Models and Modelling between Digital and Humanities: Remarks from a Multidisciplinary Perspective

Abstract: We here introduce the latest issue of Historical Social Research Supplement (No. 31). In “Models and Modelling between Digital and Humanities - A Multidisciplinary Perspective” we refrain from providing a normative definition of ‘model’ and ‘modelling’ and rather attempt at encircling the current state of the art. In the first instance this chapter provides a very brief overview on modelling as intended as a research strategy applied to scientific fields in the 20th-21st centuries. This overview is followed by a short introduction to modelling in digital humanities, focusing on how modelling has developed into a practical strategy and how it has been theorised. The third part of the introduction presents the scope of the project ”Modelling between digital and humanities: Thinking in practice”. The aim of a project workshop held in 2017, of which HSR Supplement 31 collects the proceedings, was to present a multitude of modelling practices from various disciplines together with diffe

Object Details

• Alternative title: Modelle und Modellieren zwischen Digital und Humanities: Bemerkungen aus multidisziplinärer Perspektive
• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Models and Modelling between Digital and Humanities: Remarks from a Multidisciplinary Perspective ; volume:43 ; number:4 ; year:2018 ; pages:343-361 ; Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; Historical social research ; 43, Heft 4 (2018), 343-361

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie ; Naturwissenschaften

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Ciula, Arianna ; Eide, Øyvind ; Marras, Cristina ; Sahle, Patrick

Further information

• DOI: 10.12759/hsr.43.2018.4.343-361
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2019071015083977478970
• Rights: Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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