23/3 Training Days and Hours (Training will be online)

Course Name: Introduction to Digital Humanities

Educator: Assoc. Dr. Yunus Ugur

Lesson Time: 5 February 2024 - Monday 09.00-10.30

Course Name: Introduction to Digital Theology Research

Educator: Dr. Res. See. Tuba Nur Saraçoğlu

Lesson Time: 5 February 2024 - Monday

10.45-12.15

Course Name: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

Educator: Prof. Dr. Hasan Güçlü

Lesson Time: 5 February 2024 - Monday

13.00-14.30

Introductory Courses and Project Application Example course

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Modules

Coğrafi Bilgi Sistemleri

These are the methods used to map textual, visual, and auditory information and materials that can be linked to space, and to analyze and visualize geographical information with its historical processes and materials. GIS is also used in prominent projects in the field of historical studies in Turkey. The importance of GIS for Islamic sciences comes from the fact that it enables the geographical processing of information scattered in the sources, interpretation within the historical process, determination of regional differences, and visualization of written material. In this way, it is possible to create an infrastructure that will feed the research to be carried out on topics such as mapping the mobility of ulema, spatial circulation of texts/books, cultural inventory of structures related to the history of institutions, regional historiography, and regional hadith. Within the scope of the project, ArcGIS, one of the most advanced programs used in the field of GIS, will be trained.

Social Network Analysis

Social network analysis is the modeling and analysis of interrelated complex structures based on graph theory, a mathematical theory. Thanks to this analysis method, the main actors of interrelated structures and the influence of one actor on others can be measured in several different categories. The centrality measures used in graph theory enable mobility in the social field to be analyzed mathematically and modeled by reducing it to nodes and graphs. The significance of network analyses for IR and theological studies is that they enable us to uncover the networks of relationships embedded in texts and to reread intellectual history (e.g. identifying the flow of knowledge among the ulema through the identification of circles of scholarship) and to provide multi-structural analyses (scholars, works, institutions, etc.). In addition to Pajek, Gephi, and NodeXL, which include the mathematical background of social network analyses, it can also be processed with packages related to social network analyses in programming languages such as Python and R. Within the scope of the project, the application of social network analyses in Pajek will be included.

https://www.digitalottomanstudies.com/post/tarihi-i-li%C5%9Fkileri-yeniden-okumak-gephi-ile-sosyal-a%C4%9F-analizi?lang=tr

Artificial intelligence

Research on large language models with Artificial Intelligence applications is gaining momentum day by day. Artificial intelligence tools, which are used in many areas from data preparation, data analysis, and visualization to code writing, are also used in the field of Islamic sciences/theology. The adaptation of the field of artificial intelligence and its sub-branches, which form the basis of the DH field, to social scientific studies is also increasing in importance day by day. In this context, a four-block module was prepared within the scope of the project.

Text Analyzes

Text analysis is basically an analysis method based on word and letter counting, relationships between words, and analysis of texts coded with different elements. Since pre-modern sources in the field of theology are largely based on texts, digitizing them, coding and classifying their contents in accordance with the purpose of the study, offers the opportunity to access a data set that has not been obtained before in terms of the field, analyze it and generate new questions. Text analysis methods of Kuramer-Pro and KITAB projects, which are among the most fundamental studies in the field, will be handled practically within the scope of the project.

https://kitab-project.org/New-KITAB-visualizations/