Jennifer Isasi

A review of the Urarina Digital Heritage Project, a digital collection of Indigenous cultural heritage materials, developed by the Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Kansas

As a plenary speaker of the Fifth AAHD Congress, I presented several methodologies that I apply to literary studies experimentally. Using an experiment on sentiment analysis as an example, I justify the need to account for multilingual DH environments from my bilingual experience in the United States, within digital humanities in general and workshops to propose pilot experiments with existing methodologies, as prototypes to start working on text analysis in different languages. This article does not claim that the method used here is the best linguistic or cultural approach for sentiment analysis of Hispanic American cultural products. However, it defends the potential of exploring available techniques to create more inclusive spaces in rapid learning scenarios and in which, generally, the literary texts used belong to the Anglo-Saxon canon.

Programming Historian (PH) was launched in 2008 as an introductory resource to Python, created by William J. Turkel and Alan MacEachern. In 2012, PH expanded its editorial team and thematic scope to become an open-access peer-reviewed journal of methodologies for digital scholarship relevant across the humanities and social sciences. The English-language version served as the original model of intake, open peer-review, and publication but in 2017, 2019 and 2021, respectively, PH added Spanish-, French-, and Portuguese-language versions. Becoming a unique set of multilingual journals, however, raised many obstacles along the way. This chapter will focus on the development of our multilingual and multicultural publishing strategies aimed at providing readability for our global audience, as we believe Programming Historian can provide a model for digital publishing and the digital humanities.

It is increasingly common to read papers by researchers from multiple disciplines about the prevalence of the English language as the lingua franca in academic publishing, also pointing to linguistic discrimination by reviewers or scientific editors. These problems can also be identified in the field of the Digital Humanities on a global scale. But do we, Spanish-speaking digital humanists, publish in our languages ​​when the opportunity presents itself? And are we quoting our linguistic colleagues? Through a meta-analytic approach about the geopolitics and multilingualism in English and Spanish-speaking DH, we examine 9,580 bibliographic references contained in 510 scientific articles published between 2014 and 2021. We want to draw attention to the communication and dissemination practices of knowledge in a community with great sociocultural, linguistic and geopolitical diversity, showing inequality in the number of citations of works on HD in languages ​​other than English.

Esta lección demuestra cómo crear un mapa web interactivo usando R y Shiny. En la lección, diseñarás e implementarás una aplicación simple, que consiste en un control deslizante que permite a los usuarios seleccionar un rango de fechas y mostrar un conjunto de puntos correspondientes en un mapa interactivo.