodology for researches of Humanities researchers. Digital Humanities System distinguishes itself from other existing information systems. Therefore, when the system is developed, it needs to supply with manpower related to development process which is specialized for Digital Humanities System, not for the several established construction methodology. Digital Humanities System studies recently is mostly constructed using the usual methodology of information system construction. Because of its falling efficiency and usability after constructing the system, however, examples of failure of operating system occur. In this paper, accordingly, effective and creative Digital Humanities System development methodology will be studied from the point of view of information technology through collaboration with various field of expertise. In detail, based on information system methodologies in software engineering perspective, we propose a methodology to build a specialized system in the digital humanities.

Development of a Medical Humanities Course Based on Design Thinking and Medical Students' Perceptions (디자인사고 기반 의료인문학 수업 개발과 의과대학생의 인식)

  • Jaehee Rho;Aehwa Lee
    • Korean Medical Education Review
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.55-69
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    • 2024
  • Amid the increasing interest in medical humanities education, this study developed a medical humanities course that utilized design thinking to foster creative thinking, problem-solving, and collaboration skills that pre-medical students should possess. The course's efficacy was assessed by evaluating improvements in core design thinking skills. The present study was conducted among 83 first-year medical students after planning and implementing a design thinking course. The reflection journals written by students along the course of the class were examined using the template analysis technique to evaluate the effectiveness of the class. The study's primary findings showed the successful development of step-by-step medical humanities education content utilizing design thinking and its practical implementation in a class. Moreover, the course improved students' core design thinking skills effectively, and in a balanced way. These results illustrate the effective application of design thinking in medical school through a medical humanities course. These findings indicate that a medical humanities course can help medical students showcase their abilities to collaborate and solve problems in the real world. This paper suggests the need for further research to develop a curriculum that integrates design thinking and investigate the relationship between medical students' core competencies and design thinking-based courses.

A Study on the Improvement Plans of the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Data Archives in Korea (국내 인문사회 연구데이터 아카이브의 개선방안에 관한 연구)

  • Shin, Young-Ran;Chung, Yeon-Kyoung
    • Journal of Korean Society of Archives and Records Management
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.93-115
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    • 2012
  • This study aims to propose improvement plans of the Humanities and Social Sciences research data archives in Korea. For this purpose, literature reviews were conducted to prove the importance of the Humanities and Social Sciences research data and establish a theoretical basis for the concept and requirements of data archives. In addition, analysis of the Korean Research Memory (KRM), case surveys for a total of 9 domestic and international archives, and in-depth interviews with a total of 10 researchers in the field of the Humanities and Social Sciences were conducted as well. As for the improvement of the Humanities and Social Sciences research data archives in Korea, establishing a cooperative system between the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) and the field of the Humanities and Social Sciences was proposed first for data archives of each project. Secondly, a conceptual model of research data archives was designed in such a way that the archives would perform according to a life cycle of research data in the cooperative system, all based on data curation.

An Analysis on Research Trends of Digital Humanities (디지털 인문학 분야의 국내외 연구 동향 분석)

  • Jeong, Yoo Kyung
    • Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.311-331
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    • 2020
  • The purpose of this study is investigate the research trend on digital humanities. Previous studies focused on analyzing representative cases and national policies, not overall research trends in the digital humanities field. To this problem, this study intends to identify the intellectual structure of the digital humanities by adopting bibliometric approach. In this study, 1,765 articles retrieved from Web of Science and 514 records from RISS were analyzed to investigate research trends. Structural topic models were applied to examine research topics and to grasp the time-series trend. The results show that humanities-based convergence studies and digitization were main research interests in both side. In Korea, research topics related to cultural contents and storytelling were prominent, while in terms of providing digitized data, library and information science field was one of the important research topic abroad.