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When starting a data-based research project many questions arise, such as:

• How do I obtain data?
• How should the data be structured?
• Which formats could accompany me through my project?
• How do I operationalize my research question?
• How do I evaluate my findings?
• What else could be done with my data?

Research questions in the (digital) humanities are usually quite individual, thus workflows and software solutions must leave room for individual design. Nevertheless, there are also numerous common requirements regarding the digital analysis of texts and corpora, and thus standardized solutions have been created addressing these requirements.

The workshop addresses challenges regarding the design of a data-based research projects step-by-step and presents solutions. Together we will explore the basics of XML technologies, which usually play an essential role in both corpus creation and corpus analysis. In addition, we will deal with regular expressions, which are a versatile tool with manageable complexity at different places during data processing.

The workshop is organised on October 11, 2024, 09:00–12:00, including coffee break + fika.

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About the presenter

Susanne Haaf-Dumont. Photo: private.

Susanne Haaf-Dumont works as a teacher and research associate at the department of Historical German Linguistics at Leipzig University, Germany.

In her doctoral thesis, she examined the specifics of devotional text types of the 17th century based on textual patterns (DOI: 10.17619/UNIPB/1-1989). Her research is focused on questions in historical text and corpus linguistics.

This workshop is organised by Digital Human Sciences at Stockholm University, one of 12 nodes in the Swedish national infrastructure called Huminfra.