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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.

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.

Information Professionals Going Beyond the Needful User in Digital Humanities Project Collaboration

  • Engerer, Volkmar P.
    • Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.6-19
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    • 2020
  • When information professionals deal with other disciplines in the course of digital humanities projects, they often assume that they are dealing with 'needful users' who have an 'information gap' to fill. This paper argues that the traditional view that information/knowledge is transferred from an information specialist donor to a domain specialist receiver is no longer appropriate in the digital humanities context, where the gap-and-search (or gap-and-filler) approach to information has given way to more direct, explorative engagement with information. The paper asks whether information science and the practising profession are ready for this paradigm shift and examines information science conservatism in two common collaboration scenarios, library support and digital development. It is shown that information science theory still assumes a traditional donor role in both scenarios. How information scientists deal with conservatism in practice is discussed in the example of the Prior project, in which the information science team exerted an ambiguous, hybrid approach with both conservative and non-conservative elements. Finally, two rather hypothetical answers are offered to the question of how information professionals should approach scholarly collaboration in the digital humanities context, where users have ceased to be supplicants. From a purely pragmatic perspective, information scientists need to shift their focus from information needs to research practices and the implications of these practices for digital information systems. More fundamentally, the emergence of digital humanities challenges information professionals to transform information systems designed for searching into digital objects that can be explored more freely by the digital humanities community.

A Study on Digital Humanities Education Programs at American Universities (미국 대학의 디지털 인문학 교육 프로그램 연구)

  • Lee, Jisu;Lee, Hye-Eun
    • Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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    • v.36 no.4
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    • pp.107-128
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    • 2019
  • This study examines cases of digital humanities education programs at universities, university libraries and digital humanities centers in the United States. As a result of the research, it was analyzed that the university-centered education program operates in conjunction with other departments to take courses related to humanities and digital technology in general. The digital humanities education program is not operated as a full degree program, but most programs are operated as graduate certificate programs, and it is required to require a graduate degree in library and information science and humanities in advance. Most of the digital humanities centers run educational programs centered on faculty and postdoctoral researchers in universities in connection with universities and university libraries to support the humanities scholars. Lastly, the university's digital humanities education program is operated in the form of research support for students and researchers of all majors. In addition, the content of the educational program focused on the practice for digital projects rather than theory. Empowering digital literacy and supporting digital technology-based research has become a new role for university libraries, which requires libraries to play a central role in digital humanities education.

An Investigation on Digital Humanities Research Trend by Analyzing the Papers of Digital Humanities Conferences (디지털 인문학 연구 동향 분석 - Digital Humanities 학술대회 논문을 중심으로 -)

  • Chung, EunKyung
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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    • v.55 no.1
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    • pp.393-413
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    • 2021
  • Digital humanities, which creates new and innovative knowledge through the combination of digital information technology and humanities research problems, can be seen as a representative multidisciplinary field of study. To investigate the intellectual structure of the digital humanities field, a network analysis of authors and keywords co-word was performed on a total of 441 papers in the last two years (2019, 2020) at the Digital Humanities Conference. As the results of the author and keyword analysis show, we can find out the active activities of Europe, North America, and Japanese and Chinese authors in East Asia. Through the co-author network, 11 dis-connected sub-networks are identified, which can be seen as a result of closed co-authoring activities. Through keyword analysis, 16 sub-subject areas are identified, which are machine learning, pedagogy, metadata, topic modeling, stylometry, cultural heritage, network, digital archive, natural language processing, digital library, twitter, drama, big data, neural network, virtual reality, and ethics. This results imply that a diver variety of digital information technologies are playing a major role in the digital humanities. In addition, keywords with high frequency can be classified into humanities-based keywords, digital information technology-based keywords, and convergence keywords. The dynamics of the growth and development of digital humanities can represented in these combinations of keywords.

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 Digital Broadcast Application for Smart Education, -Focused on Liberal Arts of Humanities (스마트 교육을 위한 디지털 방송 적용에 관한 연구 - 인문교양 중심으로)

  • Ko, In-Hwan;Hong, Bong-Hwa
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.161-166
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    • 2014
  • Using and increasing the smart devices got many changes for social environment. Especially, many researchers have studied application using smart devices for improving the learning performance in education. However, Liberal Arts of Humanities has very difficult to apply to information and communication technology cause of traditional study pattern and unit characteristic. In this paper, we suggest a method to apply the Liberal Arts of Humanities to digital broadcasting and to improve learning performance. For this study, we propose a method to making smart contents and connecting them for Liberal Arts of Humanities. And also, we propose a method for applying them to digital broadcasting in order to proof the learning performance increasing by questionary, and shows the application possibility.

A Path Analysis of Digital Storytelling using Petri-Net Applied Humanities (인문학에 적용된 패트리넷을 이용한 디지털 스토리텔링 경로 분석)

  • Kim, Jin-Hae;Jeong, Hwa-Young
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.109-115
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    • 2012
  • Humanities is very difficult area to use the computer. However, recently, convergence trend has increase widely at all of the academic area. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a technical method to use an IT for the popularity of humanities. For this purpose, we implement a path process that use Petri-net to apply digital storytelling to humanities. We also make a structure to connect an examples and questions from sentences or articles as digital storytelling. The digital storytelling consists of six factors; author, synopsis, background, construction, view point, and user's or reader's review. Proposed method provides a process to analyze the data path of a literary work using Petri-net.

A Study about the Concept of Data Literacy based on Digital Humanities (인문학 기반 데이터 리터러시 개념에 대한 연구)

  • Han, Sang Woo
    • Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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    • v.35 no.4
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    • pp.223-236
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    • 2018
  • The purpose of this study is to suggest the concept of data literacy and its detailed competencies based on humanities focused on LIS. To do this, we define the concept of data literacy by comparing and analyzing researches related data literacy, data information literacy, and digital literacy in domestic and foreign. And we design the basic 11 elements of data literacy based on digital humanities concepts. The result of this study is expected to be used as a basic data when design henceforward data literacy framework.