https://openmethods.dariah.eu/2023/09/26/spanish-paleography-digital-teaching-and-learning-tool/ OpenMethods introduction to: Spanish Paleography Digital Teaching and Learning Tool 2023-09-26 06:53:20 The Spanish Paleography (http://spanishpaleographytool.org) tool helps to bridge this gap for those interested in learning paleography of the early modern Spanish period, covering the late 15th to the 18th centuries. The tool is intended to allow users to learn how to decipher and read handwriting from documents of this era. Full transcriptions of the documents can be viewed in a facing-page form ..read more

https://openmethods.dariah.eu/2023/09/26/mediate-a-collaborative-time-based-media-annotation-tool-for-the-web/ OpenMethods introduction to: Mediate: A Collaborative Time-Based Media Annotation Tool for the Web 2023-09-26 06:52:36 Mediate is a collaborative time-based media annotation tool for the web that can be used both individually and collaboratively for synchronous and asynchronous digital annotation. One of its highlighting features is accessibility and customization, i.e. the ability to customize the schema that forms the basis of the analysis or the purpose of the project. [Click ‘Read ..read more

https://openmethods.dariah.eu/2023/08/09/closing-the-gap-in-non-latin-script-data-a-tool-for-building-and-navigating-collections-of-dh-research-projects/ OpenMethods introduction to: Closing the Gap in Non-Latin-Script Data: A tool for building and navigating collections of DH research projects 2023-08-09 09:54:48 The Closing the Gap in non-Latin script data aims at mapping the field of digital humanities projects outside and beyond the anglosphere with a particular focus on non-Latin scripts such as Arabic or Chinese in both machine-actionable and human readable form. The urgency and value of ..read more

https://openmethods.dariah.eu/2023/07/08/multilingual-research-projects-non-latin-script-challenges-for-making-use-of-standards-authority-files-and-character-recognition/ OpenMethods introduction to: “Multilingual Research Projects: Non-Latin Script Challenges for Making Use of Standards, Authority Files, and Character Recognition”. 2023-07-08 13:41:15 Everyone of us is accustomed to reading academic contributions using the Latin alphabet, for which we have already standard characters and formats. But what about texts written in languages featuring different, ideographic-based alphabets (for e ..read more

https://openmethods.dariah.eu/2023/02/07/document-enrichment-as-a-tool-for-automated-interview-coding/ OpenMethods introduction to: "Document Enrichment as a Tool for Automated Interview Coding" 2023-02-07 08:45:29 Following our last post focusing on Critical Discourse Analysis, today we highlight an automated document enrichment pipeline for automated interview coding, proposed by Ajda Pretnar Žagar, Nikola Ðukic´, Rajko Muršic in their paper presented at the Conference on Language Technologies & Digital Humanities, Ljubljana 2022. As described in the "Essential Guide to Coding Qualitativ ..read more

https://openmethods.dariah.eu/2022/12/29/tools-for-critical-discourse-analysis-and-introduction-to-tool-critizism/ OpenMethods introduction to: Tools for Critical Discourse Analysis - and introduction to tool critizism 2022-12-29 19:32:30 In this video, Drs. Stephanie Vie and Jennifer deWinter explain some of the tools digital humanists can use for critical discourse analysis and visualization of data collected from social media platforms. Although not all the tools they mention are open source, the majority of them have free to use or freemium versions, including AntConc, a free-to-use concor ..read more

https://openmethods.dariah.eu/2022/11/23/sparql-for-music-when-melodies-meet-ontology/ OpenMethods introduction to: SPARQL for music: when melodies meet ontology 2022-11-23 15:50:39 Introduction: Developed in the context of the EU H2020 Polifonia project, the investigation deals with the potentialities of SPARQL Anything to to extract musical features, both at metadata and symbolic levels, from MusicXML files. The paper captures the procedure that has applied by starting from an overview about the application of ontologies to music, as well as of the so- called 'façade-based' approach to knowl ..read more

https://openmethods.dariah.eu/2022/11/21/humanities-data-analysis-case-studies-with-python-humanities-data-analysis-case-studies-with-python/ OpenMethods introduction to: Humanities Data Analysis: Case Studies with Python — Humanities Data Analysis: Case Studies with Python 2022-11-21 06:58:00 Introduction: Folgert Karsdorp, Mike Kestemont and Allen Riddell ‘s  interactive book, Humanities Data Analysis: Case Studies with Python had been written with the aim in mind to equip humanities students and scholars working with textual and tabular resources with practical, hands-on knowledge to b ..read more

https://openmethods.dariah.eu/2022/10/09/what-is-pixplot-dh-tools-youtube/ OpenMethods introduction to: What is PixPlot? (DH Tools) - YouTube 2022-10-09 06:59:58 This short video teaser summarizes the main characteristics of PixPlot, a Python-based tool for clustering images and analyzing them from a numerical perspective as well as its pedagogical relevance as far as machine learning is concerned. The paper "Visual Patterns Discovery in Large Databases of Paintings", presented at the Digital Humanities 2016 Conference held in Poland, can be considered the foundational text for the development ..read more

https://openmethods.dariah.eu/2022/09/19/navigating-the-centuries-with-the-mapping-of-the-republic-of-letters-project/ OpenMethods introduction to: Navigating the centuries with the 'Mapping of the Republic of Letters' project. 2022-09-19 12:37:08 In this post, we reach back in time to showcase an older project and highlight its impact on data visualization in Digital Humanities as well as its good practices to make different layers of scholarship available for increased transparency and reusability.   Developed at Stanford with other research partners ('Cultures of Knowledge' at Oxford ..read more