Modeling Between Digital and Humanities: Thinking in Practice

The project, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, dealt with modeling as a creative thought process and as a research method.

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Link

https://modellingDH.eu

Runtime

2016–2018

project participants

Principal investigators: Arianna Ciula (King’s Digital Lab, KCL), Øyvind Eide (University of Passau, now University of Cologne), Cristina Marras (CNR-ILIESI, Rome), Patrick Sahle (University of Cologne, now University of Wuppertal). Other employees: Christopher Pak, Zoe Schubert, Michela Tardella, Nils Geißler, Elli Reuhl, Julia Sorouri.

Funding

Funded by the Volkswagen Foundation as part of the initiative Original – isn’t it? New Options for the Humanities and Cultural Studies.

Description

The program Original – isn’t it? New Options for the Humanities and Cultural Studies Funded by the Volkswagen Foundation’s program Original – isn’t it? New Options for the Humanities and Cultural Studies this project dealt with modeling as a creative thought process and as a research method. In this context, event and text models were examined in case studies. In an interdisciplinary workshop in 2017, the importance of models and modeling in various fields of the humanities was discussed. The results of the workshop were published in Supplement 31 of the journal Historical Social Research (see Publications).

Publications

Historical Social Research, Suppl. 31 (2018), “Models and Modeling between Digital and Humanities – A Multidisciplinary Perspective,” eds. by Arianna Ciula, Øyvind Eide, Cristina Marras and Patrick Sahle, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-62883-7.

Ciula, Arianna / Eide, Øyvind (2017). “Modeling in Digital Humanities: Signs in Context.” In: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 32 / Suppl. 1, i33–i46. DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqw045.

Ciula, Arianna / Marras, Cristina (2016). “Circling around Texts and Language: Towards ‘Pragmatic Modeling’ in Digital Humanities.” In: Digital Humanities Quarterly 10/3, http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/10/3/000258/000258.html.

For further publications, see https://modellingdh.eu/index.php/resources-2/publications/.

Picture credits

Image by Armand Khoury on Unsplash, edited.