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Page 1: Digital Humanities: an Historical Perspective Jane Ohlmeyer Trinity College Dublin
Page 2: Digital Humanities: an Historical Perspective Jane Ohlmeyer Trinity College Dublin

Digital Humanities: an Historical Perspective

Jane OhlmeyerTrinity College Dublin

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My backgroundProfessor of Modern History 1641 Depositions Project and TCD-igital initiatives Digital Humanities ObservatoryChair of Irish Manuscripts Committee on DigitizationChair of IRCHSS/DARIAH CommitteeIrish representative on ESFRI, DARIAH, MSEG for EDL - Europeana

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The Ugly Duckling

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The History …

Digital Humanities is a field of research concerned with the intersection of computing, information management and the disciplines of the humanitiesRoberto A. BusaRossetti archive (http://www.rossettiarchive.org/) Valley of the Shadow project (http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/) New questions and new knowledge

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Do we remember the past?

or do we risk repeating it?

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The Challenges in Current Research Practices

LinearityIsolated activityLayered approachManual practicesDisconnected materials The Trinity-Microsoft Virtual Research Environment

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Why the Humanities?

Dirty, noisy data Technology deficient researchers with strong analytical skillsDigital Content Analysis – text mining, visualization, searchDigital Content Management – personalisation, metadata, interoperability(Web) Services Support – storage, curation and preservation(Web) Social Networking – crowd sourcing, community annotation, social network analysis, knowledge extraction

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A Case Study: the 1641 Depositions

Conservation

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‘that one whoe was a Scochman pinched with extreame hunger privately in the night tyme opened the grave of a man that was buried within the liberties of the Castle and fed vpon the dead and

buried mans flesh Some of the souldjers of the Castle partly espyring him tooke ayme & thincking him an enemy shott

him through soe that he dyed, And that Scochmans wife afterwards hanged to

death her owne child and eate her flesh for want of meate:’

TCD MS 814, County Offaly (King’s County),

Deposition of Joseph Joice, who gave details of

cannibalism that occurred in that county.

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Dirty, Noisy Data

The victim provides a

detailed list of his losses including

cattle, horses, sheep, tithes and his farm

to the value of £1570.

TCD MS 814, King’s County (Offaly), Deposition of Henry Knowles, 24 August 1642

TCD MS 839, fols 113r-114vDeposition of Thomas Windsor, Londonderry

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