Distinguished Lectures in Digital Humanities: Early Modern Information Overload: Making Sense of Big Data in the Humanities
Event details
| Date | 13.01.2016 |
| Hour | 09:00 › 11:00 |
| Speaker | Dr Glenn H. Roe, Lecturer in Digital Humanities, Centre of Digital Humanities Research, Australian National University |
| Location | |
| Category | Miscellaneous |
One of the main challenges for the digital humanities is to develop scalable reading approaches—both distant and close—implying a new hermeneutic circle that allows scholars to move from macro- to micro-analyses and back. This talk will outline some previous attempts at addressing this challenge, using data mining and machine learning techniques to explore large-scale datasets drawn primarily from the French Enlightenment period. It will then present several projects that use sequence alignment algorithms to identify intertextual relationships over large heterogeneous corpora.
These techniques allow us to trace the spread of cultural information, and in particular, various instances of text re-use—citations, commonplaces, borrowings, and the like—across a number of significant collections, including the more than 200,000 works found in the ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online) database.
These techniques allow us to trace the spread of cultural information, and in particular, various instances of text re-use—citations, commonplaces, borrowings, and the like—across a number of significant collections, including the more than 200,000 works found in the ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online) database.
Practical information
- Informed public
- Free
- This event is internal
Organizer
- Institute of Digital Humanities
Contact
- Sabine Süsstrunk