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Record W4391302151 · doi:10.16995/dscn.9952

Towards Acknowledgement and Accreditation of Digital Labour in Digital Humanities: A Case Study from Emerging Indian Digital Humanities Projects

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Apsara Bala, Jyothi Justin, Nirmala Menon

Bibliographic record

VenueDigital Studies / Le champ numérique · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicIntellectual Property Law
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer science

Abstract

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Digital labour (DL) in the context of digital humanities (DH) broadly comprises the process of data collection, curation, analysis, and visualization, leading to the creation of a final project. DL, when analyzed from an Indian DH perspective, consists of humanities scholars acquiring additional technical knowledge required for the research, finding suitable resources (technical and otherwise), infrastructures, and collaborating with other disciplines, etc. This DL, together with manual labour (ML) of writing about outcomes (Anderson et al. 2016), is complicated and time-consuming for DH scholars. Yet DL gets recognized due to the nascent state of DH in the subcontinent. Despite the evident DL involved in the creation and successful proliferation of DH projects, it is seldom addressed in academic scholarship (Anderson et al. 2016) and even more rarely in Indian DH academia. The lack of proper infrastructure (Anderson et al. 2016) and deficiency in technical knowledge (Thangavel and Menon 2020) have resulted in a greater DL among the DH practitioners in India when compared to their peers elsewhere, yet it has gone unrecognized, given the lack of literature and research on DL in Indian DH. The existing resistance in humanities towards accommodating the new approaches of DH (Greetham 2012) has made DL manifold. In an effort to recognize DL in DH, this paper attempts a definition of DL in DH, especially in the Indian context, followed by a broad classification of digital labourers (DLers) in DH in India. The paper utilizes a case study of selected DH projects in India to understand the gaps in recognizing the DLers and DL in Indian DH projects, especially the DL of students and researchers. The findings from the case study further lead to the proposal of a possible framework to address the emergence and evolving nature of DL in DH, as well as to compensate for the same appropriately. Le travail numérique (TN) dans le contexte des humanités numériques (HN) comprend largement le processus de collecte, de conservation, d'analyse et de visualisation des données, menant à la création d'un projet final. Lorsqu'il est analysé du point de vue des HN indiennes, le travail numérique consiste pour les chercheurs en sciences humaines à acquérir des connaissances techniques supplémentaires nécessaires à la recherche, à trouver des ressources appropriées (techniques et autres), des infrastructures et à collaborer avec d'autres disciplines, etc. Ce TN, ainsi que le travail manuel (TM) de rédaction des résultats (Anderson et al. 2016), est compliqué et prend du temps pour les chercheurs en HN. Pourtant, le TN est reconnu en raison de l'état naissant des HN dans le sous-continent. Malgré l'implication évidente du TN dans la création et la prolifération réussie des projets d'humanités numériques, il est rarement abordé dans les travaux universitaires (Anderson et al. 2016) et encore plus rarement dans les universités indiennes spécialisées dans les HN. Le manque d'infrastructures appropriées (Anderson et al. 2016) et les lacunes en matière de connaissances techniques (Thangavel et Menon 2020) ont entraîné une plus grande TN parmi les praticiens des HN en Inde par rapport à leurs pairs ailleurs, mais cela n'a pas été reconnu, étant donné le manque de littérature et de recherche sur le TN dans le domaine des HN en Inde. La résistance existante dans les sciences humaines à l'égard de l'adaptation aux nouvelles approches de HN (Greetham 2012) a multiplié les TN. Dans un effort pour reconnaître les TN au sein des HN, cet article tente de définir les TN pour les HN, en particulier dans le contexte indien, suivi d'une classification générale des travailleurs numériques (en anglais "digital labourers") dans les HN en Inde. L'article utilise une étude de cas de projets HN sélectionnés en Inde pour comprendre les lacunes dans la reconnaissance des travailleurs numériques et des TN dans les projets HN indiens, en particulier les TN des étudiants et des chercheurs. Les résultats de l'étude de cas conduisent en outre à la proposition d'un cadre possible pour aborder l'émergence et la nature évolutive des TN dans HN, ainsi que pour compenser ces mêmes TN de manière appropriée.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.007
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.017
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.984
Threshold uncertainty score0.044

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0070.017
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0030.005
Science and technology studies0.0160.010
Scholarly communication0.0100.006
Open science0.0040.013
Research integrity0.0030.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.076
GPT teacher head0.326
Teacher spread0.249 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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