This is the teaching material for a DH2024 pre-conference workshop on the socio-epistemic networks (SEN) framework for studying the evolution of knowledge over time. It walks through automating data extraction from historical sources, exploring language-based change in historical documents with text …

DH Inside Out was DHTech’s mini-conference at DH2024, flipping the usual conference format to foreground technical depth alongside research context. At the August 5, 2024 session in Arlington, Virginia, I moderated Session 1 and later presented TippingPigs — Serious games as communication …

The Historical Letters model reconstructs communication and archiving processes in the Republic of Letters — the 15th- to 17th-century form of scholarly exchange — including a pruning process that simulates the loss of letters over time. This document is the full ODD-protocol (Objectives, Design, …

Tipping Pigs 3 casts the player as guardian of a Polynesian island, balancing a pig herd against the health of its environment. Send pigs to neighboring islands, grow the herd, or cull it — but push the ecosystem too far and it crosses a tipping point, after which recovery becomes very hard. The …

Focusing on network analysis, co-citation networks, and topic modelling, this chapter introduces the socio-epistemic networks (SEN) framework for studying how historical knowledge systems form and change. Applied to two case studies — transnational scientific practices of Polish migrants and the …

Rather than just describing how knowledge accumulated in the Sphaera corpus of early modern astronomy textbooks, this paper models it: connections between more than 350 textbook editions are arranged into a four-layer semantic network, and the resulting model aims to better understand — and …