A DH Panel at EAJS

[Hanna McGaughey]

Dear Colleagues,

Join me on a panel for DH at next year's European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS) in Ghent, Belgium, August 17 to 20. I am looking for presenters interested in joining me on a panel about digital methods for premodern Japanese texts (widely understood).

I am interested in talks that consider one or both of the following topics:

- Projects dealing with premodern rather than early modern text

Many DH projects like in OCR and crowdsourcing are dealing with early modern texts, but can those tools be applied to premodern texts with any success? What other tools are available for digitizing and analyzing premodern texts? What specific challenges arise when digitizing or digitally analyzing premodern texts? I would be most interested in papers that suggest solutions, either theoretical or technical, to any observed challenges.

- Methodological papers examining solutions for how to deal with errors in the digitization process and analysis

OCR, for example, has a higher rate of mistakes than expert transcription. How does crowdsourcing compare? However, mistakes have appeared even in manual transcription practices in the manuscript heritage and in the move from manuscript to print. Cognizant of those mistakes, how can we improve the digital texts we have? Digital analytical tools also make mistakes or amplify researchers' biases when applied to big data. How can we best use the tools we have? How might an experimental approach to literary and historical textual analysis be designed to handle error?

If you are interested, please consider writing a 300 word abstract and sending it to hanna.mcg...@hosei.ac.jp by November 28.

For more information about EAJS 2023, see 

https://eajs.nomadit.co.uk/call-for-panels-and-papers/

To quickly introduce myself, I, Hanna McGaughey, am a postdoctoral researcher at the Noh Theatre Research Institute at Hosei University working on a project to digitize Zeami's critical writings using the XML markup guidelines established by the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and am analyzing an extant digital corpus of noh plays using R, etc. For examples of my work, please see here and here.

Wishing you all a nice weekend!

Best,

Hanna McGaughey

International Postdoctoral Fellow (JSPS)

The Nogami Memorial Noh Theatre Institute

Hosei University

Email: hanna.mcg...@hosei.ac.jp