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Digital history is now a common course type in graduate and undergraduate curriculum. For example, the students in Digital History courses at the University of Hertfordshire have learned skills in digital mapping and Python programming, which makes it more accessible and easier to analyse large quantities of source data. One project that the ...
For processing textual data, digital humanities builds on a long and extensive history of digital edition, computational linguistics and natural language processing and developed an independent and highly specialized technology stack (largely cumulating in the specifications of the Text Encoding Initiative). This part of the field is sometimes ...
Aspects of digitality include nearly continuous contact with other people through cell phones, [1] near instantaneous access to information through the World Wide Web, third wave information storage (where any fragment in a text can be searched and used for categorization, such as through search engine Google), and communicating through weblogs and email.
In digital communications, for example, repeating hardware was able to amplify the digital signal and pass it on with no loss of information in the signal. Of equal importance to the revolution was the ability to easily move the digital information between media, and to access or distribute it remotely.
Digital heritage stewardship is a form of digital curation which is modeled after collaborative curation. Digital heritage stewardship means stepping away from typical curatorial practices (e.g. discovering, arranging, and sharing information, material, and/or content) in favor of practices which allow its stakeholders the opportunity to ...
In the Digital history course [1], academic year 2021-2022, held by professor Federico Mazzini, the students will create and improve Wikipedia articles about history. The course aims at giving students the basic notions of digital history, with a particular attention to the management of historical data online, the nature and problems of historical sources on the Web and historical ...
Wikipedia is an example of the production and maintenance of common goods by a contributor community in the form of encyclopedic knowledge that can be freely accessed by anyone without a central authority. [23] Tragedy of the commons in the Wiki-Commons is avoided by community control by individual authors within the Wikipedia community. [24]
Digital media, media stored as digital data Digital radio, which uses digital technology to transmit or receive; Digital television, television systems which broadcast using digital signals; Digital signal (electronics), signals formed from a discrete set of waveforms, rather than continuous ranges