This presentation is about the current state of my PhD in Digital Humanities
As you have seen on the Google Doc agenda, I have planned two hours for this call and hopefully we will have enough time for discussion after each segment, ideally up to 15 minutes for questions and remarks for each part.
The goals of this meeting are to give you an update of where I stand, knowing that I am halfway through the PhD and setting the overal research directions for this year, but also for 2024.
As you can see I have earned enough credits, but this is to ensure that if I want to enroll into a doctoral program at the University, I still have enough flexibility to do it without taking new courses.
There are two main documents or links that you can always access. I write my dissertation on Overleaf, an online LaTeX editor and I have decided to set up a dedicated website.
Here is how it looks like, with the editor on the left-hand side and the output, which is a PDF, on the right-hand side.
The website has four components. It's not only a website that describe what I've been doing and what I intend to do, but also a sort of meta exercise.
I am mostly happy with the new working title but I like to have one that sticks for the upcoming two years as it greatly helps for the structure.
As you may have seen on the PDF or the dedicated spreadsheet, I set up five research question, each with their hypothesis, as well as eight objectives.
For the research question and hypothesis pair, there is also a chapter in the Methodology and a chapter in the Empirical Research
And I think I will switch to the Google Sheet to get a better overview.
IIIF Community Overview: IIIF is a community-driven effort which is sometimes rather confusing to grasp quickly given the number of different committees, groups and denominations involved.
I have tried to provide an overview of the different actors showing the relationships and sometimes the deliverables.
- a meta level of my thesis to describe the dissertation and its chapters/sections
- the notebook entries that will be published on https://phd.julsraemy.ch
- the concepts that are not available via the Getty vocabularies
- the actors (people and groups) involved within the PIA research project and my thesis.
PhD Data Model. Example of the dissertation
IIIF Workflow within PIA
Here are the main chapters of the PhD. You have received a more extensive, which is actually an ouptut in PDF that I generated from Overleaf a couple of weeks ago. What is quite important
1) Demonstrating how non-human entities have agency.;
2) Identifying the human and non-human actors participating in the process;
3) Investigating how the concept of translation is carried out, i.e. the process that allows a network to be represented by a single entity.