Analyzing structures and evolution of digital humanities based on correspondence analysis and co-word analysis
Xiaoguang Wang, 光行 稲葉 · Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) · 2009
IntroductionOver the last decades, digital humanities has been studied increasingly.As an interdisciplinary study concerned with the intersection of computing and traditional humanities disciplines, digital humanities researchers come from various fields such as history, philosophy, linguistics, literature, arts, and archaeology.Although the multi-aspects of digital humanities is obvious, the interdisciplinary structure and the development state of digital humanities has not been established yet.Citation and keyword are two regular indicators to analyze and map the structures and evolution of science domains in scientometrics.As digital humanities is a new interdiscipline without long history and rich citation clues, keyword based analysis is more suitable and efficient than citation based analysis.Co-word analysis and correspondence analysis are two practical keyword based analysis techniques.The former one uses patterns of co-occurrence of pairs of items in a corpus to identify the relationships between words or phrases, the extent to which these items are central to the 123 Analyzing Structures and Evolution of Digital Humanities Based on Correspondence Analysis and Co-word Analysis Analyzing Structures and Evolution of Digital Humanities Based on