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The Making of Network Navigator and Critical Approaches to DH Tools

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ID22260557
AuthorsJohn R Ladd (0000-0002-5440-062X, Washington and Jefferson College), Zoe Leblanc (0000-0003-2012-8805, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Year2024
Volume3
Issue1
Publication date2024-06-19
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Digital History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2747-5271 • E-ISSN: 2747-5271
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/jdh-2024-0006
OpenAlexW4406269890
LanguageEN

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

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