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Same same, but different? On the Relation of Information Science and the Digital Humanities: A Scientometric Comparison of Academic Journals Using LDA and Hierarchical Clustering

In this paper we investigate the relationship of Information Science (IS) and the
Digital Humanities (DH) by means of a scientometric comparison of academic
journals from the respective disciplines. In order to identify scholarly practices
for both disciplines, we apply a recent variant of LDA topic modeling that makes
use of additional hierarchical clustering. The results reveal the existence of characteristic topic areas for both IS (information retrieval, information seeking behavior, scientometrics) and DH (computational linguistics, distant reading and
digital editions) that can be used to distinguish them as disciplines in their own
right. However, there is also a larger shared area of practices related to information management and also a few shared topic clusters that indicate a common
ground for – mostly methodological – exchange between the two disciplines.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:92311
Date26 June 2024
CreatorsBurghardt, Manuel, Luhmann, Jan
PublisherWerner Hülsbusch
Source SetsHochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:conferenceObject, info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject, doc-type:Text
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Relationhttps://doi.org/10.5283/epub.44944

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