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The data sprint approach: exploring the field of digital humanities through Amazon’s Application Programming Interface (API)

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posted on 2023-06-09, 00:10 authored by David BerryDavid Berry, Erik Borra, Anne Helmond, Jean Christophe Plantin, Jill Walker Rettberg
This paper documents the results of an intensive "data sprint" method for undertaking data and algorithmic work using Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). We develop a method to map the fields of Digital Humanities and Electronic Literature based on title recommendations from the largest online bookseller, Amazon, by retrieving similar purchased items from the Amazon API. A first step shows the overall Amazon recommendation network for Digital Humanities and allows us to detect clusters, aligned fields and bridging books. In a second step we looked into four country-specific Amazon stores (Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.fr and Amazon.de) to investigate the specificities of the Digital Humanities in these four countries. The third step is a network of all books suggested for the Electronic Literature field in the four Amazon stores we searched, which offers a comparison to the field of Digital Humanities.

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Publication status

  • Published

Journal

Digital Humanities Quarterly

ISSN

1938-4122

Publisher

Alliance of Digital Humanities

Issue

4

Volume

9

Department affiliated with

  • Media and Film Publications

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  • Sussex Humanities Lab Publications

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Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2016-01-29

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2016-01-29

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