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Copyright of Comparative Literature / Primerjalna Književnost is the property of Slovenian Comparative Literature Association and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Menasseh ben-Israel petitioned to re-admit Jews to England in 1655. Historians have been aware that Menasseh utilized the ideas employed by Simone Luzzatto in Luzzatto’s efforts to avoid the expulsion of the Jews from Venice. Luzzatto employed the humanist language of reason of state, while Menasseh’s writings were all exegetical in nature prior to 1655. How did Menasseh, a messianist whose writings focused on explaining Jewish thought, who had shown no interest in humanist political discourse, come to employ the humanist ideas of reason of state popular in the mid-seventeenth century? Furthermore, Luzzatto’s petition is a meek request to allow Jews to continue to reside in the Venetian ghetto, while Menasseh addresses Cromwell as an ambassador of one nation to the leader of another boldly requesting to be admitted to England without disabilities. How can we explain this dramatic change in tone? This paper traces the links, as well as the crucial differences, between these two petitions by examining several other petitions on behalf of Atlantic Jewry as well as the international developments in the intervening period. This paper argues that these factors were critical in the development of Menasseh’s thought as well as his choice of language and tone. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article comprises a biography of George Freeman, an African boy ‘liberated’ from enslavement in West Africa and relocated to the countryside of Berkshire, UK. The article contributes to scholarship on the long-term presence and lived experiences of Black people in Britain, using digital humanities techniques and parochial records from the county of Berkshire to map the presence of Black people (and other minority ethnicities) in rural English counties. It also uses Freeman’s biography to engage in wider discussions concerning the precarious experiences of ‘Liberated Africans’. These two research areas are combined to construct Freeman’s biography as a global microhistory, adding to the growing scholarship that aims to overcome these areas of archival silence within histories of slavery and abolition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Document Layout Analysis, which is the task of identifying different semantic regions inside of a document page, is a subject of great interest for both computer scientists and humanities scholars as it represents a fundamental step towards further analysis tasks for the former and a powerful tool to improve and facilitate the study of the documents for the latter. However, many of the works currently present in the literature, especially when it comes to the available datasets, fail to meet the needs of both worlds and, in particular, tend to lean towards the needs and common practices of the computer science side, leading to resources that are not representative of the humanities real needs. For this reason, the present paper introduces U-DIADS-Bib, a novel, pixel-precise, non-overlapping and noiseless document layout analysis dataset developed in close collaboration between specialists in the fields of computer vision and humanities. Furthermore, we propose a novel, computer-aided, segmentation pipeline in order to alleviate the burden represented by the time-consuming process of manual annotation, necessary for the generation of the ground truth segmentation maps. Finally, we present a standardized few-shot version of the dataset (U-DIADS-BibFS), with the aim of encouraging the development of models and solutions able to address this task with as few samples as possible, which would allow for more effective use in a real-world scenario, where collecting a large number of segmentations is not always feasible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this paper, we geocode the residences of nineteenth-century Brompton residents to the level of the building in order to argue that literary sociability and propinquity – leading to face-to-face interaction with writers, editors, artists, actors, and publishers – may have played a more important role in the formation of women's literary careers than scholars have yet recognized. Taking the popular novelist and poet Dinah Craik as our case study, we argue that the walkability as well as the informal and inexpensive literary sociability of the area made Brompton a fertile ground for the early careers of nineteenth-century women writers. Following Alan Liu's work in Critical Infrastructure studies, we attempt through mapping to reanimate connections that have been lost to time, establishing the importance of Brompton as a literary, artistic, and intellectual neighbourhood in the nineteenth century, and of propinquity in supporting the careers of women writers. Expanding on Sarah Bilston's recent work on the suburbs as fertile grounds for the careers of Victorian women writers, we add a spatial dimension to Robert Darnton's well-known print network, placing the private home, a site of literary sociability, as a central node in public print networks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article "Textile Makerspace: Digital Humanities Meets Craft" explores the intersection of textile craft, storytelling, and data in a unique makerspace at Stanford University. The Textile Makerspace provides a space for various crafts like sewing, knitting, and embroidery, attracting students and staff. The author delves into using textile methods for data visualizations and storytelling, as well as merging weaving with legal advocacy in digital humanities. The article also discusses a petition by the Authors Alliance to expand an exemption for text and data mining, showcasing the potential of computational text analysis through craft-based visualizations. Lastly, a Data Visualization with Textiles course at Stanford encourages interdisciplinary collaboration and experimentation to break traditional modes of scholarship in the humanities. [Extracted from the article]

This paper explores the development of digital history initiatives in Central Asia, focusing on Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan. It examines the challenges, opportunities, and trends within digital humanities in the region, emphasizing the importance of incorporating postcolonial perspectives and practical digital methods for research and cultural heritage preservation. The study employs a mixed-methods approach, including literature reviews, interviews, surveys, site visits, and case studies to provide a comprehensive analysis of current digital history projects. Despite the growth of digital humanities in Central Asia, the paper identifies obstacles such as underrepresentation in international forums, limited research infrastructures, and the prevalence of Western or Russian viewpoints. Significant attention is paid to the development of the digital history community in Central Asia and the study of its needs. The article highlights the potential of digital humanities to decolonize historical narratives and enhance cultural heritage preservation through innovative means like 3D technologies. It concludes by emphasizing the importance of developing region-specific frameworks and fostering collaboration to advance digital history in Central Asia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Word Rain is a development of the classic word cloud. It addresses some of the limitations of word clouds, in particular the lack of a semantically motivated positioning of the words, and the use of font size as a sole indicator of word prominence. Word Rain uses the semantic information encoded in a distributional semantics-based language model – reduced into one dimension – to position the words along the x -axis. Thereby, the horizontal positioning of the words reflects semantic similarity. Font size is still used to signal word prominence, but this signal is supplemented with a bar chart, as well as with the position of the words on the y -axis. We exemplify the use of Word Rain by three concrete visualization tasks, applied on different real-world texts and document collections on climate change. In these case studies, word2vec models, reduced to one dimension with t -SNE, are used to encode semantic similarity, and TF-IDF is used for measuring word prominence. We evaluate the technique further by carrying out domain expert reviews. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Digital Humanities uses computational technologies and methods mainly to assist in humanities research. Digital Humanities projects often involve the use of archival collections, information/knowledge organisation and the utilisation of emerging technologies. Traditionally, libraries have played an essential role in teaching and learning, aiding students in information literacy and ensuring that faculty has full and easy access to materials. This paper proposes that the academic library must expand its reach in research, particularly regarding the Humanities. As libraries position themselves within an ever-changing paradigm, the questions emerge: How do they utilise the lessons and principles of Digital Humanities to augment, modify and enhance strategies and processes as they impact research within universities? What are the tools needed to implement Digital Humanities? What are the methods for implementation? What are the key benefits of Digital Humanities to the academic library? Additionally, this paper will explore how the academic library in the Caribbean can partner with faculty members in facilitating their research beyond locating needed resources and act as partners in the process. It will propose the creation of a Digital Humanities program outlining the steps involved, the benefits to be accrued from such a program, and the inevitable challenges involved and how best they can be overcome. Two things are evident and will be discussed at length, that the role of the academic library cannot remain static, and that Digital Humanities is one way to ensure that the necessary changes occur. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article presents a state-of-the-field assessment of the use of digital resources and tools in ancient Mediterranean studies teaching. 1 This includes a presentation of the results of a recent survey focusing on pedagogical practices and multimedia use among ancient Mediterranean studies professionals and an overview of the benefits and challenges of incorporating rich-format media and digital resources into learner-centered curricula. The article also provides a summary of methodological approaches that can enhance learning retention and promote authentic and deep learning, with the goal of empowering students to think critically about the ancient past and their modern world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper focuses on reinterpreting the Harriet Rosenstein archive, containing a vast amount of previously unavailable materials concerning Sylvia Plath, as a source of feminist literary recovery. It also investigates the digitization of this archive in the larger context of a digital turn in Plath studies, and a potential connection with feminist digital humanities. The archive contains a vast number of Sylvia Plath-related documents that have been recently opened to the public at Emory University after almost five decades. Rosenstein was a young researcher with feminist critical interests at the time she documented a projected Plath biography, and her work bears the mark of her ideological options and of a distinct intention to reshape the cultural discourse around Plath's status as a feminist icon. My aim is to investigate the feminist itinerary Rosenstein created in her archive in order to reveal Plath's essential role as a female writer articulating innovative perspectives on women's issues, mythologies and fundamental themes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Copyright of Pasos: Revista de Turismo y Patrimonio Cultural is the property of Universidad de La Laguna, Instituto Universitario de Ciencias Politicas y Sociales and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Recently, scholars have begun to use network analysis to explore women's participation in correspondence networks. One such correspondence with a distinct presence of women letter-writers is that of the philosopher John Locke (1632–1704), who corresponded with thirty-five different women, including the philosopher Damaris Masham (1659–1708), and his cousin Mary Clarke (c. 1656–c. 1705). Through the lens of citation and co-citation analysis, this essay explores the reception of the women letter-writers in Locke's correspondence, arguing that shifting focus onto the reception of women facilitates a re-centering of these women's activities even at moments that their own letters are no longer extant, examining the connections between how women letter-writers represent themselves and how they are represented by the wider network. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focusing on an epistolary network at the Tudor court from January to July 1540, this essay uses theories of brokerage transactions and triadic management to explore Thomas Cromwell's role as Henry VIII's "gatekeeper" and his use of correspondence to manage access to and the information flow surrounding the king. By focusing on key social network theories by Mark Granovetter, Ronald Burt, and Roberto M. Fernandez and Roger Gould, this essay outlines the importance of an individual's structural position in a network, and the power it commands, identifying triadic relationships involving Henry and Cromwell, and evaluating the different structures of these interactions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Combining traditional and digital methods, this essay models a new toolbox for analyzing the knotty problem of how many letters in the State Papers were introduced to the archive through interception. Estimates by scholars vary widely. Using the State Papers Foreign metadata for the reign of Elizabeth I, we employ a method of "layered searching" to find letters involving a third party. By structuring the communications as a network, we weight edges between correspondents and the Tudor State to distinguish acts of interception from forwarded letters or spy reports. These methods suggest likely candidates for interception with a sliding scale of confidence, helping to identify two broad models of letter interception outside England, which we dub "military-diplomatic" and "catch-and-release." Overall, we estimate more than 5 percent of the collection to have been intercepted, highlighting a continuous network of intercepting officials from the Dutch Revolt to the imprisonment of Mary Stuart. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Confronted with evidence that the Republic of Letters was densely interconnected, scholars note that it was a small world in which everyone knew everyone. Confronted with the opposite evidence, they retreat to the opposite truism: that it was riven by factions. This case study develops and tests a tool designed to adjudicate between such competing truisms by identifying and quantifying second-degree connections. First, the tool identifies Gerardus Joannes Vossius as the person on Early Modern Letters Online (EMLO) with whom Samuel Hartlib shared the most correspondents without the two men ever exchanging letters directly, and vice versa. Second, it analyses the pattern of exchange with those shared correspondents. Do these indirect links compensate for the lack of direct connections, or confirm that the circles of Hartlib and Vossius were tangential and scarcely intersected? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay outlines methodologies for identifying and understanding discourse within and across historical communities. It uses social network analysis and quantitative text analysis to demonstrate, first, how communities of actors with a shared context can be extracted from social networks, and second, that the written works tied to those communities hold distinct linguistic features. To do this, it develops a case study around early modern Quakers within the London book trade. The aim is to use existing historical knowledge and expertise to both validate the methods and offer insights into their future uses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although historical network research has been part of historical research for decades, the rise of the internet has raised awareness of the digital and quantitative possibilities of network analysis. The data and methods supplied and applied in the essays collected in this special issue show that these promises are now starting to be fulfilled. However, current research still struggles to move beyond case studies into large-scale assessments. Burdensome datafication will allow us to link data and critically assess our archives in descriptive modes, but is also a condition for the application of more analytical tools and artificial intelligence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The essay investigates the work of the Welsh natural historian Thomas Pennant from 1752 up to his 1765 tour of Continental Europe and the completed publication of his first major scientific work, British Zoology , a year later. It focuses thereby on a time when Pennant actively sought correspondences with naturalists within Britain and abroad and created an extensive network that included figures such as Benjamin Stillingfleet, Emanuel Mendes da Costa, and Carl Linnaeus. Working with rich metadata drawn from Pennant's correspondence, the essay seeks to gain a deeper understanding of how the epistolary medium fed into his scientific oeuvre and contributed to establishing his name on the Continent as a British virtuoso of the highest rank. Light is thrown on the etiquette and practicalities of specimen exchange against the backdrop of European wars, the roles played by British and European learned societies, and the importance of book exchange, including the effort to expand the boundaries of knowledge through the acquisition of new publications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores the relations among space, caste and gender in Dalit massacres by locating the female survivors of the Kilvenmani massacre (1968) using feminist geocriticism and digital cartography. The introduction explores feminist scholarship in the field of GIS in order to situate the present study within the broader scholarship. This is followed by a section on the background and existing research on the Kilvenmani massacre. The next section summarizes the hybrid/mixed methodology which is a combination of feminist geocriticism (locating the female survivors in the place of violence) and digital cartography (physically locating the survivors in geographical maps and analyzing the relations). The section also details the materials that are considered in this article to identify the female survivors. The materials consist of both fictional (novels, films) and non-fictional (documentary, newspaper reports) texts that are closely read to understand the Dalit female experiences of the massacre. The next section gives the mapping of the female survivors using QGIS software along with the analysis of the data and the results to foreground the relation among caste, space, and gender in Dalit massacres. Both case studies, I (on the Marichjhapi massacre) and II (on the Kilvenmani massacre), are part of a larger study that aims to create a comprehensive spatial archive on the female survivors of selected Dalit massacres in independent India. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Persian poetry has profoundly affected all periods of Persian literature and the literature of other countries as well. It is a fundamental vehicle for expressing Persian culture and political opinion. This paper presents a corpus of Persian literary text mainly focusing on poetry, covering the ninth to twenty-first century annotated for century and style, with additional partial annotation of rhetorical figures. Our resource is the largest and the most diverse corpus available in Persian literary text, with a particularly broad temporal scope. This allows us to conduct several computational experiments to analyze poetic styles, authors and time periods, as well as context shifts over time, for which we rely both on supervised models and on Persian poetry-specific heuristics. The corpus, the tools, and experiments described in this paper can be used not only for digital humanities studies of Persian literature but also for processing Persian texts in general, as well as in other broader cross-linguistic applications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the past two decades, digital libraries (DL) have increasingly supported computational studies of digitized books (Jett et al. The hathitrust research center extracted features dataset (2.0), 2020; Underwood, Distant horizons: digital evidence and literary change, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2019; Organisciak et al. J Assoc Inf Sci Technol 73:317–332, 2022; Michel et al. Science 331:176–182, 2011). Nonetheless, there remains a dearth of DL data provisions or infrastructures for research on book reception, and user-generated book reviews have opened up unprecedented research opportunities in this area. However, insufficient attention has been paid to real-world complexities and limitations of using these datasets in scholarly research, which may cause analytical oversights (Crawford and Finn, Geo J 80:491–502, 2015), methodological pitfalls (Olteanu et al. Front Big Data 2:13, 2019), and ethical concerns (Hu et al. Research with user-generated book review data: legal and ethical pitfalls and contextualized mitigations, Springer, Berlin, 2023; Diesner and Chin, Gratis, libre, or something else? regulations and misassumptions related to working with publicly available text data, 2016). In this paper, we present three case studies that contextually and empirically investigate book reviews for their temporal, cultural, and socio-participatory complexities: (1) a longitudinal analysis of a ranked book list across ten years and over one month; (2) a text classification of 20,000 sponsored and 20,000 non-sponsored books reviews; and (3) a comparative analysis of 537 book ratings from Anglophone and non-Anglophone readerships. Our work reflects on both (1) data curation challenges that researchers may encounter (e.g., platform providers' lack of bibliographic control) when studying book reviews and (2) mitigations that researchers might adopt to address these challenges (e.g., how to align data from various platforms). Taken together, our findings illustrate some of the sociotechnical complexities of working with user-generated book reviews by revealing the transiency, power dynamics, and cultural dependency in these datasets. This paper explores some of the limitations and challenges of using user-generated book reviews for scholarship and calls for critical and contextualized usage of user-generated book reviews in future scholarly research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Built heritage has been both subject and product of a gaze that has been sustained through moments of colonial fixation on ruins and monuments, technocratic examination and representation, and fetishisation by a global tourist industry. We argue that the recent proliferation of machine learning and vision technologies create new scopic regimes for heritage: storing and retrieving existing images from vast digital archives, and further imparting their own distortions upon this gaze. We introduce the term ' machinic gaze ' to conceptualise the reconfiguration of heritage representation via artificial intelligence (AI) models. To explore how this gaze reframes heritage, we deploy an image-text-image pipeline that reads, interprets, and resynthesizes images of several UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Employing two concepts from media studies— heteroscopia and anamorphosis —we describe the reoriented perspective that machine vision systems introduce. We propose that the machinic gaze highlights the artifice of the human gaze and its underlying assumptions and practices that combine to form established notions of heritage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article provides a list of recently published books in the field of digital libraries. The books cover a range of topics including information risk management, paradata and its implications for research and practice, big data analytics for healthcare service delivery, accounting information systems, innovative approaches for outreach and instruction in digital libraries, and the role of literary archives in preserving cultural heritage. Each book offers unique insights and perspectives on its respective topic, making them valuable resources for researchers and practitioners in the field. [Extracted from the article]

The automatic assignment of a text to one or more predefined categories presents multiple applications. In this context, the current study focuses on author attribution in which the true author of a doubtful text must be identified. This analysis focuses on the style of sixty-six French comedies in verse written by seventeen supposed authors during the 17th century. The hypothesis we want to verify assumes that the real author is the name appearing on the cover (called the signature hypothesis). In order to validate the reliability of two attribution procedures, we used two additional corpora based on 200 extracts of novels written in French, with thirty authors and 140 Italian novels authored by forty persons. After this verification, we propose an improvement of the Delta method as well as a new analysis grid for this model. Finally, we applied these approaches to our French comedy corpus. The results demonstrate that the signature hypothesis must be discarded. Moreover, these works present similar styles, making any attribution difficult to support with a high degree of certainty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyses how digital humanities scholarship can make use of recent advances in deep learning to analyse the temporal relations in an online textual archive. We use transfer learning as well as data augmentation techniques to investigate changes in United Nations Security Council resolutions. Instead of pre-defined periods, as it is common, we target the years directly. Such a text regression task is novel in the digital humanities as far as we can see and has the advantage of speaking directly to historical relations. We present not only very good experimental results but also demonstrate how such text regressions can be interpreted directly and with surrogate topic models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Traditional martial arts are treasures of humanity's knowledge and critical carriers of sociocultural memories throughout history. However, such treasured practices have encountered various challenges in knowledge transmission and now feature many entries on the UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage. In tackling the urgency of knowledge preservation through digital means, this project employs an ontology-based approach to model the conceptual realm of traditional martial arts. Accordingly, it creates the Martial Art Ontology (MAon) , a comprehensive domain ontology with an annotated data resource incorporating entities and relations from embodied, epistemic, and sociocultural facets. MAon underlines the significance of embodied qualities and addresses relevant dimensions, such as kinesthetics, techniques, mnemonics, and tactics, along with stylistic, interpretative, and ideological components. It features scholarly terminology developed through literature analysis, interviews with masters, and expert validations. The instantiation of MAon is realized through annotating three archetypal Southern Chinese styles, offering exhaustive descriptions concerning techniques, forms, principles, and form sets, amongst others. In summary, the reported approach encodes the manifold of martial arts into a structured vocabulary and an interlinked data resource, accessible to both human-reading and machine-operating applications. By applying it to manifest a range of knowledge concepts, we demonstrate the potential of ontology-based datafication to create coherent representations for intangible cultural entities and to enable an interoperable data infrastructure across multimodal cultural archives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The rapid advancements in intelligent knowledge management technologies, exemplified by generative large language models, have yet to be fully explored and applied in the field of collation of ancient Chinese poetry. This study investigates the application of BERT-based pre-trained models, namely bert-base-chinese and SikuBERT, in the specialized task of ancient Chinese poetry collation. Focusing on the poetry of Li Bai, we employed a meticulously curated dataset to fine-tune these models, with the objective of enhancing their ability to identify and rectify errors in classical verse. Through a systematic approach to model adaptation, our research aimed to bridge the gap between generic language understanding and the nuanced complexities of ancient poetry.Results indicate that both models, after fine-tuning, exhibit substantial improvement in accurately addressing textual issues in the poetry. Specifically, SikuBERT, with its background in classical Chinese literature, achieved an impressive accuracy rate exceeding 40% post-fine-tuning, reflecting a marked increase from its base performance, thereby validating the significance of domain-specific training data. Meanwhile, bert-base-chinese also displayed notable enhancements, underscoring the models' adaptability to specialized tasks. The investigation further emphasizes the potential for artificial intelligence to contribute to the precision and efficiency of ancient literature studies. We highlight future directions including refining fine-tuning methodologies, expanding the models' capability to generalize across diverse poetic styles and periods, and integrating multi-modal data to deepen the understanding of historical context and authorial intent. This work underscores the transformative role of AI in the digital preservation and scholarly analysis of ancient poetry, paving the way for innovative approaches in the field of classical literature collation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Throughout history, various alternative approaches have been considered that conceptualize the dialogue between architectural objects and their sites. This study explores whether this conceptual richness is reflected in Turkey’s contemporary architectural agenda by focusing mainly on the period from 1990 to the present. The Mimarlık Journal, one of Turkey’s leading architectural journals, was chosen as the object of investigation, presenting the contemporary written language of academics and professionals. In this research, relevant and current literature was first reviewed to identify site-related terms (place, settlement, local, topography, context, environment, nature, history, social, culture and identity) as a toolkit for analyzing the Mimarlık Journal. The analysis of the toolkit has led to the creation of a digital database via the application of digital humanities methods of manual text mining and critical reading to highlight the diversity and richness of sites’ language(s). The result is the mapping of the terms used in context to understand the diversity, actors, and systems of thought in site narrative. The results show that the discussions in the journal mainly focus on the critique of contemporary architectural practices, rather than theoretically expanding the topic and drawing on production in fields such as art, philosophy, and anthropology. The discussions in the journal refer to the canonical texts of international literature in the field of architectural theory and urbanism between the 1960s and the 1990s. However, there is an evident lack of current sources in the bibliographies, which shows that systems and patterns of thought do not change simultaneously. This study shows that the mapping and deep reading of journal articles represent a very effective research method in the field of architecture by contributing to the site narrative while making apparent the diversity and richness of its language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Contemporary experiments in Digital Humanities and distant reading tend to propose an empirical approach to literary facts. This development leads us to reflect on the place of quantitative analysis in literary theory, by asking whether data can replace literary theory in the age of Artificial Intelligence (AI)? By shifting from the status of emblematic fact to that of mere "noise" or statistical randomness in data, it is the entire theoretical conception of the literary work, supposedly individual and particular, that is called into question. This article attempts to reflect on these epistemological evolutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a brief history of the Aristotelistes - The Cooperative Corpus+ of Aristotle project along with the specialized research needs that the produced platform intends to cover. The need for a complete series of new translations in Modern Greek of Aristotle's corpus formed a work-group of all the leading experts in Greece that have extensively, and mainly, collectively worked on the new translations. The complexity of this endeavor, along with the inability of the traditional means (printed book) to properly document the new knowledge produced by the collective procedure, gave birth to the idea of a digital platform that not only will present the new translation to the general public but will also become a forceful tool for the community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Knowledge communication in cultural heritage and digital humanities currently faces two challenges, which this paper addresses: On the one hand, data-driven storytelling in these fields has mainly focused on human protagonists, while other essential entities (such as artworks and artifacts, institutions, or places) have been neglected. On the other hand, storytelling tools rarely support the larger chains of data practices, which are required to generate and shape the data and visualizations needed for such stories. This paper introduces the InTaVia platform, which has been developed to bridge these gaps. It supports the practices of data retrieval, creation, curation, analysis, and communication with coherent visualization support for multiple types of entities. We illustrate the added value of this open platform for storytelling with four case studies, focusing on (a) the life of Albrecht Dürer (person biography), (b) the Saliera salt cellar by Benvenuto Cellini (object biography), (c) the artist community of Lake Tuusula (group biography), and (d) the history of the Hofburg building complex in Vienna (place biography). Numerous suggestions for future research arise from this undertaking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Lady’s Museum (1760–61) was among the most important early periodicals largely written by one of the most important eighteenth-century authors, Charlotte Lennox, whose multigenre, proto-feminist writing is beginning to receive the critical and pedagogical attention it deserves. Yet no modern edition of the text has existed—until now. Launched in 2021, the Lady’s Museum Project is presenting the first critical edition of—and learning community around—Lennox’s Museum in three open-access formats to encourage the widest possible readership: a non-specialist digital, interactive edition of the text and LibriVox audiobook intended for public and undergraduate-student audiences, and a specialist digital edition intended for scholars’ use—and participation (forthcoming). 2023 brought the completion of the teaching edition, which has been used in a variety of institutions across the U.S. and Canada, from 1000-level undergraduate to 5000-level graduate courses, and in undergraduate- and graduate-level internships designed to prepare interns for careers in editing and publishing, with a focus on transcending traditional teaching, editing, publishing, and disciplinary hierarchies and conventions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This interview covers extensive topics about poetry and poetics, ranging from the language of poetry to the principles of formalism, from performance poetry to visual poetry, from digital humanities to cognitive poetics in the age of data, from the problems of "theory" to the conditions of humanities in American universities, and above all from Marjorie Perloff's own insightful understanding of the essence of poetry to her endorsement of the ethical literary criticism initiated by Nie Zhenzao. According to Marjorie Perloff, poetry is "the art of relationship" as well as "the discourse that could only be Re-read, because you notice other things when you read it again." In this interview, Marjorie Perloff cited modern and contemporary poets like Ezra Pound, Alan Ginsburg, Charles Bernstein, and the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein to demonstrate her opinions on poetry and poetics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Polish-language resources of digital humanities have been growing and developing very rapidly over the last several years. On the one hand, such a large and constantly growing number of various electronic language resources has a significant impact on the development of scientific research and didactic methods. On the other hand, this situation makes it difficult for researchers to be up-to-date on news and changes that are taking place in already existing digital tools, dictionaries, corpora, libraries or compendia. Therefore, it is necessary to update the studies on a regular basis in which various electronic language resources are discussed in detail. One of the studies that needs to be supplemented and corrected is Przewodnik po elektronicznych zasobach językowych dla polonistów (Guide to electronic language resources for polonists (dictionaries, card catalogs, corpora, compendia) by P. Pałka and A. Kwaśnicka-Janowicz (2017). For that reason, in this paper we will focus on selected electronic language resources that have not been included in the mentioned book and which refer to linguistic data dating from 1945 to the present or covering the entire 20th century. In the summary, we will discuss possible ways of using electronic language resources (selected for the paper) in research and teaching. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article navigates through the challenge of preserving and presenting uncertainties in digital maps, which are used to reconstruct practical knowledge in early modern artists’ businesses. It introduces a novel methodology—deep mapping—as a multi-layered spatial visualization within the Geographical Information Systems (GIS). This method adeptly facilitates the processing and visualization of complex art historical data, offering a nuanced approach that addresses the dual need of managing large-scale spatial analysis and maintaining the precision requisite in scholarly work. To operationalize the concept of deep mapping in knowledge production, this research has collected and integrated location-related descriptions of early modern addresses from various sources, translating them into geo-referenced areas and visualizing them on historical maps with varying levels of uncertainties. Applying deep mapping to visualize painters’ distribution patterns in seventeenth-century Amsterdam as an example, this article discusses two ways of presenting uncertainties in digital maps to facilitate historical observation. It shows that uncertainty is most effectively presented as fuzzy heat maps in the background to accentuate painters’ choices of locations for their painting businesses. The deep maps demonstrate that painters in early seventeenth-century Amsterdam pragmatically practiced their business knowledge by making clustering decisions following market conditions.