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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

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