Grasping the Materializations of Practices in Digital Humanities - A Semantic Research Environment for Analyzing Exam Grading Practices in German High Schools

Abstract

Recently, practice theory has been established alongside humanities and social sciences in historical research and has aligned analysis according to materializations of loosely interlinked arrangements of practices, materialities, and actors (cf. Reh, 2014). While digital humanities have proven its great capacity to deal with massive data (distant reading), the digital enhancement of qualitative approaches is lacking (cf. Drucker, 2012). This desideratum is addressed in this project which uses a semantic graph to create a linked web and offering tools for combining qualitative and quantitative analysis.