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Class 8 Notes

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Preliminary Class Business

 

  • No class next Tuesday
  • Transcriptions Research Slam, "SynchDH" (May 8th)

 


1. Thinking Ahead to the Class Project

 

  • Unless we come to a decision today about a corpus, for the next class each student (or pairs or groups of students working in collaboration) should come up with an idea for a corpus of works we can study.  The criteria for a good corpus include some combination of the following features:
    • The corpus should have scale.  (The corpus doesn't have to be gigantic, but there should be enough works to make it sensible to use digital humanities methods to study them--say, at least 20 works at a minimum.)
    • The corpus should be accessible.
      • Ideally the works would be out of copyright or otherwise in the public domain.
      • Ideally, we can get digital versions of the works fairly easily, so we don't have to spend a lot of time on that.
    • The corpus should have some balance between consistency (e.g., a focus on works of a certain kind from a certain period) and differentiation. (E.g., the corpus could sub-types of works that can be compared, or it can be compared as a whole to another corpus of some sort.)
    • Hopefully, the corpus should include works or issues that interest you.

 

 

Flow chart of class project design

 

  • Continued class discussion of ideas about a corpus to study:
    • Ideas mentioned so far:
    • Corpus [TBD] -- topic model analysis and comparison
      • E.g., Study the 19th-century novels we have and compare novels by women, men, and anonymous.
      • E.g., Study a small set of modern "dystopian" novels if we can get them in digital form; then use text analysis and topic modeling methods to find the nearest matches in the 19th-century corpus of novels.
    • Corpus of translations --

 


2. Social Network Analysis

 

 

Readings for today

 

 


3. More on the Social Network Paradigm

 

 


4. Mapping in the Digital Humanities

 

 


 

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