Introduction to Digital Humanities: Current Approaches and Methods (LV / Seminar)

El-Hajj, Hassan

• Mo. 14-16 Uhr
• Raum: H 2051
• Beginn: 17.10.2022 (1. Termin online)

The constant efforts to digitalize our past, whether it be ancient texts or artifacts, ensures that the modern humanist is increasingly facing the prospect of studying digital representations of their subjects. This course aims to introduce students to current methods and approaches dedicated to the study of these digital sources, as well as to investigate what new questions can be answered by studying the digital material through state-of-the-art case studies. Throughout this process, students will learn to use some of the common tools in digital scholarship, starting from bibliographic management tools such as Zotero, to more complex computational tools such as those for Optical Character Recognition (OCR), as well as a gentle introduction to the use of Machine Learning in the humanities.

Literatur:

• Drucker, J. (2021). The digital humanities coursebook: An introduction to digital methods for research and scholarship. London and New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
• Flanders, J., & Jannidis, F. (2020). The shape of data in the digital humanities: Modeling texts and text-based resources. London and New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.

Modulzuordnungen:

• BA-KulT WTG 2, 4;
• MA-GKWT 2, 5/1,7/1
• MA TGWT WTG 4
• MA FW 7, 8, 9, 10