Developing Quantitative Methodologies for the Digital Humanities: A Case Study of 20th Century American Commentary on Russian Literature

Using scientific methods in the humanities is at the forefront of objective literary analysis. However, processing big data is particularly complex when the subject matter is qualitative rather than numerical. Large volumes of text require specialized tools to produce quantifiable data from ideas and sentiments. Our team researched the extent to which tools such as Weka and MALLET can test hypotheses about qualitative information. We examined the claim that literary commentary exists within political environments and used US periodical articles concerning Russian literature in the early twentieth century as a case study. These tools generated useful quantitative data that allowed us to run stepwise binary logistic regressions. These statistical tests allowed for time series experiments using sea change and emergency models of history, as well as classification experiments with regard to author characteristics, social issues, and sentiment expressed. Both types of experiments supported our claim with varying degrees, but more importantly served as a definitive demonstration that digitally enhanced quantitative forms of analysis can apply to qualitative data. Our findings set the foundation for further experiments in the emerging field of digital humanities.

Uso de tecnología digital en la comprensión de parámetros en funciones polinomiales

Los estudiantes de enseñanza media se enfrentan al uso e interpretación de los parámetros en funciones polinomiales, lugares geométricos y expresiones algebraicas en general. Este hecho conduce a la necesidad no sólo de diferenciar los parámetros de otro tipo de literales como variables o incógnitas, sino también dar un sentido de uso a los mismos con la finalidad de agrupar los objetos matemáticos en entidades más generales como son las familias de funciones. El presente taller tiene como objetivo mostrar la influencia que puede tener el uso de un recurso tecnológico dinámico en la comprensión de esta polisemia de las literales, así como en la optimización de la ideas como puede ser la generalización.

Espaço de aprendizagem digital: o aprender a aprender por coperaçâo

O estudo é uma pesquisa-ação, na área da Informática na Educação Matemática, sobre a forma de aprender a aprender cooperativamente, segundo os Estudos Sociológicos de Piaget, no espaço de aprendizagem digital da Matemática, desenvolvida no IFRS – Osório, em 2011 e 2012, com 60 estudantes do ensino médio técnico em informática. A questão central é como analisar e compreender o processo de aprendizagem cooperativa dos conceitos de Matemática neste espaço. A definição deste espaço e de aprendizagem cooperativa é resultado desta pesquisa. Além disso, demonstra-se a construção dos conceitos de Matemática, e a mobilização dos estudantes em aprender incorporando-se as tecnologias digitais online às aulas de Matemática, sob a autonomia e responsabilidade de cada estudante e/ou de seu grupo.

Tecnología digital, actos y procesos semióticos en el estudio del objeto continuidad

La teoría de instrucción matemática significativa basada en el modelo ontológico -semiótico de la cognición matemática denominado Teoría de las Funciones Semióticas (TFS ) proporciona un marco unificado para el estudio de las diversas formas de conocimiento matemático y sus respectivas interacciones en el seno de los sistemas didácticos (Godino, 1998 ). Presentamos un desarrollo de esta teoría consistente en la descomposición de un objeto, para nuestro modelo, la Continuidad, en unidades para identificar entidades y las funciones semióticas que se establecen, en el proceso de enseñanza y aprendizaje en una institución escolar, implementando un ambiente de tecnología digital (calculadora graficadora TI-92 Plus y/o Voyage 200).

Geometrías no euclídeas: un acercamiento con tecnología digital

En este curso corto utilizamos distintas aplicaciones de geometría dinámica para realizar construcciones geométricas en el modelo de Poincaré para geometría hiperbólica con el propósito de investigar y determinar la naturaleza de algunos teoremas de geometría para la enseñanza secundaria y superior. De esta forma clasificamos algunos de los teoremas de geometría plana como neutrales, estrictamente euclidianas o estrictamente hiperbólicos.

Distributed digital post-production

It is now possible to use powerful general purpose computer architectures to support post-production of both video and multimedia projects. By devising a suitable portable software architecture and using high-speed networking in an appropriate manner, a system has been constructed where editors are no longer tied to a specific location. New types of production, such as multi-threaded interactive video, are supported. Editors may also work remotely where very high speed network connection is not currently provided. An object-oriented database is used for the comprehensive cataloging of material and to support automatic audio/video object migration and replication. Copyright © 1997 by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

Digital Forestry: A white paper

Digital Forestry has been proposed as “the science, technology, and art of systematically acquiring, integrating, analyzing, and applying digital information to support sustainable forests.” Although rooted in traditional forestry disciplines, Digital Forestry draws from a host of other fields that, in the past few decades, have become important for implementing the concept of forest ecosystem management and the principle of sustainable forestry. Digital Forestry is a framework that links all facets of forestry information at local, national, and global levels through an organized digital network. It is anticipated that a new set of principles will be established when practicing Digital Forestry concept for the evolution of forestry education, research, and practices as the 21st century unfolds.

Managing digital libraries using semantic web technologies

The aim of this work is to improve retrieval and navigation services on bibliographic data held in digital libraries. This paper presents the design and implementation of OntoBib¸ an ontology-based bibliographic database system that adopts ontology-driven search in its retrieval. The presented work exemplifies how a digital library of bibliographic data can be managed using Semantic Web technologies and how utilizing the domain specific knowledge improves both search efficiency and navigation of web information and document retrieval.