bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Ophthalmologic symptoms as the first manifestation of primary complete empty sella syndrome- case report
Authors: Łaszczych Dariusz , Czernicka Aleksandra Janina , Szymczak Bartłomiej , Borowczak Jędrzej
Published: October 2024

Background: Empty sella syndrome (ESS) is a rare condition associated with loss of pituitary gland volume. ESS has a heterogeneous clinical manifestation including endocrine, neurological, and visual deficits. The most common symptoms include chronic headaches and hormonal disturbances associated with hypopituitarism.Aim of the study: To emphasize the role of ophthalmologists in the initial management of intracranial hypertension and the significance of a multidisciplinary approach in the management of ESS.Case report: Primary complete ESS was reported in a 32-year-old male presenting nonspecific ophthalmologic symptoms including ophthalmalgia and subjective worsening of the visual acuity. The ophthalmological exam revealed bilateral optic disk elevation. The subsequent MRI identified a suprasellar cistern invaginating within sella turcica with resulting pituitary gland flattening. A complete empty sella syndrome was confirmed. In addition, idiopathic intracranial hypertension was suspected. The patient was proposed hospitalization in the neurology department for additional testing however, he refused due to personal reasons.Conclusions: To date, only a few papers reported ESS with preliminary ophthalmological symptoms. All patients with nonspecific eye symptoms should have a complex ophthalmological examination. Bilateral optic disk elevation requires urgent imaging of the brain and orbits, and the golden-standard approach remains MRI. During the diagnostic process, the secondary causes of intracranial hypertension including tumor, bleeding, abscess, hydrocephalus, or venous sinus thrombosis must be excluded. Due to the heterogeneous clinical course of ESS, patients require multidisciplinary management and follow-up by endocrinologists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, and ophthalmologists.
La vida digna frente al derecho de la vida tutelado por la Constitución. Análisis de la sentencia 67-23-IN/24
Authors: Naula-Narváez Adriana Nube , Calva-Calopiña Milton Eduardo , Morales-Castro Samuel
Published: October 2024

El caso de Paola Roldán (+) abrió el debate a nivel de Ecuador sobre el derecho a morir dignamente y la despenalización de la eutanasia. Este hecho fue tratado por la Corte Constitucional en la sentencia 67-23-IN/24, la cual determina que la eutanasia no es punible al ser practicada por un médico que ejerce este acto previamente solicitado por una persona en condiciones específicas, modificando así el artículo 144 del COIP, el cual describe la figura del homicidio. Desde un enfoque Constitucional, el objetivo de este artículo fue analizar el derecho a la muerte digna, frente al derecho a la vida tutelado en la Constitución. Se realizó un análisis de enfoque cualitativo, desde revisión de la literatura, análisis de la sentencia, del marco jurídico y doctrinario, con objeto de abordar diferentes perspectivas en torno al tema. Los resultados dejan ver que este debate ha surgido, a nivel de otras naciones, por la misma motivación de personas quienes han padecido (o padecen) enfermedades catastróficas y han solicitado se les permita morir con dignidad. Estas realidades son analizadas por la Corte, misma que reconoce el derecho a la vida digna y a decidir sobre su muerte cuando se ha privado de su libre desarrollo de la personalidad. No se reconoce el derecho a la muerte digna, pero este se sobreentiende al reconocerse como consecuencia del ejercicio del derecho a la vida digna y al libre desarrollo de la personalidad en condiciones de extremo sufrimiento.
O PAPEL DA COENZIMA Q-10 NA SAÚDE MENTAL: IMPACTOS DO SUPLEMENTO NO BEM-ESTAR PSICOLÓGICO E EMOCIONAL
Authors: Silva Fâmila Cândida Mendonça da , Silva Jessica Emanuelly Duenos da , Lima Lillian Tavares de , Figueiredo Ronildo Oliveira
Published: October 2024

A Coenzima Q-10 (CoQ10) ou ubiquinona é um composto antioxidante lipossolúvel essencial para o funcionamento das mitocôndrias, com importância bioenergética, a CoQ10 tem potencial antioxidante significativo, no contexto da saúde mental. A suplementação com CoQ10 tem se mostrado uma alternativa promissora, para complementar-se aos tratamentos convencionais, melhorando o bem-estar psicológico e emocional dos pacientes. Desta forma, o estudo objetiva-se investigar o papel da coenzima q-10 na saúde mental, analisando os impactos do suplemento no bem-estar psicológico e emocional, com o intuito de avaliar a sua eficácia terapêutica. Para tanto, procede-se a uma revisão bibliográfica, com método descritivo-qualitativo. Com o levantamento de dados partindo de artigos, sites e livros encontrados nas bases indexadoras: Cochrane Library, Google Scholar, PublicMedline (PubMed), e BVS (Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde), realizada pelo uso dos seguintes descritores: “coenzima q-10”; “saúde mental”; “suplemento”; “acompanhamento nutricionista”; publicados em portugues e inglês, na faixa temporal entre 2019 a 2024. Após a execução dos critérios de inclusão, resultou-se na seleção de 16 pesquisas para  análise  qualitativa.  Assim,  averigou-se que a CoQ10 tem grande importância  na manutenção da saúde mental, atuando na geração de energia dos neurônios e defesa contra o estresse oxidativo, contribuindo no funcionamento cerebral, reduzindo danos provocados pelos radicais livres, que costumam estar presentes nos casos de distúrbios psicológicos, e em uma gama diversificada de patologias.
PENGEMBANGAN MEDIA MAZE GAME TERHADAP PENINGKATAN MOTIVASI BELAJAR SISWA KELAS X DI MA DARUL ULUM PALANGKA RAYA
Authors: Khasanah Kusnia Nikmatul , Adyaputri Elvira , Khairi Khairi , Azis Abdul
Published: October 2024

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengembangkan media pembelajaran berbasis maze game untuk meningkatkan motivasi belajar siswa kelas 10 di MA Darul Ulum Palangka Raya dalam mata pelajaran Sejarah Kebudayaan Islam (SKI). Peneliti menerapkan metode Research and Development (R&D) dengan menggunakan model 4D yang mencakup tahap Define, Design, Development, dan Disseminate. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa maze game berbasis platform Wordwall efektif meningkatkan motivasi belajar siswa. Media ini setelah di rekapitulasi persentase kevalidan sebesar 81,25% maka dinilai sangat layak oleh ahli materi dan media, serta mampu membuat pembelajaran lebih interaktif, menarik, dan mudah diakses. Penelitian ini juga menggarisbawahi pentingnya penggunaan teknologi dalam proses pembelajaran guna memenuhi kebutuhan dan karakteristik siswa.
DINAMIKA GAYA KOMUNIKASI PRESENTER PADANG TV DALAM PROGRAM TALKSHOW SUMBAR RANCAK BANA
Authors: Putri Shafira Maulani , Januar Januar
Published: October 2024

Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui dinamika gaya komunikasi seorang presenter dalam talkshow Sumbar Rancak Bana di Padang TV, dimana presenter berhadapan langsung dengan narasumber. Presenter hendaknya selalu mengguanakan gaya komunikasi yang benar, menyampaikan pesan dengan cara yang jelas bagi penerimanya. Penelitian ini menggunakan informan kunci seperti presenter dan informan pendukung seperti produser program, manager produksi, dan pemirsa Padang TV. Pengumpulan data melaui observasi, wawancara dan dokumentasi. Penelitian ini menggunakan triangulasi data untuk memvalidasi data. Hasil dari penelitian menunjukan bahwa ada tiga gaya komunikasi berbeda yang dapat ditemukan pada presenter Padang TV yaitu, the equalitarian style, the strukturing style dan the relinguishing style. Berdasarkan penelitian ini, presenter menggunakan gaya equalitarian style yang ditandai dengan komunikasi dua arah antara dirinya dan narasumber tanpa membedakan posisi. Kedua, presenter menggunakan gaya the strukturing style yang ditandai dengan presenter melaksanakan perintah dari atasan sesuai dengan prosedur yang ada. Dan terakhir gaya the relinguishing style, presenter bersedia menerima pendapat, ide, dan gagasan dari orang lain. Hal ini agar presenter tidak mendominasi percakapan dibanding narasumber.
Reassembling the Republic of Letters – A Linked Data Approach
Authors: Tuominen Jouni , Mäkelä Eetu , Hyvönen Eero , Bosse Arno , Lewis Miranda , Hotson Howard
Published: October 2024

Between 1500 and 1800, a revolution in postal communication allowed ordinary men and women to scatter letters across and beyond Europe. This exchange helped knit together what contemporaries called the respublica litteraria, or Republic of Letters, a knowledge-based civil society, crucial to that era’s intellectual breakthroughs, and formative of many modern European values and institutions. To enable effective Digital Humanities research on the epistolary data distributed in different countries and collections, metadata about the letters have been aggregated, harmonised, and provided for the research community through the Early Modern Letters Online (EMLO) catalogue. This paper discusses the idea and benefits of using Linked Data as the basis for a potential future framework for EMLO, and presents our experiences with a first demonstrator implementation of such a system.
Annotation of subtitle paraphrases using a new web tool
Authors: Aulamo Mikko , Creutz Mathias , Sjöblom Eetu
Published: October 2024

This paper analyzes the manual annotation effort carried out to produce Opusparcus, the Open Subtitles Paraphrase Corpus for six European languages. Within the scope of the project, a new web-based annotation tool was created. We discuss the design choices behind the tool as well as the setup of the annotation task. We also evaluate the annotations obtained. Two independent annotators needed to decide to what extent two sentences approximately meant the same thing. The sentences originate from subtitles from movies and TV shows, which constitutes an interesting genre of mostly colloquial language. Inter-annotator agreement was found to be on par with a well-known previous paraphrase resource from the news domain, the Microsoft Research Paraphrase Corpus (MSRPC). Our annotation tool is open source. The tool can be used for closed projects with restricted access and controlled user authentification as well as open crowdsourced projects, in which anyone can participate and user identification takes place based on IP addresses.
Managing Uncertainties
Authors: Bergenmar Jenny
Published: October 2024

The increased digital accessibility of cultural heritage materials has brought to the fore the need to make these resources searchable and useful, for example by engaging the public in transcription and data tagging. However, engaging the public in the collection of cultural heritage material is more uncommon. This paper presents the project Remembering Selma Lagerlöf, a crowd sourcing initiative to collect the letters Lagerlöf sent to her audience and publish them in a digital exhibition, along with letters from the public to Lagerlöf. The methodological challenges connected with crowdsourcing projects that involve the collection of cultural heritage material are discussed. This paper particularly focuses on issues concerning public engagement and the relation between researchers and contributors, as well as on issues concerning the material, such as contextualization and ethical considerations. The letters form a microhistory of the individuals who, for various reasons, contacted Lagerlöf; the contributors submitting the letters have also proven to be an important source of factual information about the context of the letters. The letters to Lagerlöf from the public can be described as a passively stored memory, which is included in the archive of memory, but not in the canon of public knowledge. However, in many cases, these letters may be actively remembered within the families they concern, who preserve the personal contexts of the letters and consider them relevant.
Automatic Dating of Medieval Charters from Denmark
Authors: Boldsen Sidsel , Paggio Patrizia
Published: October 2024

Dating of medieval text sources is a central task common to the field of manuscript studies. It is a difficult process requiring expert philological and historical knowledge. We investigate the issue of automatic dating of a collection of about 300 charters from medieval Denmark, in particular how n-gram models based on different transcription levels of the charters can be used to assign the manuscripts to a specific temporal interval. We frame the problem as a classification task by dividing the period into bins of 50 years and using these as classes in a supervised learning setting to develop SVM classifiers. We show that the more detailed facsimile transcription, which captures palaeographic characteristics of a text, provides better results than the diplomatic level, where such distinctions are normalised. Furthermore, both character and word n-grams show promising results, the highest accuracy reaching 74.96 %. This level of classification accuracy corresponds to being able to date almost 75 % of the charters with a 25-year error margin, which philologists use as a standard of the precision with which medieval texts can be dated manually.
Negative to That of Others, But Negligent of One’s Own?
Authors: Brodén Daniel
Published: October 2024

In 2015–2016 the Centre for Critical Heritage Studies at the University of Gothenburg conducted an interdisciplinary pilot project in collaboration with the SOM-institute. The aim was to demonstrate the usefulness of combining an analysis rooted in the field of critical heritage studies with statistics. The study was based on a critical discussion of the concept of cultural heritage and the data was collected from the nationwide SOM-surveys.
The paper highlights some patterns in the SOM data from 2015 on sociodemographic and attitude differences in activities traditionally associated with national cultural heritage instititions: 1) women are more involved in activities than men; 2) besides gender, class and education are also important variables in this context. 3) The most important finding in this paper is that people with a negative attitude towards immigration to a lesser degree participate in activities that are traditionally associated with their ‘own’ national cultural heritage.
(Re)Branching Narrativity
Authors: Kizilgunesler Ilgin
Published: October 2024

Twitch, as an online platform for gamers, has been analyzed in terms of its commercial benefits for the increase of game sales and its role in bringing fame to streamers. By focusing on Twitch’s interactive capacity, this paper compares this platform to narrative games, playable stories, and mobile narratives in terms of the role of the user(s) and their virtual space experience. Drawing on theories by Marie-Laure Ryan and Rita Raley, the paper argues that Twitch assigns authorial roles to the users (i.e., the streamers and the subscribers), who branch the existing narrative of the game by determining the path of the setting collectively. By doing so, the paper proposes Twitch as a space, which extends the immersion that is discussed around multiple forms of interactive narrativity.
Open, Extended, Closed or Hidden Data of Cultural Heritage
Authors: Pääkkönen Tuula , Rautiainen Juha , Ryynänen Toni , Uusitalo Eeva
Published: October 2024

The National Library of Finland (NLF) agreed on an “Open National Library” policy in 2016[1]. In the policy there are eight principles, which are divided into accessibility, openness in actions and collaboration. Accessibility in the NLF means that access to the material needs to exist both for the metadata and the content, while respecting the rights of the rights holders. Openness in operations means that our actions and decision models are transparent and clear, and that the materials are accessible to the researchers and other users. These are one way in which the NLF can implement the findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable (FAIR) data principles [2] themes in practise.
The purpose of this paper is to view the way in which the policy has impacted our work and how findability and accessibility have been implemented in particular from the aspects of open, extended, closed and hidden data themes. In addition, our aim is to specify the characteristics of existing and potential forms of data produced by the NLF from the research and development perspectives. A continuous challenge is the availability of the digital resources – gaining access to the digitised material for both researchers and the general public, since there are also constant requests for access to newer materials outside the legal deposit libraries’ work stations.
Best practice for digitising small-scale Digital Humanities projects
Authors: Bockwinkel Peggy , Cakir Dîlan
Published: October 2024

Digital Humanities (DH) are growing rapidly; the necessary infrastructure is being built up gradually and slowly. For smaller DH projects, e. g. for testing methods, as a preliminary work for submitting applications or for use in teaching, a corpus often has to be digitised. These small-scale projects make an important contribution to safeguarding and making available cultural heritage, as they make it possible to machine read those resources that are of little or no interest to large projects because they are too special or too limited in scope. They close the gap between large scanning projects of archives, libraries or in connection with research projects and projects that move beyond the canonised paths. Yet, these small projects can fail in this first step of digitisation, because it is often a hurdle for (Digital) Humanists at universities to get the desired texts digitised: either because the digitisation infrastructure in libraries/archives is not available (yet) or it is paid service. Also, researchers are often no digitising experts and a suitable infrastructure at university is missing.
In order to promote small DH projects for teaching purposes, a digitising infrastructure was set up at the University of Stuttgart as part of a teaching project. It should enable teachers to digitise smaller corpora autonomously. This article presents a study that was carried out as part of this teaching project. It suggests how to implement best practices and on which aspects of the digitisation workflow need to be given special attention. The target group of this article are (Digital) Humanists who want to digitise a smaller corpus. Even with no expertise in scanning and OCR and no possibility to outsource the digitisation of the project, they still would like to obtain the best
possible machine-readable files.
Towards Topic Modeling Swedish Housing Policies
Authors: Lindahl Anna , Börjeson Love
Published: October 2024

Topic modeling is an unsupervised method for finding topics in large collections of data. However, in most studies which employ topic modeling there is a lack of using linguistic information when preprocessing the data. Therefore, this work investigates what effect linguistically informed preprocessing has on topic modeling. Through human evaluation, filtering the data based on part of speech is found to have the largest effect on topic quality. Non-lemmatized topics are found to be rated higher than lemmatized topics. Topics from filters based on dependency relations are found to have low ratings. To exemplify how topic modeling can be used to explore public discourse the area of Swedish housing policies is chosen, as represented by documents from the Swedish parliament and Swedish newstexts. This subject is relevant to study because of the current housing crisis in Sweden.
Engaging Collections and Communities
Authors: Longley Arthur Paul
Published: October 2024

Museum computing is a field with a long history that has made a substantial impact on humanities computing, now called ‘digital humanities,’ that dates from at least the 1950s. Community access, public engagement, and participation are central to the charter of most museums and interactive displays are one strategy used help to fulfil that goal. Over the past two decades interactive elements have been developed to offer more immersive, realistic and engaging possibilities through incorporating motion-sensing spaces, speech recognition, networked installations, eye tracking and multitouch tables and surfaces. As museums began to experiment with digital technologies there was an accompanying change of emphasis and policy. Museums aimed to more consciously connect themselves with popular culture by experimenting with the presentation of their collections in ways that would result in increased public appreciation and accessibility. In this paper these shifts are investigated in relation to interactive exhibits, virtual museums, the profound influence of the database, and in terms of a wider breaking down of institutional barriers and hierarchies, resulting in trends towards increasing collaboration.
Research and development efforts on the digitized historical newspaper and journal collection of The National Library of Finland
Authors: Kettunen Kimmo , Koistinen Mika , Ruokolainen Teemu
Published: October 2024

The National Library of Finland (NLF) has digitized historical newspapers, journals and ephemera published in Finland since the late 1990s. The present collection consists of about 12.8 million pages mainly in Finnish and Swedish. Out of these about 7.36 million pages are freely available on the website digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi (Digi). The copyright restricted part of the collection can be used at six legal deposit libraries in different parts of Finland. The time period of the open collection is from 1771 to 1929. This paper presents work that has been carried out in the NLF related to the historical newspaper and journal collection. We offer an overall account of research and development related to the data.
Open Digital Humanities
Authors: Maegaard Bente
Published: October 2024

One of the strong instruments for the promotion of Open Science in Digital Humanities is research infrastructures. PARTHENOS is a European research infrastructure project, basically built upon collaboration between two large the research infrastructures in the humanities CLARIN and DARIAH, plus a number of other initiatives. PARTHENOS aims at strengthening the cohesion of research in the broad sector of Linguistic Studies, Humanities, Cultural Heritage, History, Archaeology and related fields. This is the context in which we should see the efforts related to international liaisons. This effort takes its point of departure in the existing international relations, so the first action was to collect information and to analyse it along different dimensions. Secondly, we want to analyse the purpose and aims of international collaboration. There are many ideas about how the international network may be strengthened and exploited, so that higher quality is obtained, and more data, tools and services are shared. The main task of the next year will be to first agree on a strategy and then implement it in collaboration with the rest of the project. By doing so, the PARTHENOS partners will be contributing even more to the European Open Science Policies.
Språkbanken 2018
Authors: Borin Lars , Forsberg Markus , Edlund Jens , Domeij Rickard
Published: October 2024

We introduce an expanded version of the Swedish research resource Språkbanken (the Swedish Language Bank). In 2018, Språkbanken, which has supported national and international research for over four decades, adds two branches, one focusing on speech and one on societal aspects of language, to its existing organization, which targets text.
New applications of gaze tracking in speech science
Authors: Bystedt Mattias , Edlund Jens
Published: October 2024

We present an overview of speech research applications of gaze tracking technology, where gaze behaviours are exploited as a tool for analysis rather than as a primary object of study. The methods presented are all in their infancy, but can greatly assist the analysis of digital audio and video as well as unlock the relationship between writing and other encodings on the one hand, and natural language, such as speech, on the other. We discuss three directions in this type of gaze tracking application: modelling of text that is read aloud, evaluation and annotation with naïve informants, and evaluation and annotation with expert annotators. In each of these areas, we use gaze tracking information to gauge the behaviour of people when working with speech and conversation, rather than when reading text aloud or partaking in conversations, in order to learn something about how the speech may be analysed from a human perspective.
A Humorous View into the Past
Authors: M Hall Mark , Nicholson Bob
Published: October 2024

Jokes represent one of the most understudied sources about nineteenth century society. Due to their ephemeral nature they slipped from attention as soon as they were no longer funny or topical. Digitisation of newspapers and books has made them available again, but due to their short nature they are not easily accessible through current generic keyword-based newspaper search systems. In this paper we present the Old Jokes Archive, which aims to provide a digital archive focused solely on jokes. The archive will support the full process from initial text acquisition to search and finally re-use by both academic and general public users.
Norwegian Correspondences and Linked Open Data
Authors: Rockenberger Annika , Nessheim Wiger Ellen , Refslund Witting Mette , Bøe Hilde , Thor Evelyn Irene , Wolden Ove , Paasche Marianne , Søndenå Ola , Conzett Philipp
Published: October 2024

The project Norwegian Correspondences aims to link individual letters and other correspondence media not only to each other but to correspondences across all of Norway, Europe and beyond. It uses the CorrespSearch infrastructure, which employs Linked Open Data standards. Correspondence metadata from digitized letters, digital as well as printed scholarly editions is delivered in the Correspondence Metatdata Interchange Format (CMIF). Via the CorrespSearch web interface, data can be easily searched—or queried via an open API.
A Convergence of Methodologies
Authors: Tahmasebi Nina , Hagen Niclas , Brodén Daniel , Malm Mats
Published: October 2024

In this paper, we discuss a data-intensive research methodology for the digital humanities. We highlight the differences and commonalities between quantitative and qualitative research methodologies in relation to a data-intensive research process. We argue that issues of representativeness and reduction must be in focus for all phases of the process; from the status of texts as such, over their digitization to pre-processing and methodological exploration.
Bilingual Parallel Corpora Featuring the Circum-Baltic Languages within the Russian National Corpus
Authors: Sitchinava Dmitri , Perkova Natalia
Published: October 2024

The paper presents parallel corpora within the Russian National Corpus (RNC) featuring Circum-Baltic/Russian language pairs and describes the choice of texts, morphological annotation and possible applications. The following languages of the Circum-Baltic linguistic area are included into the bilingual pairs of the corpus: Estonian, Finnish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, and Swedish. The corpus includes both fiction and non-fiction texts and has a diachronic dimension. The morphological annotation of different languages is sen sitive for language-specific categories and features. For each language an ex- panded RNC tagset is constructed which provides cross-linguistic comparison but at the same time takes into consideration differences in grammatical systems. The corpora can be used for exploring some grammatical and lexical features for the Circum-Baltic region that have no straightforward correspondence in Russian and are often rendered by other means. Further expansion of the corpus by non-fiction genres is particularly important for the study of lexicon and syntax specific for legalese, media or academic style.
With small steps to the big picture A method and tool negotiation workflow
Authors: Freybe Konstantin , Rämisch Florian , Hoffmann Tracy
Published: October 2024

In this paper we reflect on our research of Japanese video game culture, with focus on strategies of interdisciplinary collaboration. We understand our collaborative research as ongoing negotiation that aims at finding common ground between researchers from different backgrounds. We decided not to work on a single extensive question over the research period. Instead, we chose to work on a number of smaller problems (called Tiny Use Case (TUC)) that are aligned with superordinate research interests. Various methods from both humanities and information sciences were adapted and customized to these needs. A fundamental mutual understanding is essential for the various tasks in the team. The right choice and mix of methods and tools does not only depend on the specific team constellation (age, backgrounds, skills) but also a matter of available resources such as time, and the flexibility to explore.
I Want it All, I Want it Now.
Authors: Hannesschläger Vanessa , Andorfer Peter
Published: October 2024

This paper describes a collaborative project carried out in 2017. The initial motivation to do the project was a call for participation in a conference on text genetic editing in digital editions. A literature researcher (Vanessa) asked a programmer (Peter) to work with her on a little publication platform which would display an edition focusing on the text genesis of a specific play written by her main subject of study, the Austrian writer Peter Handke, to present at the aforementioned conference - he agreed. In turn, Peter asked Vanessa to come up with a research question about the text and a list of features she would need the platform to have. Her answer was simple, really - and it became the title of this paper, which speaks of what Vanessa wanted, what Peter wanted, how they did it and how that worked out. We will describe the data modelling, the automated and the manual processing of the data, the tools used, the technical implementation, the resulting handke-app and the challenges and benefits of two very different research perspectives in all these steps.
Tracing Complexity in Food Blogging Entries
Authors: Kāle Maija , Agbozo Ebenezer
Published: October 2024

Within this paper, we focus on the concept of complexity and how it is represented in food blogging entries on Twitter. We turn specific attention to complexity capture when looking at healthy foods, focusing on food blogging entries that entail the notions of health/healthiness/healthy. We do so because we consider that complexity manifests hedonism - that is the irrational determinant of food choice above rational considerations of nutrition and healthiness. Using text as a platform for our analysis, we derive bigrams and topic models that illustrate the frequencies of words and bi-grams, thus, pointing our attention to current discourse in food blogging entries on Twitter. The results show that, contrary to complexity, that the dominating characteristics in healthy food domain are easiness and speed of preparation, however, rational and health related considerations may not always take precedence when the choice is determined. Food blogging entries show surprisingly little account of healthy food as being tasty and enjoyable. With this we aim to contribute to the knowledge of how to shape more healthy consumer behaviors. Having discovered the scarcity of hedonic connotations, this work invites for further research in text-based information about food.
Keeping it Simple
Authors: G. Martin Benjamin
Published: October 2024

In my current research on the intellectual history of international relations, I aim to use digital methods of text analysis to explore conceptual content and change in diplomatic texts. Specifically, I am interested in the sub-set of bilateral treaties explicitly related to cross-border cultural exchange – cultural treaties – some 2000 of which were signed in the twentieth century. What methods and workflows seem most appropriate for this task? Our answer thus far has been to keep it simple. Inspired by recent work by Franco Moretti, Sarah Allison, and others, we apply a straightforward form of quantitative word trend analysis, integrated with analysis of metadata about the corpus and tested (and expanded) through full-text searching. By formulating this approach in a specific relationship to the nature of the corpus and the historical questions I want to ask of it, we are able to get quite a lot out of this simple method. In this paper, I describe this approach, share some provisional findings, and offer some methodological reflections.
Digital History of Virtual Museums
Authors: Povroznik Nadezhda
Published: October 2024

Many thousands of virtual museums exist on the Internet, demonstrating very diverse and significant museum resources, showcasing the treasury of humankind. These resources have come a long way in their evolution over past decades. The history of virtual museums began long before they appeared on the Internet, and the concept of virtual museums needed to be established in order to become an essential and effective means of accomplishing new museum functions in the digital age. Through the designing of such a concept, the creation and development of museums' information resources, websites and various digital initiatives have become the keys to the success of museums in the digital environment today. This article considers the concept of a virtual museum, traces the transition of virtual museums from analog and interim multimedia formats to the online environment. The author surveys the crucial moments in the history of virtual museums and the stages of their development from the digital turn to their appearance on the Internet and subsequent transformation after this transition. In this article examples of museum information resources from North America and Europe, Japan and Australia are traced back to the first virtual museums online in the 1990s. Based on the analysis of materials from web archives, strategies for creating the first virtual museum resources on the WWW are identified.
Comparing Word Frequencies and Lexical Diversity with the ZipfExplorer Tool
Authors: Coats Steven
Published: October 2024

The ZipfExplorer is a tool for the interactive comparison and visualization of shared word type frequencies for two texts or corpora. The tool can be used to give insight into similarities and differences in textual and discourse content in terms of individual keywords or groups of keywords, and also calculates several measures of lexical diversity for the shared types of the selected texts. A selection of texts and corpora can be analyzed, and users can upload their own files for interactive comparison.
Can Umlauts Ruin Your Research in Digitized Newspaper Collections?
Authors: Klaus Barbara
Published: October 2024

Digitized newspaper collections facilitate the access to historical newspapers. Even though they offer several useful possibilities regarding the research in historical newspapers and magazines, the (automatic) research in these collections is (still) full of limitations and pitfalls. Based on the research conducted on the platform AustriaN Newspapers Online (ANNO) for the NewsEye case study ‘the dark sides of war’, the main challenges of working with digitized newspaper collections will be discussed in this paper. Especially two aspects – the fire catastrophe at the munitions factory Wöllersdorf (1918/09/18) in Lower Austria and the Austrian press coverage about war widows during the First World War – will be used as specific examples. The discussed limitations include the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) quality, provided search options and metadata, as well as others. Furthermore, possible improvements regarding these challenges, e.g. Optical Layout Recognition (OLR), Named-entity Recognition (NER) and Named-entity Linking (NEL), will be presented in this paper.
In Quest of Transition Books
Authors: Kotkov Denis , Launis Kati , Neovius Mats
Published: October 2024

Literature read by a person not only reflects, but also affects that person. In fact, certain books (transition books) might trigger this process of becoming interested in grownup’s literature and therefore mentally becoming a grownup. In this paper, we detect books that are likely to be transition books or transition book candidates based on a loan dataset provided to us by Vantaa City Library. With four methods applied to this dataset we show what books and why are likely to be the candidates. We found the following candidate books:
Tahtiin kirjoitettu virhe ¨ by John Green, Punainen kuin veri by Salla Simukka and Luukaupunki by Cassandra Clare. Our findings also indicate a few other books that are less likely, but still good candidates for transition books.
Linked Open Data Service about Historical Finnish Academic People in 1640–1899
Authors: Leskinen Petri , Hyvönen Eero
Published: October 2024

The Finnish registries “Ylioppilasmatrikkeli” 1640–1852 and 1853–1899 contain detailed biographical data about virtually every academic person in Finland during the respective time periods. This paper presents first results on transforming these registries into a Linked Open Data service using the FAIR principles. The data is based on the student registries of the University of Helsinki, formerly the Royal Academy of Turku, that have been digitized, transliterated, and enriched with additional data about the people from various other registries. Our goal is to transform this largely textual data into Linked Open Data using named entity recognition and linking techniques, and to enrich the data further based on links to internal and external data sources and by reasoning new associations in the data. The data will be published as a Linked Open Data service on top of which a semantic portal “AcademySampo” with tools for searching, browsing, and analyzing the data in biographical and prosopographical research are provided.
Challenges in Annotation
Authors: Öhman Emily
Published: October 2024

With the prevalence of machine learning in natural language processing and other fields, an increasing number of crowd-sourced data sets are created and published. However, very little has been written about the annotation process from the point of view of the annotators. This pilot study aims to help fill the gap and provide insights into how to maximize the quality of the annotation output of crowd-sourced annotations with a focus on fine-grained sentence-level sentimentand emotion annotation from the annotators point of view.
Building a Linked Open Data Portal of War Victims in Finland 1914–1922
Authors: Rantala Heikki , Jokipii Ilkka , Koho Mikko , Ikkala Esko , Tuominen Jouni , Hyvönen Eero
Published: October 2024

This paper presents results from a project that publishes data about the war victims in Finland in 1914–22 as a Linked Open Data service and a portal of tools called WARVICTIMSAMPO 1914–22 to explore and analyze the data. At the same time, the data is extended with new information and cleaned from mistakes when found. The project is based on the database War Victims of Finland 1914–22 (“Sotasurmat 1914–22”) of the National Archives of Finland and related data compiled during the project. This database contains some 40 000 death records, most of which are due to the Finnish Civil War but some are related to the First World War and the Kindred Nations Wars. In addition to the war victims, our data includes information about 1200 battles of the Civil War and various prisoner camps. A key novelty of WARVICTIMSAMPO 1914–22 is the integration of ready-to-use Digital Humanities tooling with the data service, which allows, e.g., studying information about wider prosopographical groups in addition to individual victims. We show by examples how using the tools of the portal the data can be better explored and analyzed for research and education purposes.
Creating an Annotated Corpus for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis in Swedish
Authors: Rouces Jacobo , Borin Lars , Tahmasebi Nina
Published: October 2024

Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis constitutes a more fine-grained alternative to traditional sentiment analysis at sentence level. In addition to a sentiment value denoting how positive or negative a particular opinion or sentiment expression is, it identifies additional aspects or ‘slots’ that characterize the opinion. Some typical aspects are target and source, i.e. who holds the opinion and about which entity or aspect is the opinion. We present a large Swedish corpus annotated for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis. Each sentiment expression is annotated as a tuple that contains the following fields: one among 5 possible sentiment values, the target, the source, and whether the sentiment expressed is ironic. In addition, the linguistic element that conveys the sentiment is identified too. Sentiment for a particular topic is also annotated at title, paragraph and document level. The documents are articles obtained from two Swedish media (Svenska Dagbladet and Aftonbladet) and one online forum (Flashback), totalling around 4000 documents. The corpus is freely available and we plan to use it for training and testing an Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis system.
Crowdsourcing Metadata for Audiovisual Cultural Heritage
Authors: Salmi Hannu , Laine Kimmo , Römpötti Tommi , Kallioniemi Noora , Karvo Elina
Published: October 2024

This paper is based on a crowdsourcing project which was realised at the School of History, Culture and Arts Studies of the University of Turku between the years 2013–2018. The idea was to develop a format through which long-term crowdsourcing could be integrated into the humanities curriculum. The project was realised in close cooperation with the National Audiovisual Institute (KAVI) in Finland. The aim was to help KAVI in developing its open database for Finnish cinema, Elonet, by engaging both graduate and postgraduate students in producing keywords, genre characterisations, plot summaries and other relevant fields of information for Finnish cinema. In total, the project produced metadata for 572 full-length films, both fiction films and long documentaries that had their theatre release between the years 1946 and 1985. The amount is substantial considering that, to date, around 1,600 full-length films have been released in Finland. At the same time, it produced a successful model for drawing on crowdsourcing in the classroom.
Towards an Analysis of Gender in Video Game Culture
Authors: Schmidt Thomas , Engl Isabella , Herzog Juliane , Judisch Lisa
Published: October 2024

We present preliminary results of a project examining the role and usage of gender specific vocabulary in a corpus of video game magazines. The corpus consists of three popular video game magazines with 634 issues from the 1980s until 2011 and was gathered via OCR-scans of the platform archive.org. We report on the distribution and progression of gender-specific words by using word lists of the LIWC for the categories “male” and “female”. We can indeed show that words of the type male are considerably more frequent than words of the type female, with a slight increase of female words during 2006–2010. This is in line with the overall development of gaming culture throughout these years and previous research in the humanities. Furthermore, we analyzed how the usage of negatively connoted words for female depictions (e.g. chick, slut) has evolved and identified a constant increase throughout the years reaching the climax around 2001–2005, a timespan that coincides with the release and popularity of games encompassing rather sexist concepts. We discuss the limitations of our explorations and report on plans to further investigate the role of gender in gaming culture.
3D and AI Technologies for the Development of Automated Monitoring of Urban Cultural Heritage
Authors: Žižiūnas Tadas , Amilevičius Darius
Published: October 2024

New technological solutions for the effective, objective and cost-sensitive monitoring of cultural heritage are needed. Accordingly, a new methodological approach based on laser scanning, 3D photogrammetry, artificial intelligence and GIS interaction is presented in this paper. The main goal is to develop a software that could detect and compare various architectural and urban elements by comparing 2D and 3D data of objects and places of the same cultural heritage from different time periods. This represents a breakthrough technological tool for governments to track the broad-scale status of heritage and act in a timely and proactive manner. The methodological approach was to inspect changes comprised of geometrical alterations in 3D data and pixel-based information changes in 2D data. The proposed solution was developed as part of a project financed by the Research Council of Lithuania entitled Automated monitoring of urban heritage implementing 3D technologies. The first results of the project are presented in this article. All pictures and tables in this paper were prepared by the authors.
Twin Talk
Authors: Rudan Sasha Mile , Kelbert Eugenia , Kovacevic Lazar , Rudan Sinisa , Reynolds Matthew
Published: October 2024

This paper focuses on a long-term collaboration between the two poles of the DH-dipole; the D-pole: a CSCW (Computer-supported cooperative work) - Computer Science scholar, Sasha Rudan, and the H-pole: a Comparative Literature scholar, Eugenia Kelbert. It involves work with a larger team as well, including this paper’s co-authors, among others. Our research started through a mutual interest in the digital analysis of stylistic features of fictional texts, mostly novels. Eventually, it developed towards designing a new ecosystem for collaborative research in the textual and stylometric DH domains. From a practical research question in stylometry in translingualism, we evolved to developing new tools, a DH infrastructure, later a DH research collaboration ecosystem and metaresearch questions addressing challenges of DH collaboration and its practical solutions. Here, we discuss the oppositions between the different disciplines involved, the challenges we faced on the road, and how we tried to avoid them by getting a level higher in our collaboration.
Taking the Livonians into the Digital Space
Authors: Ernštreits Valts , Kļava Gunta
Published: October 2024

The Livonians are a Finno-Ugric nation indigenous to Latvia. They are presently the most endangered culture in the European Union and their language is one of the most endangered languages in the world. The Livonian speech community lost its last compactly inhabited territory during the Soviet occupation of Latvia and since then has experienced a steady but continuous loss of Livonian language speakers. Today, only approximately 20 people are able to hold a conversation in Livonian. While presently living scattered across Latvia, with their language no longer used as a medium of daily interaction, the Livonian community has taken this challenging reality and turned it to its advantage in its approach to creating language resources from a limited set of human and archival resources. This article is devoted specifically to the subject of digital humanities in the service of endangered languages and cultures. Understanding the specifics of endangered and especially critically endangered languages and cultures, which actually form the majority of the world’s cultural and linguistic diversity, is critically important both in building tailor-made digital resources for such communities and applying ready-made instruments for their benefit. This article offers a broader picture of the challenges and opportunities that developers of digital resources for critically endangered languages and cultures have to take into account, based on the Livonian experience. The article summarises and presents some of the findings and ideas deriving from the creation of digital resources and tools for the Livonian language and culture, approaches for overcoming a lack of resources and limited data issues, as well benefits and experiences that low resource – especially extremely low resource – cultures and languages can derive from the Livonian experience.