Application Framework of Network Analysis in Digital Humanities

Wang Linxu; Wang Jun

doi:10.13266/j.issn.0252-3116.2022.20.006

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Application Framework of Network Analysis in Digital Humanities

Wang Linxu ,
Wang Jun

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1.Department of Information Management, Peking University, Beijing 100871;
2. The Center for Digital Humanities, Peking University, Beijing 100871

Received date: 2022-07-29

Revised date: 2022-09-05

Online published: 2022-11-17

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[Purpose/Significance] Network analysis is an effective analysis method and visualization method, is one of the most widely used directions in the field of digital humanities. A systematic summary and induction of the application of network analysis in the field of digital humanities will help the digital humanities researchers quickly identify the capabilities and limitations of network analysis, and to carry out deeper research practice. [Method/Process] In this study, we adopted content analysis to summary the papers published in the most influential journals in the international digital humanities field and International Digital Humanities Conference in the past five years. And from the five perspectives of research question, dataset, network special characteristics and network analysis metrics, the organization system for the application of network analysis methods in the field of digital humanities was finally extracted. [Result/Conclusion] The organizational structure includes three kinds of data scale (including single text analysis, parallel text analysis and corpus analysis), five application scenarios (containing characters analysis network, people relation network, words semantic network, text relevancy network and culture topic network), two scales of indicators (including global indicators and local indicators), and five types of metrics (like composition, density, centrality, clique and structure).

Key words： network analysis; digital humanities; social network analysis; content analysis

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Wang Linxu , Wang Jun . Application Framework of Network Analysis in Digital Humanities[J]. Library and Information Service, 2022 , 66(20) : 50 -61 . DOI: 10.13266/j.issn.0252-3116.2022.20.006

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