What Is Formalisation? And Why Do We Need to Talk About It In DH?

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  1. 1. Stefan Heßbrüggen-Walter

    National Research Unversity Higher School of Economics

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The digital humanities as a discipline are centered on "formalisation". We acknowledge the fact that the machines we use employ formal languages, but we still lack a clear idea of what follows from this insight for the self-conceptualisation of the discipline. My presentation clarifies the concept of formalisation and spells out some of its practical consequences.

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Conference Info

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ADHO - 2020
"carrefours / intersections"

Hosted at Carleton University, Université d'Ottawa (University of Ottawa)

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

July 20, 2020 - July 25, 2020

475 works by 1078 authors indexed

Conference cancelled due to coronavirus. Online conference held at https://hcommons.org/groups/dh2020/. Data for this conference were initially prepared and cleaned by May Ning.

Conference website: https://dh2020.adho.org/

References: https://dh2020.adho.org/abstracts/

Series: ADHO (15)

Organizers: ADHO

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