Stordatahumaniora

With the advent of the 21st century, increasing amounts of data from\nthe domain of qualitative humanities and social science research have\nbecome available for quantitative analysis. Private enterprises (Google Books and Earth, Youtube, Flickr, Twitter, Freebase, IMDb, among others) as well as public and non-profit institutions (Europeana, Wikipedia, DBPedia, Project Gutenberg, WordNet, Perseus,\netc) are in the process of collecting, digitizing, and structuring vast\namounts of information, and creating technologies, applications, and\nservices (Linked Open Data, Open Calais, Amazon's Mechanical Turk, ReCaptcha, ManyEyes, etc), which are transforming the way we do research.

Utilizing\na complex systems approach to harness these data, the contributors of\nthis event aim to make headway into the territory of traditional\nhumanities and social sciences, understanding history, arts,\nliterature, and society on a global-, meso- and granular level, using\ncomputational methods to go beyond the limitations of the traditional\nresearcher.