A Study on Trend of Knowledge Integration in Digital Humanities
Date Issued
2015
Date
2015
Author(s)
Cheng, Yun-Jen
Abstract
“Digital Humanity” is an emerging cross-discipline between computer science, social science, art and humanities. As a young discipline, the range and the research topic of digital humanity has been evolving for the last 30 years, but there hasn’t been many researches of the knowledge integration in digital humanities. In order to learn more about the trend of digital humanity, a bibliometric research was conducted using social analytical measures such as “diversity”, “cohesion” and “centrality” as main indicators of knowledge integration among different specialties in digital humanity. This research collected 2112 scholarly papers from journals, conference proceedings, and book as the target literatures of digital humanity. The result shows that: 1) Digital humanity is mainly comprised of computer science, social science, art and humanity, but there are other 20 disciplines included in the digital humanities. 2) The research topic of digital humanity is getting gradually consolidated since its early days, but it is still evenly distributed. 3) The knowledge network shows that the researches in digital humanity sharing a common outlook of the discipline, but humanity has a very broad range, which makes the knowledge sharing between the sub-disciplines in the digital humanity appears infrequently, relative to knowledge sharing inside the sub-disciplines appears frequently. 4) The co-author network shows that there are less collaboration between different sub-disciplines and countries. 5) The diversity of digital humanity remains high, and the coherence of digital humanity is gradually increasing through, remain largely fragmented compared to other fields. 6) In the knowledge network of digital humanity, there are important (which has high betweenness centrality) authors and publish sources in each country or sub-discipline, that played important role of holding the network together.
Subjects
Digital humanity
Cross-discipline research
Diversity
Coherence
Centrality
Type
thesis
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