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08 July 2022, Volume 2 Issue 2

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On Digital Humanities: from a Philosophical -- Cultural Point of view

Cheng Chung - sing

2022, 2(2):  3-6. 

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To digitalize humanities (human sciences)       has profound philosophical and cultural significances. It is a matter of transforming our subjectivities and intrinsic values based on our best feelings and mental thinking on life and reality into manageable form of objectivity. The question is how to do it? I propose in this paper to consider identifying unit of linguistic meanings in our Classical Texts and use relevant words and sentences to organize different forms of discourses from various schools of philosophy and recognize the dominant and outstanding arguments and positions for explaining relevant historical events and trends as well      philosophical points. It serves the purpose of understanding history in a better way, and at the meantime constructing and I forecasting visions of human future under present and other presupposed conditions of human behavior. Digital humanities therefore can be used to promote Chinese humanities including Chinese philosophy and Chinese culture for a worthwhile world-vision of peace and prosperity of mankind.

Understanding Memories of the Holocaust——A New Approach to Neural Networks in the Digital Humanities

Tobias Blanke Michael Bryant Mark Hedges Trans. Zhang Sitong

2022, 2(2):  16-34. 

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This article addresses an important challenge in artificial intelligence research in the humanities,which has impeded progress with supervised methods. It introduces a novel method to creating test collections from smaller subsets. This method is based on what we will introduce as distant supervision' and will allow us to improve computational modelling in the digital humanities by including new methods of supervised learning. Using recurrent neural networks,we generated a training corpus and were able to train a highly accurate model that qualitatively and quantitatively improved a baseline model. To demonstrate our new approach experimentally, we employ a real-life research question based on existing humanities collections. We use neural network based sentiment analysis to decode Holocaust memories and present a methodology to combine supervised and unsupervised sentiment analysis to analyse the oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Finally, we employed three advanced methods of computational semantics. These helped us decipher the decisions by the neural network and understand, for instance, the complex sentiments around family memories in the testimonies.

Research on the Connotation of Plants in Chinese Literature Under the Perspective of Digital Humanities

Ma Kaiyan Xiao Yao Chen Qian Hao Mengyao Yang Guancan

2022, 2(2):  35-45. 

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Based on the fundamental goal of digging out the literary connotation of common plants,this research aims to visualize the connection between plants and literature. We construct a topic model to explore the affiliation and relevance of literarily images of plants and present the correspondence of term and theme with two network diagrams. This study uses the LDA topic model to process the distribution of 7 topics among 35 kinds of trees and analyzes the relationship between the topics and the related terms.The results obtained show an excellent classification effect,further revealing the close relationship between the cultural connotations of different plants and realizing the application of text mining to interpret plant-centered literary intentions.

The Logic and Approach of Digital Reconstruction of Ancient Books in the Data Intelligence 

LeiJueying, HouXilong, WangXiaoguang

2022, 2(2):  46-56. 

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With the continuous development of the ancient books protection plan and the digital publishing of the ancient books，China has accumulated a huge number of ancient books digital resources. Under the environment of data intelligence，how to apply new technologies and new ideas to realize the extraction，display，activation and utilization of excellent cultural genes contained in ancient books has gradually become the main goal and core task of ancient books digitalization in the new era. Based on the digitalization of ancient books，this paper puts forward the concept of"digital reconstruction of ancient books"，and analyzes the differences between the two concepts. Then it refines the theoretical basis of digital reconstruction of ancient books，and constructs a stack model from the carrier record layer，content organization layer and application layer.The paper also puts forward the realization approach of digital reconstruction of ancient books from the five dimensions of theory，technology，users，mechanism and mode，which provides a reference for the in-depth development and activation of ancient book resources. Digital reconstruction of ancient books is an important part of the activation of ancient books in the future，which can provide a new guiding concept for the work of ancient books in the new era.

Digital Humanities and the Emerging Framework for Digital Curation

Arjun Sabharwal, Trans.LongJiaqing

2022, 2(2):  57-69. 

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Digital humanities (DH) represents an emerging framework for digital curation. This study focuses on the evolving relationship of the DH (including history) to digital curation and archives and describes the models of collaboration in the digital environment. A conceptual framework is presented, followed by discussions of scarcity and abundance, archival frameworks, models of collaboration, and a review of selected DH projects.Despite the semantic dis- agreements over the term archives, researchers and curators should consider each other's perspectives for continued collaboration.




Conference Report: the 8th Annual Conference of the Association for Digital Humanities in the German-Speaking Regions

Duan Tinghui Du Keli

2022, 2(2):  70-84. 

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Traveling the Silk Road on a Virtual Globe: Pedagogy, Technology and Evaluation for Spatial History

Ruth Mostern Elana Gainor Trans. Tian Qing

2022, 2(2):  85-103. 

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Un-disappeared Geography:Context Perception,Geomedia and the Change of Man-land Relationship

Ga Zangcao

2022, 2(2):  104-112. 

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The combination of Geomedia and mobile network makes the long-lost " disappeared geography" the spotlight of the internet; physical geography, where location, place, spaces, objects, and people are connected, breaking through the single relationship between people and content in the traditional internet. Digital geography has transformed from the information level of the traditional Internet into an important factor for the interconnection of all things. Focuses on sensor technology, context technology realizes the integration of physical context, social context and application context through perception, dativization and integration of geographic information. It is the beginning of the era of context. Geomedia has increasingly penetrated andintegrated into the real and social contexts and formed various application contexts, which have become the competitiveresources of mobile network. Based on the comprehensive digitization of Man-land, the new Man-land relationshippresents the characteristics of comprehensive datalization of human and land, heterogeneous public space, cocoon effect of Man-land relationship and re-localization.