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DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly
2024 18.3
Articles
Bibliographic Translation Data: Invisibility, Research Challenges, Institutional
and Editorial Practices
Lisa Teichmann, Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanités numériques (CRIHN) at Université de Montréal; Karolina Roman, McGill University
Abstract
[en]
In this article, we discuss the main challenges in finding and extracting translation data from national library
catalogues and the literary press and propose solutions for researchers to access and analyze bibliographic data
for translations. To illustrate these issues, we present two case studies: the first being dedicated to translation
invisibility in the literary press, i.e., specialized and general literary journals and magazines, discussing
overall trends in the Canadian literary press and giving specific examples from the Quill
& Quire and the Montreal Review of Books. The second deals with the
institutional practices of collecting and cataloguing translations according to metadata standards at three
national libraries: the German National Library (DNB), the Austrian National Library (ÖNB), and the Bibliothèque et
Archive nationales du Québec (BAnQ). By doing so, we problematize how the cataloguing, collecting, and reviewing of
translated material can be viewed as a systemic issue, highlighting the parallels between these different types of
practices. We hope to broaden the understanding of translation invisibility by looking at how institutional,
cultural, and editorial practices inform the cataloguing, collecting, reviewing, and publishing of
translations.
Manuscript Catalogues as Data for Research: From Provenance to Data Decolonisation
Huw Jones, Cambridge University Library; Cambridge Digital Humanities; Yasmin Faghihi, Cambridge University Library; Cambridge Digital Humanities
Abstract
[en]
This paper discusses a recent project which applied computational methods to catalogue data in an attempt to generate new information on the
provenance of Islamicate manuscripts in UK repositories. Using a subset of records taken from the Fihrist Union
Catalogue as a dataset, we analysed and grouped together manuscript descriptions which shared selected physical features, then examined
the occurrence of records with secure provenance within those groups to see if information on the place of origin could be extrapolated across
them. While we gained useful information regarding the provenance of manuscripts, the chief conclusion of the project was that catalogue data,
in its current state, poses serious challenges for quantitative analysis. This is partly due to the various purposes for which data has
traditionally been collected (in contexts where codicological descriptions had a different purpose) and partly due to inconsistencies in the
dataset. In our conclusion we put forward strategies for working with inconsistent data, make suggestions for changes to cataloguing practices to
answer the requirements of digital methods, and propose new research questions addressing the history of catalogues and cataloguing practices
which came into focus during the project. We also make a case for the potential of digital methods to enable new approaches to decolonisation,
focusing on data modelling, data provenance, and accessibility.
Case Studies
libEscansión: A Recursive Precedence Approach to
Metrical Scansion
Fernando Sanz-Lázaro, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Abstract
[en]
In recent years, there has been impressive progress in the automatic analysis of
Spanish verse. However, despite the excellent results of previous attempts,
there is still room for improvement, as this article shows. It presents
libEscansión, a new automatic scansion tool that, although initially designed
for analysing the verses of plays, outperforms all its predecessors in the
scansion of fixed-meter poetry. The library uses two novel approaches to achieve
this result: linguistically, it uses Castilian syllabification instead of the
more diphthong-prone American syllabic division. It uses a dedicated module that
can also be run independently. Methodologically, the library resolves metrical
ambiguities using a perceptibility-based recursive prioritisation system. The
combination of both allows libEscansión to perform a scansion 0.78% more
accurately than the best of its peers against a gold standard corpus, reaching
an accuracy of 97.01% (99.50% discarding non-erroneous disagreements).
Reviews
The Model is the Message: Modelling and the Future of Humanities Scholarship
Amanda Furiasse, Nova Southeastern University
Abstract
[en]
The increasing prevalence of computer models within humanities research has raised a number of challenges for humanities scholars. Chief
among them are the ways in which computational modelling fundamentally transforms the conventional methodologies and epistemological
frameworks that have long defined research within the humanities. In Modelling Between Digital and Humanities:
Thinking in Practice (2023), Arianna Ciula, Øyvind Eide, Cristina Marras, and
Patrick Sahle evaluate the impact of this paradigm shift on humanities scholarship and varying strategies for addressing
the challenges that it presents. In particular, the authors take up the idea of formulating a new digital humanities mode of thinking
that can enable the humanities to adapt and thrive in the digital age while retaining their core values.
Author Biographies
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Published by: The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations and The Association for Computers and the Humanities
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DHQ has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Comments: dhqinfo@digitalhumanities.org
Published by: The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations and The Association for Computers and the Humanities
Affiliated with: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities
DHQ has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Copyright © 2005 -
Unless otherwise noted, the DHQ web site and all DHQ published content are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Individual articles may carry a more permissive license, as described in the footer for the individual article, and in the article’s metadata.
