Digital Humanities
How does digitization facilitate work with research objects in the humanities?
What are the possibilities and limitations of digital methods and techniques in the text- and image-oriented sciences?
Where and how can digitized material be researched, viewed and processed?
What tools, virtual research environments and solutions for research data management are available?
We offer basic advice on these questions, introductions for students and researchers, and can refer you to specialized experts, platforms and other services.
Motivation
- The digitization of print media and the massive increase in born-digital media make numerous texts and audiovisual materials electronically available and editable .
- With the help of computer-aided techniques and tools, they can be studied in new ways.
- Depending on the research question, thanks to machine support results can be achieved that would not be possible with "manual" work - or only with disproportionate effort - especially in the automatic examination of very large corpora (big data in the humanities).
- Moreover, this opens up completely new questions, working methods (e.g. collaborative annotation) and analysis methods - especially of a quantitative nature (e.g. text similarity methods such as stylometry, semantic analyses via topic modelling or visualizations of statistical evaluations).
- Nevertheless, the quality of the questions and results always depends on the researchers' creativity and critical use of IT tools.
Digitization and DH in Tübingen
- Digital Humanities Center
- Dr. Eberle Center for Digital Skills
- M.A. specialization Digital Humanities
- Some courses of further institutions at Tübingen University like ZDV and University Library (UB).
- Digitization Center of the UB
- Digital copies of UB holdings
- Image server of the UB
Links / external offers
- DHd, information portal of the association Digital Humanities in German-speaking countries
- CLARIAH-DE, digital research infrastructure for the humanities
- DHVLab, teaching and research infrastructure
- forText, study literature digitally - learning units
- Programming Historian, numerous tutorials
- CATS, lexical and semantic text similarity methods
- EXMARaLDA, Cinemetrics, VIAN, ImagePlot, Distant Viewing, for audiovisual data
- Gephi, for network analysis
- NLTK, spaCy, for natural language processing with Python
- QGis, Omeka/Neatline, WorldMap, ArcMap, MapWarper, for geoinformation / maps
- Replay-DH, research data management for text data
- Stylo R Package, common tool for stylometry
- TextGrid, virtual research environment, especially for digital editions
- TopicsExplorer und Mallet, for topic modelling
- TRACER, text reuse detection machine
- Voyant, free distant reading tool
- Weblicht, CATMA for creating annotated corpora
- Overviews for other tools: DARIAH, SSH, Tapor
- Europeana, digitized items of European memory institutions
- HTRC Analytics, tools for the texts of the Hathi Trust Digital Library
- Manuscript portal, successor to Manuscripta Mediaevalia
- DFG-Viewer , Mirador-Viewer for digital copies