Concepts in Motion is hosting a series of online seminars on data formats, tools, and best practices for working with data relevant to the history of ideas. In particular, in this series we will have experts discussing the managing of authority records, identifiers for persons, timelines, and works, as well as infrastructures on which to clean and enrich these data.
Upcoming DaDriH Seminars:
April 11th, 2024
15:00 PM (CEST)
90 Minutes
Speakers: Eugenio Petrovich & Sander Verhaegh
Title: EDHIPHY: Enriching Data for the History of Philosophy through Mention Indexing
EDHIPHY (Enriched Data for the HIstory of PHilosophY) is a relational database developed in the context of the ERC project “Exiled Empiricists” for studying the history of Anglo-American philosophy in the twentieth century with quantitative methods. EDHIPHY combines data from several sources (JSTOR, WikiData, ProQuest, and manually collected datasets) and enriches them via mention extraction, a technique that identifies and extracts mention of philosophers from the full-text of journal articles and links them to specific philosophers. EDHIPHY in its current version includes circa 23.000 articles published in 12 philosophy journals between 1890 and 1979, from which >1mln mentions to circa 10.000 philosophers were extracted. Precision estimates of mention linking indicate that 82-91% of the mentions in EDHIPHY are linked to the philosopher that is actually mentioned in the text. In addition to mention links, EDHIPHY includes also gender, birth year, PhD dissertation metadata, and career data for several of the philosophers covered. It thus enables historians of philosophy to produce multi-dimensional quantitative analyses of Anglo-American philosophy over a century. In this talk, Eugenio and Sander present EDHIPHY and the technique of mention extraction and linking they developed; then, they will offer a short demonstration of EDHIPHY’s potential for historical studies, with a case study on the impact on American philosophy of the migration of European intellectuals in the United States between 1930 and 1960.
Zoom Link:
https://uva-live.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pdeypqDMqGdSW59QPXLTskI2ejle0ByyY
Previous DaDriH Seminars:
October 27, 2023
14:00 PM (CEST)
90 Minutes
Speaker: Chiara Latronico
Title: Lessons and recommendations in data practices from the Golden Agents project
Chiara Latronico (Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld & Geluid) will highlight her experience in working with bibliographic data in the Golden Agents project. In this seminar, she will discuss with us linked data standards, models, and tools, with special attention to RDF. Bring your questions to the seminar for a live Q&A session.
November 7th, 2023
15:00 PM (CET)
90 Minutes
Speaker: Nicola Ruschena
Title: Turin Enhanced Philosophy Tree
Nicola Ruschena (University of Turin) is working on his PhD project at the North-Western Italian Philosophy Consortium (FINO). This project aligns with the ‘Turin Enhanced Philosophy Tree’ (TEPT) project at the University of Turin. TEPT seeks to develop shareable resources for the reconstruction of socio-institutional historical networks (such as supervisor-student genealogies). Nicola will present his project and will share with us his progress in developing a shareable research infrastructure for data collection and analysis, designed for historians of philosophy and science.
Speaker: Veruska Carretta Zamborlini
Title: Ontologies for Philosophers: Lessons and Recommendations
Veruska Carretta Zamborlini (Department of Computer Science, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil) is an ontology specialist and Semantic Web expert. Veruska has worked on the Golden Agents project together with last seminar’s speaker Chiara Latronico. In this seminar, she will share with us valuable lessons learned in this project, and discuss with us the application of ontologies in research in (the history of) philosophy.
Bring your questions to the seminar for a live Q&A session with both speakers.
November 21st, 2023
15:00 PM (CET)
90 Minutes
Speakers: Martin Korenjak & Stefan Zathammer
Title: NOSCEMUS
Martin Korenjak & Stefan Zathammer (University of Innsbruck) talk about the realization of NOSCEMUS, a dataset encompassing 993 Latin scientific works written by 854 authors. Our speakers will share technical details about the development of NOSCEMUS, and provide insight into its conceptualization. Bring your questions to the seminar for a live Q&A session.
December 7, 2024
15:00 PM (EST)
90 Minutes
Speaker: Leon van Wissen
Title: Lessons and recommendations: LOD and Cultural Heritage Data
Leon van Wissen (Universiteit van Amsterdam/DSC) is a data engineer working with cultural heritage data in CREATE and GLOBALISE, and previously in the Golden Agents project. In this session Leon will share experiences and best practices relevant to working with Linked Open Data and the implementation of ontologies. Bring your questions to the seminar for a live Q&A session.
Februari 15th, 2024
15:00 PM (CET)
90 Minutes
Speakers: Daniele Morrone
Title: TheSu XML
Daniele Morrone (KU Leuven) presents his work on TheSu XML, an XML annotation schema designed for digitally analyzing, indexing, and mapping ideas and their contexts of expression in various sources. TheSu (‘Thesis Support’) XML is tailored to aid research in the history of ideas, philosophy, science, and technology.
Zoom Link:
https://uva-live.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvdequpzstHdVS8EOCOxRIgretBkI2Hl26
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