DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly

2017 11.4

BeNeLux Conference

Editors: Joris van Zundert, Sally Chambers, Mike Kestemont, Marijn Koolen, Catherine Jones

Front Matter

[en] DHBeNeLux: Incubator for Digital Humanities in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg

Joris van Zundert, Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences; Sally Chambers, Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities, Ghent University; Mike Kestemont, Antwerp University; Marijn Koolen, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision; Catherine Jones, University of Luxembourg

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Articles

[en] Supporting the Exploration of Online Cultural Heritage Collections: The Case of the Dutch Folktale Database

Iwe Everhardus Christiaan Muiser, University of Twente, Enschede / Meertens Institute, Amsterdam; Mariët Theune, University of Twente, Enschede; Ruud de Jong, University of Twente, Enschede; Nigel Smink, University of Twente, Enschede; Dolf Trieschnigg, MyDatafactory, Meppel; Djoerd Hiemstra, University of Twente, Enschede; Theo Meder, Meertens Institute, Amsterdam / University of Groningen, Groningen

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[en] Semantic Enrichment of a Multilingual Archive with Linked Open Data

Max De Wilde, Université libre de Bruxelles(ULB), Information Science Department; Simon Hengchen, University of Helsinki (UH)

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[en] Coca-Cola: An Icon of the American Way of Life. An Iterative Text Mining Workflow for Analyzing Advertisements in Dutch Twentieth-Century Newspapers

Melvin Wevers, DH Group, KNAW HUC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Jesper Verhoef, TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands

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[en] In a test bed with Kafka. Introducing a mixed-method approach to digital stylistics

J. Berenike Herrmann, Basel University

Abstract [en] In the emerging field of digital style analysis, scholars have been dwelling on a perceived irreconcilability of “distant reading” and “close reading” . This situation is somewhat reminiscent of the “paradigm wars” in social science, where for years, one could either adhere to a quantitative or a qualitative mindset. Taking seriously both the hermeneutic and the empirical traditions of (digital) stylistic research, the present paper proposes “a mixed-methods” coalition of approaches. To establish links between the mixed-methods paradigm from Social Sciences and stylistic practices within Digital Humanities (DH), the present article discusses common methods of distant, close, and ‘scalable reading’ as well as a flexibly adjustable definition of style . In the practical part of the paper, I report a ‘mixed-methods digital stylistics’ study on Franz Kafka’s prose. Scaling the degree of abstraction and contextuality of the data according to particular research questions, I combine (1) “quantitative hypothesis testing” (examining Kafka’s stylistic “uniqueness” by means of a stylometric measure); (2) “quantitative exploration” (analyzing the first hundred statistically overrepresented words in Kafka); and (3) “qualitative text analysis” (KWIC and close reading to investigate the functions of a particular style marker in the context of Kafka’s The Judgment [Das Urteil]). Generally, for digital stylistics, I propose (a) raising epistemological and methodological awareness within the field, and (b) framing the research within the mixed-method paradigm that in fact seems very well suited to DH.

[en] Unraveling reported dreams with text analytics

Iris Hendrickx, Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Centre for Language and Speech Technology, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Louis Onrust, Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Florian Kunneman, Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Ali Hürriyetoğlu, Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Wessel Stoop, Centre for Language and Speech Technology, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Antal van den Bosch, Meertens Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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[en] Mining Embodied Emotions: A Comparative Analysis of Sentiment and Emotion in Dutch Texts, 1600-1800.

Inger Leemans, Faculty of Humanities, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Janneke M. van der Zwaan, Netherlands eScience Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Isa Maks, Faculty of Humanities, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Erika Kuijpers, Faculty of Humanities, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Kristine Steenbergh, Faculty of Humanities, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Articles

[en] Crafting in Games

April Grow, University of California Santa Cruz; Melanie Dickinson, University of California Santa Cruz; Johnathan Pagnutti, University of California Santa Cruz; Noah Wardrip-Fruin, University of California Santa Cruz; Michael Mateas, University of California Santa Cruz

Abstract [en] This paper analyzes the design space for crafting systems within games. A crafting system is the collection of game mechanics which enable a player to create virtual objects within a game, with examples ranging from making a pickaxe or placing blocks in Minecraft, to combining ingredients to create items in World of Warcraft, or designing a city in SimCity. Within both game design and game journalism there is no systematic understanding of what crafting means in games — rather, the term is used in an informal “I’ll know it when I see it” way, with different ideas of what constitutes “crafting” becoming conventional for different game genres. We aim to create a more systematic analysis and language for virtual crafting, using a design space approach where we identify seven features of crafting systems; any given crafting system is understood in terms of the degree and manner in which it exemplifies these features. The features we identify are: recipe definition (how well-defined are the player steps for creating a virtual object), fidelity of action (how detailed is the player-performed enactment of crafting), completion constraints (how is creation constrained by virtual “resources”), variable outcome (how much can the result vary when the player performs the same crafting actions), system recognition of outcome (to what degree do other game systems “understand” and take account of what a player has made), player expressiveness (how big is the creative space provided to the player), and progression (how do the possibilities of crafting change over time). We apply these dimensions to the analysis of 64 crafting systems across 47 example games. This more systematic analysis of the crafting system design space provides a deeper understanding of how games function as a creative and artistic medium for players, and provides a language and framework enabling scholars, critics and developers to more deeply understand existing crafting systems as well as unexplored opportunities for future crafting systems.

[en] Open Access and the Theological Imagination

Talea Anderson, Washington State University; David Squires, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

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[en] Tracking the telepathic sublime as a phenomenon in a digital humanities archive

Isabel Pedersen, University of Ontario Institute of Technology; Quinn DuPont, University of Washington

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[en] Introducing DREaM (Distant Reading Early Modernity)

Matthew Milner; Stephen Wittek, Carnegie Mellon; Stéfan Sinclair, McGill University

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[en] Continuous Integration and Unit Testing of Digital Editions

Bridget Almas, The Alpheios Project, Ltd.; Thibault Clérice, Centre Jean-Mabillon (École des chartes) - PSL

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[en] Scaffolding and Play Approaches to Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Assessment and Iteration in Topically-Driven Courses

Daniel G. Tracy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Elizabeth Massa Hoiem, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Reviews

[en] Environing Media: A Review of Nicole Starosielski’s The Undersea Network

Madison Percy Jones, University of Florida

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Case Studies

Author Biographies

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BeNeLux Conference

Editors: Joris van Zundert, Sally Chambers, Mike Kestemont, Marijn Koolen, Catherine Jones

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