Exploring Research Characteristics and References Patterns of Scholarly Literature in Digital Humanities
Date Issued
2015
Date
2015
Author(s)
Hsueh, Bi-Shin
Abstract
This study demonstrates common characteristics found in important publications of digital humanities. We conducted the research based on bibliographies of DH articles. The study analyzed references and source articles listed in the following publications: Proceedings of International Conference of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities (DADH), Journal of Digital Humanities, Digital Humanities Quarterly, Digital Studies, Digital Medievalist and International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing from 2009 to 2013. DADH was held annually in Taiwan, and has become a big event in the Asian Pacific area. The other 5 international journals published important research outputs of digital humanities. The references and source articles of these research targets were investigated based on descriptive analysis and subject analysis of library practices on cataloguing. The methodology of content analysis was used to carry out the whole study. The results were analyzed from totally 8,686 references in 415 source articles. The results showed that digital humanities has transformed from the traditional humanities but added in more technology parts. From descriptive analysis in references, there were characteristics noticed as follows. (1) “Book” was the popular one in type of reference. However, UK and North America alike used resources on Internet often. (2) For number of author in the articles, many humanities authors tend to publish alone rather than to cooperate with others. Still, there are some organizations and projects supporting this kind of studies. (3) The subject-year figure depicted a long-low head and short-high tail curve in references published which demonstrated both characteristics of researches of humanities and applications of technology in Digital Humanities. For the aspects of subject analyses, Taiwan, UK, and North America had some features in common. History and data mining are two core issues in digital humanities, both for source articles and references. However, the information of temporal tags and spatial coverage were not well recognized in bibliographical records. From the number of domain, DH articles tend to have more than one subject discussed, showing the cross-discipline nature of DH. The study analyzed DH based on bibliographical records. From both source articles and references, the characteristics existed in the publications for digital humanities were also revealed, helping related scholars to know better about the field.
Subjects
Descriptive Analysis
Digital Humanities
Literary Warrant
Subject Analysis
Type
thesis
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