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Berry, David M, Borra, Erik, Helmond, Anne, Plantin, Jean Christophe and Walker Rettberg, Jill (2015) The data sprint approach: exploring the field of digital humanities through Amazon’s Application Programming Interface (API). Digital Humanities Quarterly, 9 (4). ISSN 1938-4122
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This paper documents the results of an intensive "data sprint" method for undertaking data and algorithmic work using Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). We develop a method to map the fields of Digital Humanities and Electronic Literature based on title recommendations from the largest online bookseller, Amazon, by retrieving similar purchased items from the Amazon API. A first step shows the overall Amazon recommendation network for Digital Humanities and allows us to detect clusters, aligned fields and bridging books. In a second step we looked into four country-specific Amazon stores (Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.fr and Amazon.de) to investigate the specificities of the Digital Humanities in these four countries. The third step is a network of all books suggested for the Electronic Literature field in the four Amazon stores we searched, which offers a comparison to the field of Digital Humanities.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keywords: | Digital Humanities |
| Schools and Departments: | School of Media, Film and Music > Media and Film |
| Research Centres and Groups: | Sussex Humanities Lab |
| Subjects: | A General Works P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics > P0087 Communication. Mass media Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > ZA Information resources > ZA4080 Digital libraries |
| Depositing User: | David Berry |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Jan 2016 12:17 |
| Last Modified: | 31 Aug 2017 20:19 |
| URI: | http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/59478 |