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Managing Uncertainty in the Humanities: Digital and Analogue Approaches

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TEEM'18: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality

Pages 840 - 844

https://doi.org/10.1145/3284179.3284326

Published: 24 October 2018 Publication History

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This paper takes a high-level view of both the sources and status of uncertainty in humanities research and the attributes a digital system would ideally have. It draws upon both the experience of a number of digital projects and research into the many-faceted concept of uncertainty in data. Its intention is to support a dialogue between the humanities and computer science, able to realise the promise of digital humanities without a reversion to a new positivism in disciplines such as history and literary studies.

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Managing Uncertainty in the Humanities: Digital and Analogue Approaches
1. Applied computing
  1. Arts and humanities
2. Information systems
  1. Data management systems
    1. Database design and models
      1. Data model extensions
        Uncertainty
  2. Information systems applications
    1. Decision support systems
      1. Data analytics

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