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Background: Since 2011, the Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada project has sought to make the history of the LGBTQ2+ movement in Canada more accessible to a wide range of users. Analysis: We review approaches we have taken to further our vision, from digitization to graph databases, ontology development, and public engagement through Wikipedia edit-a-thons. Conclusions and implications: Having created a robust interface for sharing LGBTQ2+ history, we are able to focus our attention on building up publicly available information on marginalized communities, while also strategizing for the long-term sustainability of our project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores the relations among space, caste and gender in Dalit massacres by locating the female survivors of the Kilvenmani massacre (1968) using feminist geocriticism and digital cartography. The introduction explores feminist scholarship in the field of GIS in order to situate the present study within the broader scholarship. This is followed by a section on the background and existing research on the Kilvenmani massacre. The next section summarizes the hybrid/mixed methodology which is a combination of feminist geocriticism (locating the female survivors in the place of violence) and digital cartography (physically locating the survivors in geographical maps and analyzing the relations). The section also details the materials that are considered in this article to identify the female survivors. The materials consist of both fictional (novels, films) and non-fictional (documentary, newspaper reports) texts that are closely read to understand the Dalit female experiences of the massacre. The next section gives the mapping of the female survivors using QGIS software along with the analysis of the data and the results to foreground the relation among caste, space, and gender in Dalit massacres. Both case studies, I (on the Marichjhapi massacre) and II (on the Kilvenmani massacre), are part of a larger study that aims to create a comprehensive spatial archive on the female survivors of selected Dalit massacres in independent India. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cet article propose la construction d’une modélisation systémique du numérique en éducation dans le cadre d’une recherche appliquée aux politiques publiques (ministère de l’Éducation nationale français). Considérant le numérique dans sa pervasivité, il met en évidence l’importance d’une approche complexe pour comprendre la transformation des pratiques. Comme modalité de recherche appliquée, nous présentons les groupes thématiques numériques (GTnum). L’approche méthodologique combine une posture réflexive éclairée par les apports de la recherche, des choix conceptuels centrés sur les humanités numériques et l’approche systémique, la recherche participative et la science ouverte via le carnet Hypothèses « Éducation, numérique et recherche ». Comme résultats, notre modélisation est centrée sur un « numérique environnant » et six unités d’action, mis à l’épreuve via les thématiques des GTnum. Nous interprétons ces résultats par une comparaison avec d’autres cadres systémiques, une application aux axes de la transformation numérique en académies, une réflexion prospective avec le développement de l’IA générative et des perspectives pour la recherche participative. Enfin, l’article discute des limites et apports de cette démarche : variabilité de la compréhension des enjeux et de l’intégration des apports de la recherche, mais pistes pour l’anticipation d’une nouvelle configuration du numérique avec la place de l’IA.

Le développement durable constitue un enjeu majeur des prochaines années, pour l’ensemble des activités humaines ; celles relatives à la recherche scientifique n’y échappent pas. Cet article se penche sur les enjeux environnementaux des humanités numériques. L’article est constitué de trois parties. La première partie de l’article expose le contexte et les enjeux autour de l’impact du monde numérique en général sur l’environnement. La deuxième partie de l’article s’intéresse plus précisément à l’impact environnemental des humanités numériques autour de trois axes : la numérisation, l’exploitation et la pérennisation des données. Enfin, la troisième partie expose brièvement quelques initiatives issues du domaine archivistique.

This survey article on studies in premodern Arabic legal documents indicates major scholarly editions from the last 20 years. It then depicts new digitally based methods of how to analyze such specimen from a comparative perspective as relics from Muslim legal practices throughout the 8th to 15th centuries. As conclusion, it presents a chronology of notarial practices interrelating with the changing role of juridical thinking (fiqh) in Islamic law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper's goal is to examine the topos of curative laughter, by means of the digital humanities. Is this idea truly specific and recurrent throughout the early modern collections of merry tales? To determine if this is the case, we used a freeware corpus analysis toolkit to check on various peritexts, that head 89 jestbooks, 158 comic literary works, and 311 serious works, published in French between the end of the XVth century and 1699. We carried out a quantitative and qualitative study about the way the lexicon linked to health, cure and medicine is used in each corpus. We could thus highlight the specificity of collections gathering jests and merry tales. It does not lie only in the claim that relaxation is good for health (a claim they share with all comic works), but also and more precisely in the recurrent use of the word melancholy, for commercial purposes and legitimation of pleasure. Specific as well is the link between pseudo-medical considerations and other practical tips about the uses of a book designed for collective consumption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Au fil du temps et compte tenu de leurs mutations intrinsèques et de celles de leurs disciplines connexes, les Sciences de l'information et de la communication ont continué à évoluer avec succès grâce à leur nature interdisciplinaire. Cependant, le progrès le plus significatif a été la transformation numérique en cours, particulièrement avec l'émergence du web de données et des humanités numériques. Malgré les débats et controverses, les humanités numériques sont enfin intégrées aux sciences sociales. L'article vise à contribuer à l'institutionnalisation des humanités numériques en sciences de l'information et de la communication en examinant leur intégration avec les données gouvernementales ouvertes au Maroc. Cette étude évalue l'offre OGD du ministère de la Culture, des institutions et des organismes info-culturels publiée sur la plateforme www.data.gov.ma et leur adhésion aux principes d'ouverture des données publiques. Enfin, l'étude identifie et analyse les principales limites du processus éditorial de ces données gouvernementales ouvertes, qui manquent toujours d'une stratégie de gouvernance des données et sont tiraillées entre des préoccupations technologiques et méthodologiques.

Les archives d’auteurs contemporains (2ème ½ XXe - XXIe siècle) restent un domaine contraint et peu exploité, essentiellement pour des questions de droit. Pourtant, ces archives récentes sont une mémoire vive, et les sources directes constituées par leurs dépositaires peuvent être enrichies, expliquées, augmentées par des témoignages oraux. Ces fonds sont souvent denses, variés (en nature et supports de documents), riches en informations. Ils permettent un éclairage direct sur les questions qui entourent la biographie des auteurs, la génétique de leur œuvre et leurs processus créatifs, leur environnement social et de travail. Les humanités numériques peuvent permettre à travers le développement et l’usage d’outils d’exploitation et de médiation numérique, de faire redécouvrir l’œuvre de ces auteurs, et d’ouvrir leurs archives aux chercheurs et au grand public. C’est dans cette perspective que se place le projet de valorisation numérique de l’œuvre de l’auteur, sociologue et homme de théâtre Jean Duvignaud.

D'après les auteurs de ce compte rendu du livre "Humanités numériques : la culture face aux nouvelles technologies" publié en avril 2016 par Dominique Vinck, ce dernier montre que les humanités numériques vont bien au-delà de la bonne maîtrise de l'informatique. Il examine les relations entre les sciences, les techniques et les sociétés à l'ère du numérique. Il analyse les transformations subies par les sciences humaines et sociales (SHS) ainsi que les nouvelles relations qu'elles créent. Pour faciliter l'organisation de son analyse, Vinck utilise une structure en question/réponse et commence par la question de la définition des humanités numériques (HN). Il souligne, en ouverture, la difficulté de définir les Humanités Numériques et de cerner leur périmètre. Il explique également comment les technologies numériques et leurs entreprises peuvent être à la fois des préservateurs des patrimoines culturels mondiaux et des renforçateurs d'inégalités et de fractures numériques. Il évoque certaines pratiques que certains pays du Nord adoptent pour contrôler, voler ou s’approprier : par la reproduction illégale, la commercialisation et l’utilisation non autorisée des patrimoines culturels des pays de Sud. L’auteur encourage les États à prendre des mesures pour protéger leur propriété intellectuelle. Il suggère également que les pays du Nord travaillent avec les pays du Sud pour promouvoir la numérisation, l'utilisation et l'appropriation équitable de ces patrimoines culturels.

Cet article examine la relation entre les humanités numériques et les sciences de l'information, discutant de leurs similarités et de leur complémentarité, et conclut avec des études de cas illustratives et des définitions de termes clés. Les deux disciplines sont liées à la technologie numérique, à l'information et aux objets culturels, au comportement humain et sont centrales à la gestion et l'analyse de données. Les sciences de l'information sont responsables de la préparation des données et de leur gestion tout au long de leur cycle de vie, tandis que les humanités numériques ont un potentiel important dans l'utilisation des archives et des collections spéciales comme laboratoires de recherche. L'article aborde également le rôle de l'automatisation et de l'intelligence artificielle dans le développement de techniques et de méthodes utilisées dans les humanités numériques. Il explore des études de cas inspirantes dans le monde des bibliothèques et des archives, mettant en évidence le rôle culturel et les relations interdisciplinaires et transdisciplinaires impliquées. Les exemples comprennent des archives numériques dans le domaine artistique, des institutions nationales et des projets européens tels que la Bibliothèque européenne et Time Machine Europe, qui combinent les humanités numériques et les sciences de l'information. L'article conclut en soulignant la relation interdisciplinaire et transdisciplinaire continue entre les humanités numériques et les sciences de l'information, ainsi que les défis et les développements futurs dans le domaine.

Evolving digital tools are opening new avenues of inquiry for historical research. This research note provides a methodology for collecting historical data on government grants to non-governmental organizations. State funding has had a profound impact on the voluntary sector since the 1960s. The women's movement, in particular, has been deeply impacted by the state's intervention into the voluntary sector. Using grants data has the potential to provide unique insights into the dynamics between the state and civil society. Among other things, it enables historians to track organizations over time periods and jurisdictions; to document the diversity of organizations in the voluntary sector; to identify new organizations for historical research; and to compare funding trends among organizations or governments by region, time period, and issue area. The methodology presented in this study includes the use of digital tools to collect, process, and analyze grants data from multiple levels of government while sharing some preliminary findings on the impact of state funding on the women's movement in Canada since the 1960s. The data reveal, among other things, how state funding has fostered the proliferation of voluntary organizations and privileged certain organizations within the movement as well as vast disparities in funding among regions within Canada. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper tries to counter some misassumptions about the computer and computation especially in relation to humanities and human behavior and they amount to what the author calls “the computational fallacy. The paper discusses a number of points such as the physiology of the computer, the Etymology of basic terms in the field, and the current approaches especially in mainstream digital humanities which reduce computation to a set of “tools”. The paper then proceeds to discuss some counter arguments such as rethinking the notion of programmability which should substitute “calculation” as the core of computation, considering the transformative nature of the computer and its media using the ideas of some theorists like Manovich and Drucker, and some new approaches that view computation differently like Computational Thinking, Algorithmic criticism, and Speculative computing.Cet article essaie de contrer quelques suppositions erronées sur l’ordinateur et la computation, plus particulièrement leur relation aux sciences humaines et au comportement humain qui équivaut à ce que l’auteur appelle « the computational fallacy » ou l’erreur computationnelle. Cet article aborde de nombreux points, tels que la physiologie de l’ordinateur, l’étymologie de termes de base dans ce domaine, ainsi que les approches courantes, particulièrement les approches dominantes dans les humanités numériques qui réduisent la computation comme un ensemble « d’outils ». Ensuite, l’article poursuit en discutant les contre-arguments comme les nouvelles réflexions des notions de programmation qui devraient substituer le calcul au cœur de la computation, considérant la nature transformante de l’ordinateur et ses médias utilisant les idées de quelques théoristes dont Manovich et Drucker, et quelques nouvelles approches qui voient la computation différemment comme « Computational Thinking » ou la pensée computationnelle, « Algorithmic criticism » ou la critique algorithmique et « Speculative computing » ou la computation spéculative.

An experimental and prospective study of educational extension is presented that mobilizes a descriptive analysis, from the perspective of cultural and environmental heritage, of the bridge-book for children and adults, Portugal Pequenino by Raul Brandão and Maria Angelina Brandão, with a view to the production of content for a mobile digital application. Building on from prior investigative experience of the authors in the development of the exploratory project "Raul Brandão and intergenerational relations at the digital humanities interface", it aims to develop a new dimension of this initiative. It consists of a brief approach to the literature review of the transdisciplinary area Digital Humanities in Portugal, the theoretical-methodological framework of which that underpins the study presented. Digital Humanities has managed to bring together a community of researchers that tends to grow and assert itself (Alves, 2016 a) and b), albeit in a global mapping, with regard to Portuguese-speaking heritages, the performance is lower than that of other traditions and cultures, namely Anglo-Saxon (Pereira, 2015: 110-140). However, under the impact of the increasing consolidation of the inter/transdisciplinary area of Digital Humanities on an international scale, this new field of research in Portugal has been gradually growing into a broader movement of renewal of discourses and practices of affirmation and integration of digital media transversal to the Humanities and Social Sciences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Digital Humanities are generally considered as the application of digital methods and technologies to the more traditional areas of Humanities studies. The main objective of this work is to investigate whether and how three-dimensional (3D) digitization contributes to the affirmation of Digital Humanities. Our specific objectives were to suggest a definition for DH and 3D Digitization and to reflect on how these two defined concepts work together. In a first phase, we reflect on the state of the art and to this end we used specialized bibliography. Subsequently, an analysis was made of websites relevant to the subject in question. The article includes a reflection on the theme to be addressed, for which method research and document analysis wase used. The main results and conclusions of this investigation allow us to say that 3D scanning revolutionizes the way in which research in Humanities is done today because it allows us to see different perspectives of what has already existed, enabling advances in research and investigation. This is a new way of approaching the past, but projecting into the future. New fields and research topics are emerging and modern and attractive teaching materials are being created. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The approach to epistemic cultures exposes the differences in the construction of the processes of production and creation of knowledge between the different academic fields, which, in turn, implies the fragmentation of knowledge. The digital humanities are an inter and transdisciplinary field composed of different epistemic cultures marked by different knowledge production practices that differ from each other. In the current scenario of academic communication, the discourse around open practices in the course of research has increasingly taken a prominent place. However, this discourse, under the open science paradigm, proves to be more framed in the context of the epistemic cultures of science, and does not fully consider other domains of knowledge. This study aims to frame the epistemic cultures of the digital humanities in the discourse of openness of knowledge, through a literature review about digital humanities and open science. Its conclusion points to the need to adopt a specific discourse around the openness of knowledge, which considers the diversity of academic communication practices, including those that are specific to the humanities, as well as to the fact that the digital humanities can contribute to the consolidation of this discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Museum visiting as a phenomena is apprehended since the first museal forms in the XVIIth century from which our contemporary museums inherit (Schaer, 1993). The emergence of a consideration for displaying objects is part of a historical context marked by the great discoveries, the values of renaissance humanism and, later, the philosophy of the Enlightenment. Although the composition of target audiences has changed over the centuries (Rasse, 2001), the concerns of exhibition designers have always dealt with three central elements : objects, publics and spaces. The XXth century particularly witnesses the central place given to the visitor and then, in the XXIth century, to his experience. This paradigm leads to methodological difficulties related to the capture of a visiting experience, especially as the data are produced in a natural situation and in action (Schmitt, 2015). First, the article invites the reader to discover various approaches for more than a century. Then, it presents a new methodological framework designed to capture visit experience combining RFID technology and interviews. The last part of the article proposes to explore the first results through a theoretical device based on language sciences and particularly on the analysis of interactions in context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article presents a study of the French-speaking digital humanities. It is based on the experience of two research engineers from the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) who have been studying these issues for the last ten years. They conducted a survey at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS-Paris) which enabled them to draw up an overview of the transformation of the profession of humanities and social sciences research engineers in the context of the digital humanities. The Digit_Hum initiative, which they run in parallel with their respective activities at the ENS, also provided information for this overview thanks to its role as a space for discussion about the digital humanities along with training and structuring of this field at the ENS and the Université Paris Sciences & Lettres (PSL).

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Le séminaire « Patrimoine architectural et Humanités numériques » est une pédagogie tournée vers les enjeux patrimoniaux de l’analyse et de la conservation du patrimoine architectural mettant en oeuvre les outils numériques. Il s’inscrit dans le contexte de l’extension des sciences du patrimoine et le rôle que prennent les différentes solutions numériques qui modifient et interrogent les conditions de production et de diffusion des savoirs. La pédagogie que nous présentons, en lien étroit avec les activités d’un laboratoire de recherche, est ainsi fondée sur une démarche pluridisciplinaire abordée sous un aspect méthodologique, mais également pratique des technologies numériques au service du patrimoine architectural, de son analyse et son diagnostic. Innervé par un écosystème issu de la recherche autour de l’analyse de cas variés d’édifices patrimoniaux, les objectifs et modalités de cet enseignement permettent de sortir des cadres constitués de la formation numérique appliquée à l’architecture en allant au-delà des modèles, pratiques et environnements numériques pour la conception en architecture, urbanisme et paysage. Cet article est un article de réflexion pédagogique qui examine les convergences entre recherche, formation et pratique numérique au service du patrimoine architectural et urbain.