DH 101: Introduction To Digital Humanities Exam With
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Digital Humanities - correct answers Way of using digital tools to explore humanities questions, visual
application to humanities based research, using new technology to explore problems and subjects in the
humanities, analyzing and manipulating data from the humanities, provides different ways of presenting
Mediation - correct answers Raw to digital information, making reality accessible in digital form, translating
reality into what the computer can understand
Episteme - correct answers Understanding reality, way of knowing the world and gaining knowledge, how to
evaluate truth
Techne - correct answers Controlling reality, using tools to create knowledge
Classification - correct answers Grouping objects together based on shared properties, mutually exclusive
, Archive - correct answers Digital or analog way to store information and documents, space that employs
systems of classification to organize a collection of material within that space, accumulation of historical
records, archives can be decentralized, they are a product of the time in which they were created (According
to Noriega, the archive needs to be accessible and usable by the scholarly world, but also by the community)
Metadata - correct answers Data about data, attaching classifications to objects themselves, a way to
recontextualize objects for future generations, objects in different contexts have different metadata, allows
resources to be found by relevant criteria, brings resources together, key to ensuring resources will survive
N-Dimensional Space - correct answers Subdivided, grows more and more precise as you refine them further,
categories branch off each other, infinite possibilities, hierarchy, each level should include some meaningful
distinction
Controlled Vocabulary - correct answers Used in order to avoid or minimize the inconsistencies caused by the
use of different but synonymous descriptions, descriptors other than proper nouns must be chosen from a
closed list (i.e. Facebook feelings, Netflix categories)
Ontology - correct answers System of classification and categories, formal framework for understanding
knowledge (Srinivasan), categories that make sense in a given culture
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