The Digital Humanities (DH) come to computing with a different set of needs, priorities, and perspectives than those addressed by Computing Science and its pedagogy. My research aims to figure out what it means to do computing ’humanistically’ and ...

Early in the field’s development, it was argued that to belong in the Digital Humanities (DH) one must know how to ‘build’—to code. Despite this stated focus, little work has addressed the specific computing needs of DH or the best approaches to teaching ...

This study presents an innovative approach to archival digitisation and narrative generation using OpenAI’s Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) models. It focuses on the photographic index card catalogue of the Documentation Library Davos, ...

HUMAN 2024 is the 7th workshop of a series for the ACM Hypertext conferences. The HUMAN workshop has a strong focus on the user and thus is complementary to the strong machine analytics research direction that could be experienced in previous ...

In 2021, the RISM Digital Center introduced RISM Online. This represented a shift in how we present the RISM data to a global audience, supporting new methods of digital research and keeping the RISM project central to modern music scholarship. RISM ...

This paper introduces a newly developed service called MINE. The service assists Digital Humanities scientists in solving two problems: data acquisition and text analysis on a large scale. MINE consists of two main components: a search engine and a ...

Textual knowledge extraction and visual analysis technology bring new technical methodology to traditional qualitative research in the historical domain. However, there is still some difficulty impeding the semantic understanding and presentation for ...

The Jiangnan region of China boasts a superior natural environment, and the combination of cities and mountains that form its historical landscape give it unique attributes. Local chronicles serve as an abundant source of information for visualizing this ...

Traditional Chinese painting (TCP) is an invaluable cultural heritage resource and a unique visual art style. In recent years, there has been a growing emphasis on the digitalization of TCP for cultural preservation and revitalization. The ...

Dunhuang is a unique art treasure and a world heritage site. In order to organise and manage Dunhuang cultural heritage resources, this article studies the classification of Dunhuang murals in different dynasties, and explores the topic distribution ...

On the Books: Jim Crow and Algorithms of Resistance is a collections as data and machine learning project from the University Libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This project has created a plain text corpus of North Carolina ...

Museums, heritage agencies and other institutions responsible for managing archaeological cultural heritage across Europe are engaged in developing digital platforms to better open their collections to the public as a common resource for the purposes of ...

Large general-purpose knowledge graphs (KGs) are a critical component for knowledge-driven applications. However, most KGs represent only a limited view of the entities and concepts they describe. The concept coffee can, for example, refer to the plant ...

Students from Digital humanities frequently face big challenges while they learn technically-based topics as text analysis due they never had practiced programming before. In this paper, we introduce an approach to facilitate teachers to teach ...

The sustainability of digital research outputs, particularly in the humanities where these frequently comprise archives of digital cultural heritage material, has always offered a challenge to the researchers and institutions who have responsibility for ...

Historical photos are valuable for their cultural and economic significance, but can be difficult to identify accurately due to various challenges such as low-quality images, lack of corroborating evidence, and limited research resources. Misidentified ...

Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (so-called GLAMs) as well as digital humanities researchers are more and more publishing and sharing digital data, information and knowledge online. This opens new opportunities for cross-institute, cross-...

Virtual reality (VR) can introduce new perspectives and methods to existing research fields, such as the humanities. We present a VR research tool for facilitating the study of so-called ‘Written Artefacts’ (WA). The tool was created as part of an ...

Just as other disciplines, the humanities explore how computational research approaches and tools can meaningfully contribute to scholarly knowledge production. Building on related work from the areas of CSCW and HCI, we approach the design of ...

Stories from the Empty School Desk is an educational project and experience based on the use of augmented reality and designed to raise the awareness of young generations about the dramatic events related to the persecution of Jews and the Italian ...