近二三十年來，數位科技的進步大大促進了各種不同知識學門在研究上的可能性。由於電腦比對、計算能力可以快速地處理大量資料，使得之前很多光靠人力難以進行的研究議題 ，可以藉著電腦來完成。在這一波新的數位工具風潮中，台灣人文學科的跟進並沒有比較慢，但在研究工具的開發上則比較遲緩，直到近十年，所謂的數位人文才越來越興盛。本課程的目的，在於讓沒有從事數位人文學習的修課同學有初步的體驗，了解文字、數字、表格和圖表之間的轉換；另外一個重點則在於，利用Google Earth來進行資料整理。前面的一個重點，在於文本分析；後面的一個重點，則在於簡單地理資訊系統(Geographical Information System, GIS)的使用。修習完本課程的同學，可以建立自己的全文檢索、進行初步的文本分析，並將分析結果轉換成數字與圖表，以視覺化分析結果。Google Earth的使用，則可以將空間的思考帶入人文學的學習中，立體化文字資料與空間的關係，並且可以和田野調查與圖片（包括舊照片與舊地圖）結合。 

In the past two to three decades, the advancement of digital technology has significantly enhanced the possibilities for various knowledge disciplines in research. Due to the rapid processing capabilities of computers for data matching and computation, many research topics that were previously challenging to handle solely with human effort can now be completed with the aid of computers. In this new wave of digital tool trends, Taiwan's humanities disciplines have been keeping up, but the development of research tools has been relatively slow. It was only in the past decade that the so-called digital humanities began to flourish.

 

The purpose of this course is to provide students who have not been exposed to digital humanities with an initial experience and understanding of the conversion between texts, numbers, tables, and charts. Another focus is on using Google Earth for data organization. The first part emphasizes text analysis, while the second part focuses on the use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for basic geographic information. Upon completing this course, students will be able to create their own full-text searches, conduct basic text analysis, and transform analysis results into numerical and graphical formats for visualization. The use of Google Earth will introduce spatial thinking into the study of humanities, allowing the visualization of the relationship between textual data and space, and its combination with field surveys and images (including old photographs and maps).

 

Through the exploration of humanities using digital tools, we can quickly grasp the general appearance of a book or several books. We can also use this preliminary processing to rapidly retrieve relevant literature for more detailed readings.

  

 

 

 

  

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