Aus unseren Neuerwerbungen – Digital Humanities 2025.3

Linked Data for Dig­i­tal Human­i­ties
Linked Data for Dig­i­tal Human­i­ties pro­vides insights into how dig­i­tal tech­nolo­gies can enrich and diver­si­fy human­i­ties schol­ar­ship and make it pio­neer­ing in the dig­i­tal age.
Writ­ten in non-spe­cial­ist lan­guage, the book illus­trates how infor­ma­tion is cap­tured, pub­lished, rep­re­sent­ed, accessed, and inter­pret­ed using com­pu­ta­tion­al sys­tems and, in doing so, shows how tech­nolo­gies active­ly shape the way we under­stand what we encounter. Focus­ing as it does on under­ly­ing Web archi­tec­ture and projects acces­si­ble online, the book has an inher­ent­ly inter­na­tion­al focus. The inter­dis­ci­pli­nary case study exam­ples include bib­li­o­graph­ic data from works pub­lished in Eng­land between 1470 and 1700; lit­er­a­ture from ancient Iraq; jazz per­for­mances, pre­dom­i­nant­ly from the USA in the 1930s; and even reach as far as an alien, fic­tion­al future. Whilst these case study exam­ples span vast spa­tio-tem­po­ral dis­tances, they all share a com­mon thread in the use of the Linked Data infor­ma­tion pub­li­ca­tion par­a­digm. Using exist­ing com­put­er sci­ence meth­ods, as well as process­es such as ontol­ogy devel­op­ment and data­base design, the book also includes reflec­tions on prac­ti­cal con­sid­er­a­tions and offers advice about how to take insti­tu­tion­al poli­cies, socio-cul­tur­al sen­si­tiv­i­ties, and eco­nom­ic mod­els into con­sid­er­a­tion when imple­ment­ing Linked Data projects.
Linked Data for Dig­i­tal Human­i­ties dis­cuss­es tech­no­log­i­cal issues in the con­text of Human­i­ties schol­ar­ship, bridg­ing dis­ci­plines and enabling informed con­ver­sa­tions across dis­ci­pli­nary bound­aries. It will be of inter­est to human­i­ties schol­ars, com­put­er and data sci­en­tists, and library and infor­ma­tion sci­en­tists.
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Impact­ful data visu­al­iza­tion: hide and seek with graphs
Water, water, every­where, nor any drop to drink,
Data, data, every­where, no time to stop and think!
There is scarce­ly a role that does not require us to under­stand, analyse and present data. Charts, graphs and maps are every­where. How­ev­er, many of these data visu­als leave the view­er bewil­dered, con­fused or (even worse) with an incor­rect under­stand­ing of the data. In con­trast, if designed well, data visu­al­iza­tions help us make sense of data and com­mu­ni­cate our insights bet­ter.
Bring­ing her clear class­room-teach­ing style, which has helped hun­dreds of data wran­glers, to this book, the author walks you through the myr­i­ad ways that graphs can mis­lead, help­ing to spot visu­al­iza­tion traps and pre­vent mis­in­ter­pre­ta­tions. She illus­trates core design prin­ci­ples for cre­at­ing truth­ful and effec­tive data visu­al­iza­tions, assist­ing you to mas­ter the art and sci­ence behind cre­at­ing impact­ful and accu­rate graphs. Packed with exam­ples to clear­ly explain the dos and don’ts of data visu­al­iza­tion and backed by empir­i­cal research, this book will trans­form the way you cre­ate and analyse graphs and charts.
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