Data in the Humanities by Aisling Quigley https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot September 8, 2021 en-us 2021-09-06 22:09:55 UTC 2025-11-30 02:26:15 UTC hello@padlet.com What are the humanities? aislingquigley1 https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/1722371781 2021-09-07 16:20:46 UTC https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/1722371781 Three things: aislingquigley1 https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/1722718321
  • Data as constructed artifacts
  • Data as interpretable texts
  • Data as processable information- "For humanists, the results of information processing are open to the same kinds of hermeneutic exploration and interpretation as the original data." 

]]> 2021-09-07 18:49:36 UTC https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/1722718321 Quote from Trevor Owens aislingquigley1 https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/1722720773 "When we consider what a dataset means to individuals within a certain context, we open up a range of fruitful interpretive questions which the humanities are particularly well situated to explicate." ]]> 2021-09-07 18:50:49 UTC https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/1722720773 Caroline Spurgeon aislingquigley1 https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/1722849005 2021-09-07 20:01:03 UTC https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/1722849005 Chart aislingquigley1 https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/1722852711 2021-09-07 20:03:28 UTC https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/1722852711 Dataset Exploration aislingquigley1 https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/1722963947
  • What/who does this dataset represent?
  • What is the relationship between the data you have and the objects of study? Are they one and the same? 
  • What are some questions you could ask of this dataset? (What could you do with this dataset?)
  • Do you need other information or datasets to do something with this set of data? 
  • How could you gather this other information or data?
    • ]]>     2021-09-07 21:16:54 UTC https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/1722963947     Collection Dive aislingquigley1 https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/1723013660 https://docs.google.com/document/d/14GYdDEVJ2qr8ivCBVErazlGer1GwdCcd9HFLM6-Fv3g/edit ]]> 2021-09-07 21:58:05 UTC https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/1723013660 AGENDA aislingquigley1 https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/1723498808
  • Quick leftover from Friday
  • Context: what are the humanities? 
  • What is/are data in the humanities? 
  • Dataset Exploration
  • Readings
  • Project Exploration
  • Introduction to Collection Deep Dive Assignment
    • ]]>     2021-09-08 02:19:24 UTC https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/1723498808     National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act, 1965 aislingquigley1 https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/2653743128 "The term ‘humanities’ includes, but is not limited to, the study and interpretation of the following: language, both modern and classical; linguistics; literature; history; jurisprudence; philosophy; archaeology; comparative religion; ethics; the history, criticism, and theory of the arts; those aspects of the social sciences which have humanistic content and employ humanistic methods; and the study and application of the humanities to the human environment with particular attention to reflecting our diverse heritage, traditions, and history and to the relevance of the humanities to the current conditions of national life."]]> 2023-07-31 20:27:32 UTC https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/2653743128 aislingquigley1 https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/2653747313 2023-07-31 20:42:10 UTC https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/2653747313 Mapping Prejudice aislingquigley1 https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/2653747667 2023-07-31 20:43:39 UTC https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/2653747667 aislingquigley1 https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/2653747971 2023-07-31 20:44:40 UTC https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/2653747971 aislingquigley1 https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/2653748183 2023-07-31 20:45:20 UTC https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/2653748183 What are some examples of research materials in the humanities? aislingquigley1 https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/2654229601 2023-08-01 15:07:22 UTC https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/2654229601 aislingquigley1 https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/2654942284 2023-08-02 17:47:01 UTC https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/2654942284 aislingquigley1 https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/2654942490 2023-08-02 17:47:46 UTC https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/2654942490 aislingquigley1 https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/2654943631
  • What is the goal of this project? Are there guiding research questions?
  • Who are the authors? What are their affiliations and roles? Are students involved?
  • How was this project funded?
  • What is the source of the data?
  • How has the data been processed or modified for this project?
  • What do the visualizations show? Are they interactive?
  • What tools or technologies were used to build this project?
  • What was interesting about this project? What was confusing?

    • ]]>     2023-08-02 17:50:31 UTC https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/2654943631     aislingquigley1 https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/2654953506 2023-08-02 18:15:57 UTC https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/2654953506 aislingquigley1 https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/2654961223 "The modern human sciences are rooted in the Renaissance shift from a medieval, church-dominated, theocratic worldview to a human-centered one."
    Digital_Humanities, 2012]]>     2023-08-02 18:35:19 UTC https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/2654961223     Posner reading: aislingquigley1 https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/2681447952 1. Why might humanists be resistant to seeing their research as data? ]]> 2023-09-01 18:06:56 UTC https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/2681447952 aislingquigley1 https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/2681453357 2023-09-01 18:13:38 UTC https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/2681453357 Challenges for humanists: aislingquigley1 https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/2681463043 1. Conflict with publishers who may not want materials to be used in a certain way, or may not want you to publish open data, etc.
    2. Not generally creating data, but mining it, so have to do a lot of work to make it usable
    3. Humanities datasets are hard to find!
    4. Need to improve accessibility of datasets and tools for data visualization.
    5. Need help with data-modeling! What columns to include in the dataset? What is a data model? A model of exactly what we're collecting, how it is going to be formatted, and the most difficult: what information we don't care about. This is how we organize material into neat rows and columns.
    6. Data specifications don't work- e.g. specific timing standards vs. circa ]]>     2023-09-01 18:23:23 UTC https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/2681463043     Data in the Humanities: aislingquigley1 https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/2681497589 "a digital, selectively constructed, machine-actionable abstraction representing some aspects of a given object of humanistic inquiry." -Christof Schöch, "Big? Smart? Clean? Messy? Data in the Humanities," Journal of Digital Humanities, 2013]]> 2023-09-01 19:06:34 UTC https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/2681497589 "Among core humanistic values are inquiry, critical thinking, debate, pluralism, balancing innovation and tradition, and exploration and critique." aislingquigley1 https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/2687483917 "This is Why We Fight," Lisa Spiro]]> 2023-09-06 20:45:03 UTC https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/2687483917 Stranger Visions, Heather Dewey-Hagborg aislingquigley1 https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/2691118183 2023-09-08 18:07:30 UTC https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/2691118183 Sarah Watson, "Data is the new '____'" aislingquigley1 https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/2691123218 "We need a new framing of a personal, embodied relationship to data. Embodied metaphors have the potential to bring big data back down to a human scale and ground data in lived experience, which in turn, will help to advance the public’s investment, interpretation, and understanding of our relationship to our data."]]> 2023-09-08 18:11:50 UTC https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/2691123218 aislingquigley1 https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/2691137214 2023-09-08 18:22:55 UTC https://padlet.com/aislingquigley1/u6y5rb3jrro4n1ot/wish/2691137214