Modelling Scale in Historiographical Data

Armaselu, Florentina

Reference : Modelling Scale in Historiographical Data


	Document type :	Scientific congresses, symposiums and conference proceedings : Unpublished conference
	Discipline(s) :	Arts & humanities : History
	Focus Areas :	Computational Sciences
	To cite this reference:	http://hdl.handle.net/10993/37691

Title :	Modelling Scale in Historiographical Data
Language :	English
Author, co-author :	Armaselu, Florentina [University of Luxembourg > Luxembourg Center for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) > >]
Publication date :	9-Dec-2018
Peer reviewed :	Yes
Audience :	International
Event name :	EADH 2018: "Data in Digital Humanities"
Event date :	from 07-12-2018 to 09-12-2018
Event organizer :	European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) and National University of Ireland
Event place (city) :	Galway
Event country :	Ireland
Keywords :	[en] digital historiography ; global microhistory ; scale representation ; topic modelling ; discourse analysis
Abstract :	[en] The project will investigate the meaning of scale in historical writings, and more precisely how scale is expressed through language in historical discourse. This question draws attention to the conceptual and linguistic mechanisms at play in building historical knowledge, when the historian moves between different layers of analysis, narration or consulted sources, involving different degrees of generality. A small historiographical corpus, in which variations of scale are clearly present, will serve to develop the digital approach/tools/methodology. Depending on the findings of the project, an extension of the research to other types of corpora is envisaged. The paper presents a workflow and first experiments using topic modelling to analyse scale representation in historiographical data. Further experiments with more documents, other models and visualisation tools, as well as eventually creating a pipeline for semi-automatic restructuration of data as zoomable texts are also envisaged.
Research centres :	Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) > Digital History & Historiography (DHI)
Permalink :	http://hdl.handle.net/10993/37691
Other URL :	https://eadh2018.exordo.com/programme/presentation/74

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