Opening talk for the Introduction to Digital Humanities Workshop, at the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School 2015. Presented 20 July 2015 in St Anne's College.

1. David De Roure
@dder
Intersection, Scale, and
Social Machines
The Humanities in the Digital Age
DIRECTOR, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD E-RESEARCH CENTRE

2. Porter, Bernard. 1939. Being a Map of Physics. Courtesy of Maine State Library and Mark Melnicove. In "10th Iteration (2014): The
Future of Science Mapping," Places & Spaces: Mapping Science, edited by Katy Börner and Samuel Mills. http://scimaps.org

3. http://oxfordschoolofphotography.wordpress.com/tag/tilt-shift-photography/
▶ An Introduction to Digital Humanities
▶ Crowdsourcing for Academic, Library and Museum Environments
▶ Digital Approaches in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
▶ Digital Musicology
▶ From Text to Tech
▶ Humanities Data: Curation, Analysis, Access, and Reuse
▶ Leveraging the Text Encoding Initiative
▶ Linked Data for the Humanities

6. Segolene’s
slide

7. Edwards, P. N., et al. (2013) Knowledge Infrastructures: Intellectual Frameworks and Research
Challenges. Ann Arbor: Deep Blue. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/97552

8. The Big Picture(s)

9. ChristineBorgman

10. theODI.org

11. F i r s t

12. Data Detect Store AnalyticsFilter Analysts

13. Four
Quadrant
Diagram
Digital
Scholarship

14. Citizens

15. Social
Machines
Defini8on
TBL

17. Scientists
Talk
Forum
Image
Classification
data reduction
Citizen Scientists

18. http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/science-and-technology-committee/news/report-responsible-use-of-data/

19. Crossing the Boundaries of
Discipline
Multi/Inter/Trans/Post

20. Community
So>ware
Supercomputer
Digital
Music
Collec8ons
Student-­‐sourced
ground
truth
Community
So>ware
Linked
Data
Repositories
Supercomputer
23,000 hours of
recorded music
Music Information
Retrieval Community
SALAMI

21. Sequence alignment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence_alignment#/media/File:Histone_Alignment.png

22. Dan Edelstein, Robert Morrissey, and Glenn Roe, To Quote or not to Quote: Citation Strategies in the Encyclopédie. Journal of the
History of Ideas , Volume 74, Number 2, April 2013 . pp. 213-236. 10.1353/jhi.2013.0012

23. 3,610 Shared Passages
Montesquieu - 681 passages
• De l'esprit des lois (1746) - 477 passages
• Considérations sur les Romains… (1734) - 173 passages
Voltaire - 528 passages
• Essai sur l'histoire générale… (1756) - 415 passages
Jean-Baptiste Dubos - 229 passages
• Réflexions critiques sur la poésie et sur la peinture (1719) - 227 passages
René Aubert de Vertot - 122 passages
• Histoire des révolutions arrivées dans le gouvernement romain (1727) - 122 passages
Antoine Arnauld & Pierre Nicole - 107 passages
• La logique, or l'art de penser (1662) - 107 passages
Charles Rollin - 100 passages
• Histoire ancienne des Égyptiens (1738) - 94 passages
Montaigne - 91 passages
• Les Essais (1595) - 91 passages
Condillac - 91 passages
• Essai sur l'origine des connaissances humaines (1746) - 91 passages
Aligned passages in the over 900 texts that predate the publication of the Encyclopédie in the ARTFL-Frantext collection,
from Russell Horton, Mark Olsen, and Glenn Roe, Something Borrowed: Sequence Alignment and the Identification of
Similar Passages in Large Text Collections, Digital Studies - Le Champ numérique 2 (1)

24. Psychology and digital technology are
being combined to understand music
in new ways. In the run-up to the
Being Human festival, a group of
students in the audience for Wagner’s
epic ‘Ring Cycle’, conducted by Valery
Gergiev (Birmingham Hippodrome)
will take part in an intriguing
experiment to monitor the sensations
produced over the 16-hour cycle of
four operas.
How do we really
experience Wagner’s music?
http://beinghumanfestival.org/event/hearing-wagner/

25. !

26. Mark d’Inverno
http://goldsmiths.musiccircleproject.com/
PRAISE: Performance and pRactice Agents Inspiring Social Education

27. Tarte, S. Willcox, P., Glaser, H. and De Roure, D. 2015. Archetypal Narratives in Social
Machines: Approaching Sociality through Prosopography. ACM Web Science 2015.

28. Crossing the Boundaries
of Time

30. Richard O’Bierne

31. First
Folio
Social
Machines
Metadata
Story of the
First Folio
Social
Machines Annotation
David De Roure and Pip Willcox
‘“Coniunction, with the participation of Society”: Citizens, Scale, and
Scholarly Social Machines’
Beyond the PDF: Born-Digital Humanities, Boston, 27–28 April 2015
Pip Willcox

32. Digital
Material
Pip Willcox

33. Elizabeth Williamson

34. A computationally-enabled
sense-making network of
expertise, data, software,
models and narratives
Big Data, in a
Big Data Centre

35. Same quest, with some new methods
Doing things in new ways
Doing entirely new things
Social as well as digital
Intersection, Scale, and Social Machines
Humanities can benefit from
scholarship in other disciplines
Can other disciplines benefit from
scholarship in the humanities?
For discussion at the closing panel

36. david.deroure@oerc.ox.ac.uk
@dder
Thanks to Christine Borgman, Chris Lintott, Richard O’Bierne,
Glenn Roe, Ségolène Tarte, Pip Willcox; CofK, FAST,
FORCE11, SOCIAM, Transforming Musicology; AHRC,
EPSRC, ESRC, JISC, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
http://www.slideshare.net/davidderoure/humanities-in-the-digital-age