Edge Cases
The Making of Network Navigator and Critical Approaches to DH Tools
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22260557 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John R Ladd (0000-0002-5440-062X, Washington and Jefferson College), Zoe Leblanc (0000-0003-2012-8805, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2024-06-19 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Digital History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2747-5271 • E-ISSN: 2747-5271 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/jdh-2024-0006 |
| OpenAlex | W4406269890 |
| Language | EN |
article will explore the role of network analysis research tools as/in scholarly infrastructure, and also detail our attempt to intervene in these practices by building Network Navigator, a browser tool for network analysis.In making Network Navigator, we intentionally contributed to an existing ecosystem of network analysis tools, namely Gephi and Palladio, but we were also motivated to combine the principles of minimal computing with new developments in web architecture and DH.We believe our perspective helps complicate our understanding of "tool"-building, making visible the obscured interpretive work of DH infrastructure.Given the centrality of GUI tools in introductory DH pedagogy, we believe that the making and maintaining of DH tools remains one of the profoundly in uential, and yet consistently under-theorized, areas of DH scholarship and teaching.Even as tools seem to be so foundational to DH, at the same time they remain rarely debated or even Journal of Digital History de ned as a category.Rather than treating 'tools' as simply technical objects, we want to critically examine how their design and materiality directly shapes this conceptual amorphousness, but also more profoundly how this de nitional problem makes it dif cult to discern the ways DH tools are determining larger DH systems and infrastructure
Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution · Computer Science · Multimedia Communication and Technology · Scientific Computing and Data Management · Web Data Mining and Analysis · Artificial Intelligence
| Highly cited | No |
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