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A Map for Big Data Research in Digital Humanities

Kaplan, Frédéric  
2015
Frontiers in Digital Humanities

This article is an attempt to represent Big Data research in digital humanities as a structured research field. A division in three concentric areas of study is presented. Challenges in the first circle – focusing on the processing and interpretations of large cultural datasets – can be organized linearly following the data processing pipeline. Challenges in the second circle – concerning digital culture at large – can be structured around the different relations linking massive datasets, large communities, collective discourses, global actors, and the software medium. Challenges in the third circle – dealing with the experience of big data – can be described within a continuous space of possible interfaces organized around three poles: immersion, abstraction, and language. By identifying research challenges in all these domains, the article illustrates how this initial cartography could be helpful to organize the exploration of the various dimensions of Big Data Digital Humanities research.

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research article
DOI
10.3389/fdigh.2015.00001
Author(s)
Kaplan, Frédéric  
Date Issued

2015

Published in
Frontiers in Digital Humanities
Volume

2

Issue

1

Start page

1

Subjects

Digital Humanities

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Big data

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map

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small data

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structuring tensions

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

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May 7, 2015
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/113749
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