The first DH Day at FBK is over. It was nice to show the different activities carried out by our small group, and to see what’s going on in other DH centers.
Looking forward to DH Day 2015!
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Yet another reading suggestion
A must-have book to work with verbo-visual art, a nice gift from our project partners at MART and MUSEION museums.
Members of DH at FBK
Real Digital Humanists deserve an appropriate office sign. Here is ours.
Collaboration on data visualization
OK, we know…there is room for improvements in visualization within ALCIDE. For this reason we look forward to continuing our collaboration with @pciuccarelli and @densitydesign!
The first outcome of our collaboration with Density Design Lab is the visualization of our analysis on a subset of Alcide De Gasperi’s corpus developed by their students in Milan: http://www.densitydesign.org/ddfs13/degasperi/
ALCIDE: co-occurrences and polarity of words
Our group is using the 3D library to graphically visualize co-occurrence networks within ALCIDE. The idea is to combine co-occurrences together with information about polarity of words involved in the network.
For Kennedy’s and Nixon’s speeches we have used SentiWords, a resource provided by FBK containing 155,000 words associated with a sentiment score.
Can ALCIDE go mobile?
Giovanni is testing whether the content available on ALCIDE can be accessible through a mobile environment…
A useful feature to browse the platform in class with students.
ALCIDE: working on maps
Our main effort today (and not only today!) is on the ALCIDE (Analysis of Languange and Content In a Digital Environment) platform.
The goal of this project is to enhance historical research, in particular the analysis of political discourse, with state-of-the-art natural language processing technologies. In the early stage of the project, we focused on the writings and speeches of Alcide De Gasperi, one of the founders of the Italian Republic. More recently, we have moved to the automatic analysis of 1960 US presidential campaign, processing Kennedy’s and Nixon’s speeches.
A picture is worth a thousand words. Therefore, as an example of ALCIDE’s functionalities, we show below the plot of the different locations covered by the candidates during the presidential campaign. Can anyone explain why Nixon visited only few times the West Coast compared to Kennedy?
Based on the place of publication of De Gasperi’s public documents, ALCIDE can also show the places he visited more frequently during his activity. Enjoy!
Italy and Renaissance
Italian culture is rooted in Renaissance. And what would Digital Humanities be without Renaissance studies? An inspiring reading suggestion from @gabrielecatania, a friend of the DH group.
Working with a view…
Collaboration with ISIG
A key aspect of Digital Humanities is interdisciplinarity. In the past year, we have been collaborating with the colleagues of the Italian-German Historical Institute (ISIG) to build a digital infrastructure to analyze and navigate historical corpora. Projects like this can be tough. Luckily we have ISIG-sponsored chocolate to face hard research times.
