Almila Akdag Salah, Andrea Scharnhorst, Sally Wyatte-Humanities group

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Analysing an academic field through the lensesof Internet Science: Digital Humanities as a

Virtual Community

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Koopman, R., Wang, S., Scharnhorst, A., Englebienne, G.: Ariadne's thread: Interactive navigation in a world of networked information. In: CHI'15 ExtendedAbstracts. (2015)http://thoth.pica.nl/relate?input=virtual+communities+&type=1&type=3&dots=&hubness=5&show=100&fsize=100

What is a virtual community?

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Virtual communities as a topic Virtual communities cited by different fields

A baseline matrix for the analysis of VC

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Evolution over timeUser viewsinstitutionalization

JRA 6 – typologyAnalysis of shared/unique features of VC

behavioural

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Digital libraries

Science, ComputerScience, ontologies

Many different humanities fieldsProminently language &Literary studies

The case of Digital Humanities

Koopman, R., Wang, S., Scharnhorst, A., Englebienne, G.: Ariadne's thread: Interactive navigation in a world of networked information. In: CHI'15 ExtendedAbstracts. (2015)

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Rafols, I., Porter, A.L., Leydesdor, L.: Science overlay maps: A new tool for research policy and library management. Journal of the American Society for information Science and Technology 61(9) (2010).

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(a) Institutional Collaboration of DH (b) International Collaboration of DH

Leydesdor, L., Wagner, C.S.: International collaboration in science and the formation of a core group. Journal of Informetrics 2(4) (2008)

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Lessons we learned

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What can we learn to analyse Digital Humanities if we conceive this research arena as a VC

-Certain aspects of Digital Humanities Research practices are emphasized, such as:

- Scientific blogs- Use of social media such as Twitter, Facebook

etc.- E-publications that are not archived (DH doesn’t

have a publication outlet such as arxiv)- Publication of code/software/tools developed for

DH projects-Offline aspects such as attendance to DH conferences, workshops, meetings become more important

Monitoring of VC – question of data

Melissa Terras started a data collection 2011, see her blog http://melissaterras.blogspot.nl/2011/11/stats-and-digital-humanities.html

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Analytic frames for a new scientific field

Funding, university faculties, projects, start-upsFunding, university faculties, projects, start-ups

Methods, textbooks, courses, chairsMethods, textbooks, courses, chairs

Self-organized, autonomous academiaNorms, values, behavior, institutions

What are legitimate questions and answers?Who is recognized for valuable contributions?What are the appropriate places to talk and

publish?What are the most visible institutions?

Self-organized, autonomous academiaNorms, values, behavior, institutions

What are legitimate questions and answers?Who is recognized for valuable contributions?What are the appropriate places to talk and

publish?What are the most visible institutions?

Potential traces: researchers, publications, journals, books, courses,conferences, funding, chairs, …..

References•Koopman, R., Wang, S., Scharnhorst, A., Englebienne, G.: Ariadne's thread: Interactive navigation in a world of networked information. In: CHI'15 Extended Abstracts. (2015)•Wyatt, S., Millen, D., eds.: Meaning and Perspectives in the Digital Humanities. Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2014)•Akdag Salah, A.A., Scharnhorst, A., Leydesdor, L.: Mapping the ow of digital humanities. In: Digital Humanities Conference (DH2010), Kings College, London, UK (June 2010)•Leydesdor, L., Akdag Salah, A.A.: Maps on the basis of the arts & humanities citation index: The journals leonardo and art journal versus digital humanities as a topic. Journal of the American Society for information Science and Technology 61(4) (2010) •Wyatt, S., Leydesdorf, L.: e-humanities or digital humanities: Is that the question? In: Digital Humanities Workshop. (2013)