The transmission of text in poetic form is a quasi-universal aspect in the oral tradition of every culture. The study of the poetic features of text, especially their rhythmic structure when forming verses, pertains to the different traditions, whose scholars establishe...

This paper considers best practices for using photogrammetry to document contexts and remains during archaeological fieldwork.

This short piece reviews Michael Kater's recent overview of culture in Nazi Germany, taking issue both with its core scholarly contentions and its problematic use of language.

Powerpoint presentation for the MLA2020 collaborative roundtable "Digital Humanities in Japan and Korea: Approaches and Challenges," organized by the LLC Korean and LLC Japanese since 1900 Forums. This brief introduction to "Re-Envisioning Japan: Japan as Destination in...

Poster

We present an automatic, learned model for the extraction of poetry from digitally scanned books. This poster highlights our recent work on poetry identification from Internet Archive books and the public resources (code, data and models) that exist as a result. We hope...

The UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons will finally come into force after the 50th country (Honduras) ratified it over the weekend. The treaty will make the development, testing, stockpiling and use of nuclear weapons illegal for those countries that have s...

This presentation is for a lightning talk of DH2020. Our final research goal is to restore Edo’s historical city conditions (Tokyo’s former name before the late 19th century) using historical materials. In particular, we focus on non-textual materials. For textual mater...

This set of slides presenting the case for and providing an introduction to the Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship (LINCS) initiative, a Canadian venture to produce a robust infrastructure for the creation, dissemination, and use of Linked Open Dat...

The year 2018 witnessed a significant growth of research groups and laboratories dedicated to Digital Humanities in Brazil, however, without producing for this international community. Nowadays, the Digital Humanities are beginning to gain greater public interest in Bra...