Over the last few years, attempting to ease myself into the field of “digital humanities,” I have attended a few related conferences. The largest was DH2019 in Utrecht, which I frankly found inspiring. The conference kicked off for me a year that I heavily devoted to learning DH related skills, such as network graphing and Python programming. With collaborators, I submitted two proposals to present at DH2020, which was to be in Ottawa this year. Both were accepted. And then, of course, the conference was shut down.
I opted not to “present” digitally in the virtual version of the conference (the format was a bit unusual and intriguing, but I just couldn’t find the energy to participate). The abstracts of the two papers, however, were accepted and are now available.
The first is on my ongoing project, “Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine“. While we have produced several papers already about various aspects of this project, this presentation, with Elli Mylonas, was to focus on the way use Linked Open Data (LOD). The abstract can be found here, although as of now the second image appears not to be displaying properly.
The second project, with Michael Sperling, is called “The Rabbinic Network.” We have developed a visualization and quantitative analysis of the rabbinic citation network in the Babylonian Talmud. We hope to soon have further news about publications relating to this project and a website and Github site devoted to it. For now, the abstract can be seen here.