Text Mining Art History Dataset for the Research Project Metadata Culture

Dataset Summary/Readme

Computational methods such as text mining have become increasingly popular in the humanities over the last ten years, and art history is no exception. The aim of this study was to apply one digital humanities (DH) method—text mining—to a representative selection of art history literature in order to understand historiographic trends in the field today. Three sets of journal articles published over the last decade were compiled: (1) articles published in Art History (2) articles published in Art Journal and (3) articles associated with the sub-field of digital art history (DAH) published in the International Journal of Digital Art History and Visual Resources. The text mining operations performed were designed to extract lists of most frequently appearing words in the body text of each sample set as well as lists of which authors were most frequently cited in the footnotes and bibliography of articles.

This dataset is created by Amanda Wasielewski, postdoctoral fellow in art history and participant in the research project Metadata Culture.

Data Report Text Mining Art History 2019-2020 (218 Kb)

Venn Diagrams summary (309 Kb)

Results

Top Words/Authors lists

1a bodytext total frequency (117 Kb)

1b bodytext frequency out of articles (147 Kb)

2b bibliography frequency out of articles (77 Kb)

Top Authors in Bibliographies

AH bib top 35 (0 Kb)

AJ bib top 35 (0 Kb)

DAH bib top 35 (0 Kb)

Top Words in Body Text

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AJ top 100 1a (0 Kb)

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DAH top 100 1a (0 Kb)

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Results CSVs

1a Art History RAW (1114 Kb)

1a Art History stopwords_en_custom1-stemmed (799 Kb)

1a Art History stopwords (1113 Kb)

1a Art Journal RAW (698 Kb)

1a Art Journal stopwords en_custom1-stemmed (590 Kb)

1a Art Journal stopwords en (697 Kb)

1a DAH-RAW (223 Kb)

1a DAH stopwords en-custom1-stemmed (131 Kb)

1a DAH stopwords_en (222 Kb)

1b Art History RAW (4857 Kb)

1b Art History stopwords_en_custom1-stemmed (736 Kb)

1b Art History stopwords_en (4856 Kb)

1b Art Journal RAW (4664 Kb)

1b Art Journal stopwords_en-custom1-stemmed (4402 Kb)

1b Art Journal stopwords_en (4663 Kb)

1b DAH RAW (4247 Kb)

1b DAH stopwords_en-custom1-stemmed (139 Kb)

1b DAH stopwords (4246 Kb)

2b Art History stopwords_en (862 Kb)

2b Art Journal stopwords_en (625 Kb)

2b DAH stopwords_en (4164 Kb)

Sample bibliographies

Art History Sample bibliography (259 Kb)

Art Journal Sample bibliography (160 Kb)

DAHVR sample bibliography (133 Kb)

Venn Diagram Components

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Venn Diagram 1b

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Venn Diagram 2b

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Custom word list

Custom word list (19 Kb)