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Towards a history of e-ducation? Exploring the possibilities of digital humanities for the history of education KU Leuven
n the past few years, worries about decreasing jobs or even the possible disappearance of the history of education as a field of study have frequently surfaced. Hence, the question arises as to whether the history of education, as a field of study, has a future – or is it, as many authors have remarked, in danger? This article starts from the idea that our field of study is definitely not alone in its struggle: many branches of the humanities ...
Opening a Pandora's Box? An essay about the pitfalls of digital history and digital heritage Universiteit Antwerpen
The Specimen Data Refinery: A Canonical Workflow Framework and FAIR Digital Object Approach to Speeding up Digital Mobilisation of Natural History Collections Plantentuin Meise / Agentschap Plantentuin Meise
A key limiting factor in organising and using information from physical specimens curated in natural science collections is making that information computable, with institutional digitization tending to focus more on imaging the specimens themselves than on efficiently capturing computable data about them. Label data are traditionally manually transcribed today with high cost and low throughput, rendering such a task constrained for many ...
State of the field : digital history Universiteit Gent
Computing and the use of digital sources and resources is an everyday and essential practice in current academic scholarship. The present article gives a concise overview of approaches and methods within digital historical scholarship, focusing on the question 'How have the digital humanities evolved and what has that evolution brought to historical scholarship?' We begin by discussing techniques in which data are generated and machine ...
Slow Digital Art History in Action: Project Cornelia's Computational Approach to Seventeenth-century Flemish Creative Communities Universiteit Hasselt KU Leuven
This paper presents the rationale, genesis, and applications of Project Cornelia, an ongoing computational art history project developed by a cross-disciplinary team at the KU Leuven (University of Leuven). It shares practical perspectives acquired while conceptualizing and unfolding the project and discusses successes as well as challenges and setbacks. In doing so, this paper is a cautionary tale for art historians entering the digital arena. ...
The digital game controversy: reflections on a long history of media panics Universiteit Gent
An historical account of media panics with the presentation of a processual model of media panics. The case studies include examples from film and television history.