{"title":"Using ontology to model time description in historical Chinese texts","authors":"Linxu Wang, Jun Wang, Tong Wei","doi":"10.1093/llc/fqad092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqad092","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Temporal information plays a crucial role in historical research, as it enables scholars to gain insights into the events and processes that have shaped the past. However, the complexity and diversity of temporal descriptions found in Chinese historical texts pose significant challenges for analyzing and interpreting this information. This article addresses these challenges by introducing the traditional Chinese time ontology (TCT Ontology), which integrates relevant concepts and different timing methods into an ontology. The TCT Ontology comprises four classes, including the TCT Record class, Chinese Calendar class, Historical Interval class, and Person class, to represent time descriptions in Chinese texts. By separating time records and the traditional Chinese calendar, the ontology provides a reference model for understanding time information in Chinese historical archives and serves as a basis for converting those time records to the Gregorian calendar. This accurate conversion is critical for humanistic research in Chinese history, as it enables scholars to engage in meaningful reading, studying, and research of the historical record.","PeriodicalId":45315,"journal":{"name":"Digital Scholarship in the Humanities","volume":"57 13","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139441059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Digital Humanities and Literary Studies. Martin Paul Eve","authors":"Tiping Su","doi":"10.1093/llc/fqad095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqad095","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45315,"journal":{"name":"Digital Scholarship in the Humanities","volume":"20 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139443360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Networks as interpretative frameworks: using co-citation analysis to explore large corpora of early modern letters","authors":"Paolo Rossini","doi":"10.1093/llc/fqad086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqad086","url":null,"abstract":"The analysis of co-citations, which occurs when two publications or authors are mentioned together in the same text, has long been established as a practice within scientometrics, particularly in the field of “science mapping”. However, historiography has shown less openness to utilizing co-citation analysis for distant reading purposes. To address this gap, this article presents a comprehensive methodology for applying co-citation analysis to extensive collections of historical documents, specifically 17th-century letters indexed in the ePistolarium database. In science mapping, co-citation serves as an indicator for tracking the development of scientific fields. Similarly, I employ co-citation to map the Dutch socio-intellectual landscape during the Scientific Revolution period (1623–87) and evaluate the strengths and limitations of this approach.","PeriodicalId":45315,"journal":{"name":"Digital Scholarship in the Humanities","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139373552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Digital Humanities and Modern Chinese Literature (Shuzi Renwen yu Zhonguo Xiandai Wenxue). He Wang","authors":"Chulin Shih, Hsin Ch'ien","doi":"10.1093/llc/fqad101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqad101","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45315,"journal":{"name":"Digital Scholarship in the Humanities","volume":"26 22","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139388811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using Bayesian phylogenetics to infer manuscript transmission history","authors":"Joey McCollum, Robert Turnbull","doi":"10.1093/llc/fqad089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqad089","url":null,"abstract":"Bayesian phylogenetic methods offer various models that would be especially suitable in the reconstruction of textual traditions, but text-critical applications of phylogenetics to date have generally not taken advantage of these features. In this article, we offer a way forward for text-critical phylogenetics. On the side of theory, we highlight multiple Bayesian phylogenetic models and discuss their relevance to textual criticism. More practically, we show how TEI XML collations of textual traditions can be encoded to facilitate robust analyses using these models in BEAST 2, with the teiphy Python package mediating the conversion from TEI XML to BEAST XML. Finally, we give a proof of concept for this approach, showing that the results of BEAST 2 analyses of a sample collation of the Epistle to the Ephesians under different clock models cohere with established findings on the textual tradition of this work.","PeriodicalId":45315,"journal":{"name":"Digital Scholarship in the Humanities","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138743735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A methodology for building domain ontology of cultural heritage","authors":"Tong Wei, Yuqi Chen","doi":"10.1093/llc/fqad045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqad045","url":null,"abstract":"Ontology plays a vital role in linking and publishing heritage data. However, the main difficulties of building ontology faced by heritage institutions are how the cultural heritage information is integrated into a fine-grained ontology. Therefore, following the ISO principles of Terminology (ISO 1087 and 704), this article proposed a term-concept-characteristic methodology that is user-friendly for cultural heritage experts to build a fine-grained ontology. This article aims to provide a method to integrate the fine-grained knowledge of cultural heritage into an ontology, especially when it is necessary to build a fine-grained ontology for particular purposes, such as knowledge-based terminological resources.","PeriodicalId":45315,"journal":{"name":"Digital Scholarship in the Humanities","volume":"37 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138502988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Film dialogue and R-stylo","authors":"Barry Salt","doi":"10.1093/llc/fqad062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqad062","url":null,"abstract":"The dialogue of a large number of American feature films of the last 30 years is analysed with the stylometric tools contained in the R-stylo package. Various interesting results showing the capabilities and restrictions of this statistical package emerge.","PeriodicalId":45315,"journal":{"name":"Digital Scholarship in the Humanities","volume":"37 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138502986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Principal components analysis in stylometry","authors":"Hugh Craig","doi":"10.1093/llc/fqad083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqad083","url":null,"abstract":"Principal components analysis (PCA) has been one of the staple methods used in stylometry. In a 2021 article, Pervez Rizvi casts doubt on this method and argues that some widely cited results based on it should be set aside. In the current article, I show that none of Rizvi’s theoretical claims or experimental results stand up to examination. Rizvi argues that discarding the principal components beyond the first two makes the method unreliable, but permutation testing of PCAs shows that the top components in these trials are significant and robust, and the results across many experiments show the combination of the first and second component to be effective in classification. Rizvi argues that PCA components must be treated separately, and much of his critique of the PCA method is based on this standpoint, but this is not the practice in the work presented in the publications he cites or in the wider literature. Rizvi is unable to replicate a chart in an article by Craig, but his replication, unlike the original, does not account for the widely varying sizes of samples in his data. The current article shows that Rizvi’s claims are misguided and that using PCA in the Burrows tradition to find and formalize authorial discriminations in text samples from plays of the Shakespearean era is efficacious and robust.","PeriodicalId":45315,"journal":{"name":"Digital Scholarship in the Humanities","volume":"37 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138502987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"All the world’s a (hyper)graph: A data drama","authors":"Corinna Coupette, Jilles Vreeken, Bastian Rieck","doi":"10.1093/llc/fqad071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqad071","url":null,"abstract":"We introduce Hyperbard, a dataset of diverse relational data representations derived from Shakespeare’s plays. Our representations range from simple graphs capturing character co-occurrence in single scenes to hypergraphs encoding complex communication settings and character contributions as hyperedges with edge-specific node weights. By making multiple intuitive representations readily available for experimentation, we facilitate rigorous representation robustness checks in graph learning, graph mining, and network analysis, highlighting the advantages and drawbacks of specific representations. Leveraging the data released in Hyperbard, we demonstrate that many solutions to popular graph mining problems are highly dependent on the representation choice, thus calling current graph curation practices into question. As an homage to our data source, and asserting that science can also be art, we present our points in the form of a play.1","PeriodicalId":45315,"journal":{"name":"Digital Scholarship in the Humanities","volume":"37 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138502985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Great lengths: a review of website preservation activities at three American Universities with digital humanities centers","authors":"Drew VandeCreek","doi":"10.1093/llc/fqad080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqad080","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Sustaining grant funded digital humanities websites has become a major challenge in the field. Three American universities with digital humanities centers kept eight of nine websites funded by the United States National Endowment for the Humanities (1996–2003) online to 2022. Center personnel made website preservation a part of everyday operations without additional funds devoted to the task. Web software developed rapidly in this period, however and center staff members’ efforts often did not succeed in providing necessary updates. Funded materials became increasingly obsolete. The extent of center personnel’s efforts, compared with their results, suggests that their approach itself will in many cases prove unsustainable. In one case, a university shifted responsibility for a popular website to its library. The library completely rebuilt it, only to find that the resource had again become obsolete less than 10 years later. Reconstruction should therefore be understood as an ongoing process, and its cost and complexity suggest that many online resources will not benefit from it. A new approach converting websites to a static state can facilitate sustainability at lower cost, but it also requires resources for implementation. Two American funding agencies have recently made grants available for website preservation and reconstruction. Similar organizations in other parts of the world have not followed suit and should consider doing so. In the absence of a comprehensive effort to identify and evaluate legacy websites for preservation, the competitive process of securing grant awards can begin to determine which legacy websites will survive.","PeriodicalId":45315,"journal":{"name":"Digital Scholarship in the Humanities","volume":"28 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135086751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}