麻省理工学院数字人文研究项目简介（附相关数据库）
本篇为数字人文特辑第十七辑
Faculty Fellowships
Each semester, the MIT Programs in Digital Humanities selectsone Faculty or Teaching Staff member of SHASS working on a project at theintersection of computing and the arts, humanities, or social sciences to jointhe DH Lab for a Faculty Fellowship. Thus begins a semester-long collaborationbetween the Faculty Fellow and the DH Lab in developing digital tools andcomputational methods to advance humanistic or social scientific inquiry orcreate new pedagogical resources.
Emerging Technologies for Language Learning|新兴语言学习技术
How mightlanguage learning technologies developed at a distance help shape pedagogy in ahybrid future? Approaches to this question are at the heart of the DH Lab’s currentproject led by our Spring 2021 Faculty Fellow, Takako Aikawa, SeniorLecturer in Japanese in Global Languages. Aikawa,the DH Lab, and its UROPs will learn to harness the power of computationallinguistics while seeking to understand the challenges of language pedagogyfrom both students’ and teachers’ perspectivesin order to create pedagogically valuable software. Their goal is to create aweb application for remote language teaching to be used at MIT and beyond.
https://digitalhumanities.mit.edu/project/emerging-technologies-for-language-learning/
This Was Paris in 1970｜这是1970年的巴黎
In 1970’s Paris,a photography competition, hosted to capture the city before rapid industrialchange altered it permanently, received 100,000 submissions. How can weleverage the perspective that computers bring to such a substantial visualdataset with such a quantity of images? How can they help to facilitate richhistorical and formal readings not just of a single photo, but of imagesnumbering in the tens of thousands? Catherine Clark, Associate Professorof History and French Studies, and the DH Lab are working together toenhance our understanding of the "This was Paris in 1970" digitalarchive and realize the potential of computer vision and machine learningtechniques in the study of photography.
https://digitalhumanities.mit.edu/project/this-was-paris-in-1970/
Democracy in Africa｜非洲民主化
Simulationscan empower students by providing hands-on engagement with concepts that areotherwise abstract or theoretical. Researchers and policy-makers can usesimulations to understand how models play out under a variety of startingconditions. EvanLieberman, Professor of Political Science, and DHwill work together to build simulations and games arounds topics affectingdemocratic development in Africa, which will be paired with Professor Lieberman’s popularonline course 17.571x “DemocraticDevelopment in Africa”.
https://digitalhumanities.mit.edu/project/democracy-in-africa/
The Reading Redux｜读书会再续前缘
If we cansimulate the experience of rereading a specific text, what useful informationcan we gather about how readers rethink, clarify, and nuance their thoughtsabout or their interpretations of that text? Associate Professor of Literature, Sandy Alexandre, and theDH Lab will collaborate on this project to investigate these and otherquestions around close reading and rereading texts, using computational toolsto gather and analyze the data.
https://digitalhumanities.mit.edu/project/reading-redux/
Tobacco Networks｜烟草网络
Led byMIT postdoctoral associate Stephan Risi, the Tobacco Networks project’s goalwas to produce a general network visualization of roughly 1.4 million documentsof data related to Tobacco researchers, lawyers, and marketing experts in a waythat visually elucidates the connections between significant people andcorporations in the industry. The anticipated scope of the Tobacco Networksproject is to provide a resource for those studying the strategies employed bytobacco companies throughout history to persuade consumers and mask theaddictive effects of the drug.
https://digitalhumanities.mit.edu/project/tobacco-networks/
SHASS Affiliated Projects
In Spring 2021, we launched the Affiliated Faculty-UROP Program(AFUP) to expand our support of digital humanities-based projects beyond the DHLab and across the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS).Learn more about the projects we've supported—and continue to support—below.
Linking London: Browsing the Bookshops in Paul’sCross Churchyard
连结伦敦：浏览保罗十字教堂院内的书店
Mary Erica Zimmer, Lecturer in Concourse, joined AFUP tocontinue work on her project Linking London: Browsing the Bookshops in Paul’s Cross Churchyard, which investigates how large-scaledatasets can be used to provide insight into individual items in rare bookscollections and archives—andvice versa. By balancing qualitative with quantitative methods, the projectencourages students to pursue object-based claims whiledemonstrating how "big metadata" can inform bibliographicscholarship.
https://digitalhumanities.mit.edu/project/linking-london-browsing-the-bookshops-in-paul-s-cross-churchyard/
Meta Popular Music Corpus Project｜Meta流行音乐语料库项目
Jinny Park,Affiliated Artist in Music and Theater Arts, will work on her Meta PopularMusic Corpus Project, which connects existing symbolic datasets of popularmusic into a searchable, web-based database designed for music analysts withouta programming background.
https://digitalhumanities.mit.edu/project/meta-popular-music-corpus-project/
Oud Corpora Analysis｜奥德文体分析
Thisproject seeks to create a digital corpus of a collection printed in the lateOttoman Empire (c. 1917) entitled Chants Turcs, thought to represent astage of printed Ottoman music in which notations for microtones were not yetindicated. Using computational analysis, this project aims to indicate wherethese non-notated microtones might possibly be located in the context of themaqamat (mode) used in each piece of music.
https://digitalhumanities.mit.edu/project/oud-corpora-analysis/
Self-Provisioning Cities: A Mapping Project｜自给自足的城市：一个绘图项目
Kate Brown,Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, joined AFUP to work onSelf-Provisioning Cities: A Mapping Project, which seeks to re-createself-provisioning food systems (i.e. chicken coops, gardens, pastures, etc.) oftwo African American neighborhoods of Washington, DC and Detroit, MI from 1900to 1950. The project will develop a spatial representation of what people inthese neighborhoods grew and ate, how much they produced, and how theseneighborhoods changed over time.
https://digitalhumanities.mit.edu/project/self-provisioning-cities-a-mapping-project/
Southeast Chicago Archive and StorytellingProject
Christine Walley, Professor ofAnthropology, joined AFUP to work on the Southeast Chicago Archive andStorytelling Project to create a website documenting the history of a steelmill community through stories of immigration, labor struggle, industrial jobloss, and the rise of community environmental activism in a heavily pollutedregion.
https://digitalhumanities.mit.edu/project/southeast-chicago-archive-and-storytelling-project/
Teaching Oriented Corpus Interface (TOCI)｜芝加哥东南区档案和故事会项目
TeachingOriented Corpus Interface (TOCI) addresses the limitations of existingstudent writing corpora for teachers not trained in corpus methods. Theinterface aims to make the publicly available corpus of British AcademicWritten English (BAWE) more accessible and useful for teachers using it incurriculum and instruction development.
https://digitalhumanities.mit.edu/project/teaching-oriented-corpus-interface-toci/
Text and Music Relations in 13th and 14th Century European Music
13和14世纪欧洲音乐中的文本和乐曲关系
Michael Cuthbert, Professor ofMusic, joined AFUP to continue work on his Text and Music Relations in 13th and14th Century European Music project, encoding and analyzing medieval Frenchmusic using computational means. The project has created a digital repositoryof motets, done significant work in discovering rhythmic structures of theworks and their text-musical relations, and created specialized analysisroutines able to separate layers of compositional activities by employingstate-of-the-art deep learning technologies.
https://digitalhumanities.mit.edu/project/text-and-music-relations-in-13th-and-14th-century-european-music/
Collaborations
Beyond our Faculty Fellowship and Grants programs, the DH Lab isalways looking for ways to offer support in the form of insight and guidance toany number of digital humanities projects across MIT. Below are just some ofthe projects we've been able to assist.
Computation History｜计算的历史
MITrecently announced the creation of the Schwarzman College of Computing to beginin 2019, affording the perfect opportunity as humanists to reflect on thehistory of computation at the Institute in the past. The project mixes archivalwork in the Institute's Archives and Special Collections withcoding skills (including old computer simulation) to create a digitalrepository of information about how computing was integrated into the historyof MIT. By not just focusing on principal figures such as Philip Morse but alsothe people who maintained the computers and facilitated their use, theComputation History project aims to give a deep and balanced insight into howcomputation has transformed the Institute, the humanities, and the world.
https://digitalhumanities.mit.edu/project/computation-history/
Gender/Novels｜社会性别与小说
The first project of the MIT Digital Humanities Labanalyzed the description of gender and gender roles across a large repertory ofnovels in the English language, primarily from the nineteenth century and earlytwentieth century. Our goal was to build computational tools that helped usunderstand how conceptions of gender were expressed and changed through distantreading of thousands of books. Our database involves over 4200 novels sourced from the Gutenberg project and gives us a comprehensive look at the views of authors ofthe time period.
https://digitalhumanities.mit.edu/project/gender-novels/
Updates
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