Presentation delivered at the Oxford Journal Days 2016 for OUP editors of humanities and non-humanities Journals.

1. Digital
Scholarship
in the
Humanities
Edward Vanhoutte
Editor-in-Chief
Digital Scholarship in the Humanities
dshjournal@edwardz.be
@dshjournal

2. Edward Vanhoutte – EIC DSH – 7 April 2016 – #ojday
Digital Humanities?
‘This, for the humanities, is a question not
to be answered but continually to be
explored and refined.’
[Willard McCarty, 2003]

3. Edward Vanhoutte – EIC DSH – 7 April 2016 – #ojday
Digital Humanities?
‘Digital Humanities tries to model the
world around us through success and
failure in order to arrive at a better
understanding of what we know and don’t
know about humankind, their activities,
artefacts, and record.’
[Edward Vanhoutte, 2013]

4. Edward Vanhoutte – EIC DSH – 7 April 2016 – #ojday
Digital Humanities?
• Machine Translation
• Electronic Text Analysis

5. Edward Vanhoutte – EIC DSH – 7 April 2016 – #ojday
Digital Humanities?
• Machine Translation
→ 1966: Computational Linguistics
• Electronic Text Analysis
→ Literary & Linguistic Computing
→ Humanities Computing

6. Edward Vanhoutte – EIC DSH – 7 April 2016 – #ojday
Digital Humanities?
• Machine Translation
→ 1966: Computational Linguistics
• Electronic Text Analysis
→ Literary & Linguistic Computing
→ Humanities Computing
→ 2004: Digital Humanities

7. Edward Vanhoutte – EIC DSH – 7 April 2016 – #ojday

8. Edward Vanhoutte – EIC DSH – 7 April 2016 – #ojday

9. Edward Vanhoutte – EIC DSH – 7 April 2016 – #ojday

10. Edward Vanhoutte – EIC DSH – 7 April 2016 – #ojday
Digital Humanities?
‘A tactical convenience’
[Matt Kirschenbaum, 2011]

11. Edward Vanhoutte – EIC DSH – 7 April 2016 – #ojday
Digital Humanities?
‘A tactical convenience’
[Matt Kirschenbaum, 2011]
‘A hipster qualification of the Humanities’
[Edward Vanhoutte, 2013]

12. Edward Vanhoutte – EIC DSH – 7 April 2016 – #ojday
Digital Humanities?
Humanities Computing
Computational Linguistics
Computer
Science
Multimedia/Game Studies

13. Edward Vanhoutte – EIC DSH – 7 April 2016 – #ojday
DH
HC
CLCSM/GS

14. Edward Vanhoutte – EIC DSH – 7 April 2016 – #ojday
HC
CLCSM/GS
DH

15. Edward Vanhoutte – EIC DSH – 7 April 2016 – #ojday
HC
CLCSM/GS
DH
Digital Scholarship
in the Humanities

16. Edward Vanhoutte – EIC DSH – 7 April 2016 – #ojday
Digital Scholarship
in the Humanities
1. Digital Technology
2. Methodology
3. Theory
4. Interdisciplinary
5. Experimentally
6. Community Building

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Digital Scholarship
in the Humanities
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AUTHORSHIP ATTRIBUTION / STYLOMETRICS
DATA & TEXT MINING
TEXTUAL CORPORA - TEXT ENCODING - METADATA
FILM STUDIES
DIGITAL HUMANITIES - METHODOLOGY
DIGITAL HUMANITIES - PEDAGOGY & CURRICULUM
TEXTUAL ANALYSIS
LINGUISTICS / MACHINE LEARNING
TRANSLATION STUDIES
NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
DIGITAL COLLECTIONS
TEXTUAL STUDIES - TEXTUAL EDITING - COLLATION
SOFTWARE & TOOL DEVELOPMENT
DIGITAL HUMANITIES - HISTORY
HISTORICAL STUDIES
MACHINE TRANSLATION
TEXTUAL THEORY
CORPUS LINGUISTICS
DIGITAL HUMANITIES - INSTITUTIONS
VISUALIZATION
3D MODELLING
DSH 2015

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STYLOMETRICS
DATA & TEXT MINING
TEXTUAL CORPORA - TEXT
ENCODING - METADATA
Top 3

19. Stylometrics /
Authorship Attribution
Application of the study of linguistic style
Authorship attribution
• Academic / Literary
• Forensic linguistics
Edward Vanhoutte – EIC DSH – 7 April 2016 – #ojday

20. Robert Galbraith
The Cuckoo’s Calling (2013)
= J.K. Rowling

21. Joseph Smith:
More than two-dozen ancient
individuals living from around
2200 BC to 421 AD authored the
Book of Mormon [1830]
Jockers et al.:
Five 19th century authors:
● Solomon Spalding
● Sidney Rigdon
● Oliver Cowdery

22. Stylometrics /
Authorship Attribution
• Forensic linguistics:
• Paedophile tracing
• Anonymous letters
• Immigration claims
• Divorce issues
• …
Edward Vanhoutte – EIC DSH – 7 April 2016 – #ojday

23. Text & Data Mining
Deriving high-quality information from text
By turning text into (network) data
• Parsing
• Machine translation
• Topic Categorization
• Machine Learning
Edward Vanhoutte – EIC DSH – 7 April 2016 – #ojday

24. Text & Data Mining
Edward Vanhoutte – EIC DSH – 7 April 2016 – #ojday
• National Security / Intelligence:
e.g. Media monitoring & Tracking/Monitoring terrorist
activities
• Scientific discovery: PubMed
• Publishing
e.g. indexing, search/information access & monetizing
content
• Marketing
e.g. automatic adds placement

25. Textual Corpora
Text encoding
Metadata
Edward Vanhoutte – EIC DSH – 7 April 2016 – #ojday
Textual modelling
Semantic modelling
• Textual analysis
• Publishing
• Vizualisation

26. So far
Edward Vanhoutte – EIC DSH – 7 April 2016 – #ojday
Digital engagement with the Humanities
But
Digital engagement with publishing?

27. Paradox of the Digital
Humanities
Edward Vanhoutte – EIC DSH – 7 April 2016 – #ojday
Importance of traditional publishing
• Journals
• Monographs
• Edited volumes
→ Institutions / tenure / funding

28. Open Access
Edward Vanhoutte – EIC DSH – 7 April 2016 – #ojday
• Open Access & Online Publishing
• Data sets
• Open Source Code

29. Open Access
Edward Vanhoutte – EIC DSH – 7 April 2016 – #ojday
• Open Access & Online Publishing
→ Digital Humanities Quarterly
• Data sets
→ Institutional repositories
• Open Source Code
→ Github

30. Digital engagement
With DSH?
Edward Vanhoutte – EIC DSH – 7 April 2016 – #ojday
• Journal archive as corpus
• Textual analysis
• Text & Data mining
• Stylometrics
• Visualization
• …

31. Digital
Scholarship
in the
Humanities
Edward Vanhoutte
Editor-in-Chief
Digital Scholarship in the Humanities
dshjournal@edwardz.be
@dshjournal