'Capturing Displaced Persons' Agency by Modelling Their Life Events: A Mixed Method Digital Humanities Approach

O. Berg
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The International Tracing Service archives offer process-generated documents from resettlement programs for displaced persons (DP) after World War II. This paper addresses two key challenges to ongoing research based on those archival holdings: the generation of data; and the visual representation of that data in geographic information systems. Digital history offers the opportunity to go beyond case studies and use the wealth of process-generated documents as se- rial sources for algorithm-based analysis. However, data in that form does not exist as such, and thus needs to be generated – a process that implies interpre- tative acts such as abstraction, normalization, and trans-coding, which are shaped by the character of digital media. Can modeling a DP’s life into a series of events, and digitally processing the resultant data, help to find out more about the agency of DPs negotiating their destiny with the authorities? If the mostly hidden and implicit configurations of digital knowledge production are thoughtfully considered and geostatistical analysis is combined with close readings of selected source documents, hermeneutic and quantitative ap- proaches can be reconciled via digital history. This mixed method approach has implications for research culture and the publication of such data.
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“捕捉流离失所者”机构建模他们的生活事件:一种混合方法数字人文方法
国际寻人服务档案提供了二战后流离失所者(DP)重新安置项目过程生成的文件。本文解决了基于这些档案馆藏的正在进行的研究的两个关键挑战:数据的生成;以及地理信息系统中数据的可视化表示。数字历史提供了超越案例研究的机会,并使用丰富的过程生成文档作为基于算法的分析的原始来源。然而,这种形式的数据并不存在,因此需要生成——这一过程意味着抽象、规范化和转换编码等解释性行为,这些行为是由数字媒体的特征形成的。将DP的生活建模为一系列事件,并对结果数据进行数字化处理,是否有助于了解更多关于DP与当局谈判其命运的代理?如果仔细考虑数字知识生产中最隐蔽和隐含的配置,并将地质统计分析与选定源文件的仔细阅读相结合,那么解释学和定量方法可以通过数字历史进行协调。这种混合方法对研究文化和此类数据的发表具有影响。
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