Im Rahmen des DH-Kolloquiums an der BBAW möchten wir Sie herzlich zum nächsten Termin am Freitag, den 2. November 2018, 17 Uhr s.t. bis 19 Uhr (Konferenzraum 1), einladen:

Elli Bleeker (Research and Development – Humanities Cluster, Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences)
„Addressing Ancient Promises: Text Modelling and Alexandria“

The computer has come to play a transformative role in the ways we model, store, process and study text. Nevertheless, we cannot yet claim to have realised the promises of the digital medium: the organisation and dissemination of scholarly knowledge through the exchange, reuse and enrichment of data sets. Despite the acclaimed interdisciplinary nature of digital humanities, current digital research takes place in a closed environment and rarely surpasses the traditional boundaries of a field. Furthermore, it is worthwhile to continue questioning the models we use and whether they are actually suitable for our scholarly needs. There’s a risk that the affordances and limitations of a prevailing model may blind us to aspects it doesn’t support.

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Quelle: https://dhd-blog.org/?p=10663