Crowd-sourcing for Digital Humanities
Crowd-sourcing data The Internet has enabled people to communicate and share more than ever. Some tools enable people to collaborate and contribute to one same project, even if they are not related at...
View ArticleMake the Web more semantic with Linked Data
The World Wide Web changes the way information is stored, processed and exchanged. Formally speaking, it is a distributed system that allows to access documents (or web-pages) written in special...
View ArticleUnited we stand: Crowdsourcing for Digital Humanities
With the rise of web sites like Kickstarter or Indiegogo for crowdsourcing, we learned that thanks to the Internet people from different parts of the globe can gather to create, fund or be a part of a...
View ArticleWhat are your sentiments, people?
Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy. – James Russel Lowell What other people think about a particular topic and their opinions...
View ArticleWhat motivates crowds for the crowdsourcing in the field of Digital Humanities?
In this post, we will focus on two important concepts: motivation and crowdsourcing. The latest is widely used in projects related to Digital Humanities because it enables us to perform a task using...
View ArticleMulti-Purpose Analysis of Reconstructed Social Networks
Social media can be seen as a close mirror of modern society. Centralized on big internet platforms they yield massive amounts of data each day. The amount of data is huge, the level of detail is...
View ArticleThe Potential of Crowdsourcing for Digital Humanities Research
Crowdsourcing is rather broadly defined term. First coined in 2006 as a portmanteau of the words “crowd” and “outsourcing”, it refers to “the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas or content by...
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One of the biggest challenges for human sciences nowadays is to deal with an ever increasing amount of resources. The size and variety in forms of world’s heritage make it really difficult to get an...
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